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Step 5Making the Dough: The Final Countdown
1. Flour up your pizza paddle or counter or whatever work surface you want to use.
2. Take the dough out of the fridge.
3. Turn the dough onto the floured board and fold it over 3 or 4 times.
4. Form into a ball. I use the method Alton Brown describes in the previously mentioned Good Eats episode.
5. Divide the big dough ball into four pieces, and make them into balls. Each dough ball is enough for one crust. So if you're only making one pizza, you can put the other dough-balls back into the fridge. I sometimes put them in a plastic container separated by parchment or wax paper. You can also spray the inside of a ziploc bag with cooking spray and keep the dough that way.
6. Cover the dough-balls with a cloth or tea towel and let rise for 2 hours. Make sure the cloth is coated with some flour first, or it might stick to the dough.
2. Take the dough out of the fridge.
3. Turn the dough onto the floured board and fold it over 3 or 4 times.
4. Form into a ball. I use the method Alton Brown describes in the previously mentioned Good Eats episode.
5. Divide the big dough ball into four pieces, and make them into balls. Each dough ball is enough for one crust. So if you're only making one pizza, you can put the other dough-balls back into the fridge. I sometimes put them in a plastic container separated by parchment or wax paper. You can also spray the inside of a ziploc bag with cooking spray and keep the dough that way.
6. Cover the dough-balls with a cloth or tea towel and let rise for 2 hours. Make sure the cloth is coated with some flour first, or it might stick to the dough.
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Sep 5, 2009. 7:13 AMkwthemale
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I got to this stage and the dough was just really sticky and about impossible to work with. Any ideas as to what I did wrong?
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Jun 20, 2011. 4:05 PMcnewman2
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put olive oil on your fingers so it doesn't stick to you
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