How to Make a Pizza Dough Ball
Learn to Make Pizza Dough - the right way!
Probably the most important part of making a great pizza is making great dough. You can get my best pizza dough recipe, along with my exact directions for making perfect pizza dough for a great pizza crust.
After kneading, you want to form a dough ball that looks like the one in the picture. You DON'T want a sticky dough. It should be a little dry to the touch, but not so dry that the flour is not kneaded in well.
Making good dough is possible on your first try, but you will find that (as with anything else) experience is your best teacher. If you don't get the result that you expect on your first try, then don't give up... just make another pizza, and you will soon learn how the dough should look and feel. That is when you know that you are an expert on making pizza dough, and no longer a beginner.
We usually make more than one pizza at a time. We just make a stack of containers like this to allow the pizza dough to rise.
The time for rising doesn't have to be exact. You want the dough to double itself, at least. I'd say about 1 1/2 - 2 hours approximately. The dough will rise fine at room temperature, but there is a way to hurry up the rising process.
Tip to Get Your Pizza Dough to Rise Faster
Put the dough in a warm place to hurry it up. In the summer time, I sometimes place it outside. Another trick is to put it in a barely warm oven. Be very careful that the oven is not hot. I turn the oven on for 1 or 2 minutes and then turn it off. Then I place my dough container on a cool cookie sheet on the oven rack. I always leave the oven light on when I do this so that no one comes along an inadvertently preheats the oven while my plastic containers are sitting in there. I learned this the hard way after losing my dough and containers because they melted away in a hot oven. Live and learn.
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