Bec's Table/Bec's Perfect Pizza Guide (Home Pizza Ovens)

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Bec's Perfect Pizza Guide (Home Pizza Ovens)

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  • 24 Lessons

Learn my pastry chef tips for making light, airy pizzas in the Ovana or a similar home pizza oven. I’ll take you through the dough, shaping, toppings and cooking, with videos, downloadable recipes and help for those moments when your dough won’t behave.

Contents

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Start here: Lesson 1.
Preview

2 Choosing your Ingredients

Flour:
Bakers malt or sugar:
Salt:

3 Choosing and using semolina

Semolina:

4 Pizza dough recipe and full method

 

Full recipe: Bec's favourite Pizza base for the Ovana Pizza oven
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Downloadable: Bec's Perfect Pizza Recipe Base quick guide
Garlic Naan

5 Watch how I handle the dough

There are plenty of pizza recipes out there that work just fine, but giving your dough time to develop fully is what makes the real difference to your results.

Check out this video for my tips

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Video: How to work your Pizza Dough

6 Pizza sauce

This is my simple pizza sauce

Tomato Sauce ingredients:
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Downloadable: Bec's Perfect Pizza Sauce Recipe

7 Pizza topping ideas

Pizza Topping Ideas:
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Download: Pizza toppings often made at the Cooking school in live classes.

8 Getting your pizza oven ready

The Ovana and Large Wood Fired Ovens
Preview
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Video: What happens inside the Pizza Oven
Cooking your pizza

9 Getting the pizza onto the peel

How do I stop my Pizza from sticking to the Peel?
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How to stop your Pizza sticking to the paddle or peel

10 Cooking your pizza

The sections lesson will help you understand the process we use.

Cooking your pizza

11 Storing your pizza dough

This section is where I share all my pizza tips, and it will keep growing over time. If you have a question that isn’t covered here, please ask, I’ll add the answer for everyone to see.

Storage of raw pizza dough

12 Troubleshooting and pizza stone care.

Common things that can go wrong when making pizza and how to avoid them. 
Sticky dough, springing back and tearing
Doughy, yeasty or soggy pizza dough
Looking after your pizza stone

Congratulations: You're at the end of our Perfect Pizza Guide

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