It is the third Saturday of October. Pizza day is normally on a Sunday but this week Erika came down for a visit and Terri asked if I would like to make some pizza. I cannot pass up on an opportunity to make pizza so this week was a Saturday instead.

Everyone wanted pizza so I increased the dough recipe up to 1,500 g to get around nine dough balls. I didn’t have enough all-purpose flour and the last 100 g was bread flour instead. I didn’t notice any difference in the final product.

I tried to weigh the dough before portioning them into balls but the dough blob was too big to fit on the scale. It would keep flopping over the sides before I could get a reading. This was the blob after cutting off the first ball:

I portioned them into 275 g each but the last ball ended up being 15 g short. I’ll use the smaller one for practicing my acrobatic skills. I grouped the dough into two different shifts. The first one had four dough balls that were left out on the counter and covered with a damp towel:

The remaining dough balls were placed back into the fridge for a hour before allowing them to come up to room temperature:

This works really well to make sure the dough balls are in a workable state and not completely blown out for the pizzas being made later in the day. When I was a younger kid, I worked at two different pizza shops and I cannot remember how dough was managed throughout the day in this way. I should have paid more attention to what was going on.

The first pizza out of the oven is always a cheese pizza to make sure everything is tasting correctly:

That one could have been stretched more and the shape was a little off but it sure did taste good. The rest of the pizzas requested were either pepperoni or cheese. I made seven pizzas and some cheese sticks overall. We had this carry-out order for Ben to take the pizza back to his room:

I was trying to talk someone into making a delivery and then asking for a tip.

With the following pizza, I got distracted and forgot to rotate it around half way through cooking:

The crust at the top is a bit overdone and the crust on the bottom could have used some more baking time. Even with the convection bake setting turned on, those pizzas need to be moved around.

I ran out of the Boar’s Head pepperoni for Zach’s pizza and opened up a new pack of Mama Mary’s. I’ve never used that brand before. I picked that up for the simple reason that the grocery store was out of the Boar’s Head brand. Zach said they had a spicier taste to them. I’ll give them a try next weekend and see if I like them or not.

The cheese sticks were covered in olive oil and made with the remaining cheese that was left. Which wasn’t much. I started cleaning up after that and when I went to grab a cheese stick to eat, they were all gone. So I don’t know how they turned out. Apparently they needed some more cheese.

After pizza eating was done, we played a game of Cover Your A$$ets and I guess I didn’t cover them well enough because I didn’t win. Its a fun enough and casual game that is good to play.