Dough Press - Pizza Bob

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Pizza Bob:

Nicke,

Believe it or not, I’ll go even one step further. I buy douhgballs for my garlic knots and backup crusts. However, for my normal pizza, I use a pre-sheeted self-rising crust (can’t afford a mixer right now and don’t have a dough press) that raise my cost significantly on the pizzas. I am thinking about buying a manual dough press as my experience with handtossing was less than solid. Do you use a dough press, and if so, are you happy with it? Thanks.

Bob

I hopped to a new thread so as not to pirate that one.

I have been hand stretching since we started 3+years ago. A sheeter for our volume of business is years to Return on Investment (ROI). I would have to find a place to put it, schedule time to use it in the prep process and so on. We stretch and slap manually.

It does take a longer training and practice period for people to be able to manage that skill and technique, but that is what I am willing to do for now. If our volume jumps dramatically, I might see trying a sheeter to “open” the dough up for final slap and stretch. I don’t want to use it as exclusinve dough handling as it will tend to de-gass the dough and make it tough and chewy . . . not the profile I am looking for in my pies.