Does your specific type of pizza lend itself to the characteristics imparted by a dough sheeter? I wrote an article on this very topic, comparing the finished crust characteristics when the dough was opened into skins using the different methods (sheeting, pressing, tossing (hand) and I may have even discussed the combination method which we used for training purposes where the dough is partially opened to size using the dough sheeter (about 2-inches less than finished diameter) and then finished opening to full diameter by hand tossing. The results are very good with much of the hand opened crumb structure characteristics but without the uneven spots across the skin and it is fast and easy to learn too, that’s why we developed the procedure for our “newbe” students.
Tom Lehmann/The Dough Doctor