Pizza

Confusing, as on bakery bits they mention that white flour need ~2.3 litres for each 1 kg. Which would be about 57L

It was definitely a tight fit, but I knocked the barrel a few times as I decanted to compress the flour and that just made enough room. Maybe because 00 is so fine? Worked for me though.

Yeah, good shout. Annoyingly I can't seem to find any specialist Italian wholesalers local to me (West Mids) other than one that's out of Caputo and fior de latte, at least online; will have to give them a ring and see when they reckon they'll have stock back in.

If you find an Italian wholesaler post their details. Am just north of gloucester.

Planning on doing a few pizza’s for the neighbours soon, how long will a balled piece of dough last before it over proves?

The only Midlands specialist Italian one I've found is A. di Maria & Son in Coventry (the company I found in Wolverhampton seems to be frozen stuff only), but it looks like Mercanti in Bristol delivers as far north as Birmingham, so you'd be covered? There's also La Bottega in Bath, but I don't know how far out they'll deliver.

anyone got any tips for fior di latte in [south east] london?

got enough flour to last the year, so don't think i could manage any of the wholesale minimum order values alone

In the fridge, a few days. Regularly make pizza dough then have pizza three nights in a row. It obviously degrades over those days. But still makes perfectly fine pizza.

There is (was) one in wolverhampton that even bottled their own Marsala....well labelled.
Gimme a minute.

Thanks, that would be great. There's Corbelli's, who are a wine wholesaler and run a little deli that's only AFAIK open weekends - suppose it's worth giving them a ring and seeing whether they can get sacks of flour.

Thanks :)

It is Corbellis I was on about. Have been looking at google maps as I can remember the way to drive there. Then work out where they went. The times I went there it was straight from the warehouse and you bought by the box of pasta, you phoned in to order things like fresh ricotta and mascarpone a then told when the truck was coming in. Fond/strange memories.

did a steak on Sunday as well, Was 1kg of bone in rib, 8 minutes to get to rare and crunchy on the outside, sadly it didn’t last long enough for pictures.

Watched an episode of chef on Netflix on pizzana somewhere in USA and he was making ciabatta with pizza dough and just taking a dough ball and stretching end over end so had to give that a go on Monday, was lush with some oil and balsamic!

Cool, will investigate. Think they used to be in Wolverhampton proper, but moved to Willenhall. Within cargo bike range of me too...

Pizzaiolo attempt during quarantine

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I've made it my holy mission to get back the administration fee the estate agent of our previous apartment illegally charged. I'm mentioning it here because the fee is the exact sum of an Ooni Koda.

I'd be most happy to do a deal for some of your excess produce. I'm in E17 so can easily collect.

A noble cause indeed.

Yes.

Would also buy a little off you if you’re worried about not using it all. Where did you buy it all from?

Also in E17.

@ChasnotRobert @chrisbmx116 there's no danger of not using it but can help out if desperate? I used https://www.marcoalimentari.com/ really quick delivery and they've just reduced their minimum spend from 200 down to 70. With the amount of pizza folk on here group forum orders don't seem like a bad idea going forward.

Thanks! The Mozzarella is what I struggle to find, I have some fancy stuff from Waitrose but its not quite the right stuff (more white and milky, like on fancy margaritas, Buffalo?).

It would be great to do a LFGSS Notion page on Pizza, I feel there have been a lot of learnings in this thread and we could prob distill them for quick reference.

The wholesaler was out of the fior di latte cut into sticks that everyone has been talking about but they had these 1kg blocks, I'm assuming they're same? Same brand same ingredients but they're a little more expensive than the cut version for some reason. Having pizza tonight (if the baby allows it) will report the results.

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Top shout on that, ordered yesterday and arrived today. Had my doubts when I saw it but as you said it's bang on. Guess I'm buying flour in 25kg bags from now on!

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