HELP I'm in the kitchen

[CrealCritter]

So according to the menu tonight is pizza, which my wife always makes! Well last night I had to take her to the hospital because of some girl problems which turned out to be UTI whatever that is. Anyways she's feeling better now she was in a lot of pain. I have a bit of a problem though... According to my wife I just follow the recipe in her cookbook to make pizza dough. Ok I did that it looks nice and all but Lord that stuff makes a.mess. My mother in law was over here when I making the dough and told me to oil up a couple of bowls and cover with plastic wrap and place in a pre heated clothes dryer to rise. Ok well I did that and now I have like a dough volcano

I don't know what the purpose of this rising thing is all about but I hope I did this right. My wife is sleeping and I don't want to wake her up because I'm dumb... And I don't want to call my mother in law because, well she created this dough volcano in the first place.

So all the dough that "grew" like magic in the dryer, I folded back into the bowl. Not knowing what else to do... I took it all out of the bowl and plopped onto pizza pan oiled with olive oil. It was hard to do but I made it look like a pizza crust and put it into the refrigerator. Stupid dough doesn't want to stay put it's like some strange kind of eleastic magic. I hope it stops growing it was pretty rediculas what that magic dryer did.

I'll start assembling and baking the pizzas in a couple of hours. Did I do right? I mean if heat makes a dough volcano, then maybe cold will stop it???

 

[CrealCritter]

Score thank you all!

Wife said this is g o o o d... So happy she liked it. Poor girl hasn't eat anything since yesterday morning.

Crust cooked up fluffy and soft

 

[CrealCritter]

Score again

 

[wyoDreamer]

It looks great!!
I always let my pizza crust rise in the fridge so it doesn't go all "Volcano" on me, but it looks like you are doing great. Just start your oven, put on the toppings and bake!

I like sausage, onion, mushroom and extra cheese on mine...

Hope your wife is better soon. You are a peach for making supper.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

You should be fine. BTW, the next time your MIL tells you to put dough in the dryer to rise, you might ask her if she plans to buy you a new dryer! If that dough escapes the bowl, and oozes through the dryer holes, you're gonna have a huge mess on your hands!

I turn on my gas oven for a minute or two to heat it up just a bit, then turn it off... to provide a warm, safe spot to let my yeast dough rise. Think: baby bottle warm.

Any yeast dough will respond to the temp. Warm... up to a point... will make it rise faster. Cold will slow it down. So, if you have the dough spread in the pan, resting in the fridge, that's great. At this point, I'd take it out about 1/2 hour before I wanted to cook it... unless it's already getting puffy in the fridge. You want a bit of puff. That will give the dough it's nice soft in the middle texture instead of being tough, like a cracker. As for the dough acting like a giant elastic, that's the function of the gluten. The more gluten, the more elastic like it becomes. The way to work around that: stretch it, let it rest, stretch it again. There is a "sweet point" with dough where the gluten is "broken enough" that it is not quite so springy.

I'm glad your wife's UTI was caught before it made her extremely sick. In addition to the antibiotics and LOTS of liquids to drink, I prescribe lots of sweet TLC by hubby. But, it looks like you are already doing that.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I am not a great cook. I never learned much before I moved out on my own. My husband is a better cook than me in a lot of ways. But baking, that I'm not terrible at!

 

[baymule]

Nothing beats home made pizza. When I worked and got home late, sometimes I made pizzas using flour tortillas smeared with spaghetti sauce. Then toppings of choice. Fast, easy and good.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I still love English muffin pizzas. Easy lunch for the kids (and me!)

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I've never made pizza dough, but I have made bread. It rises you punch it down it rises again and then you bake it.

You got the rise and now you've got it flat and on the pan and refrigerated - that ought to work? Maybe? Heck, cover that crust up with sauce, meat and cheese and toss it in the oven. I'll betcha it'll be fine.

Be sure to show us pics of the finished product.

 

[CrealCritter]

Cook whenever you want dinner looks good!

Phew... Thanks