When you really feel like pizza at home! Try this Amazing Neapolitan Style Pizza

The closest thing you will find to a Neapolitan pizza in a domestic home oven. Normally, to achieve the perfect pizza base Neapolitan style, you need a very hot oven such as a powerful commercial electric or a woodfired oven. Pizzas should be cooked in 60-90 seconds in a 430C°-480C° (800F°-900F180 °) oven, that is hot!!! Domestic home ovens are lucky to get half that amount of heat. If you’re lucky enough to own a pizza oven, this recipe is still an excellent pizza base to use in super hot ovens. You will be amazed at the results, in any type of oven! So, what makes a good Neapolitan pizza base? It is the raised swollen edges, softness in the crust, fluffy texture with toasted spots on the outside. It should not weigh more than 280grams 35cm in diameter and be approx. centimetres thick. Now don’t worry too much about specifications, this is for home use it, doesn’t matter, it’s just a guideline. For the base, I use a starter called “poolish”, made from mixed yeas
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