Day 124 - Friday 17th July 2020

Location: London, UK

COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak

Lockdown

We made pizzas today.

I didn't take a photo because it was not a pretty sight. Pizza dough makers on YouTube will make stretching the dough look all very easy and straightforward but IT ISN'T!

First error - not enough flouring of surfaces and hands.

Second error - exacerbated by the first error, should have put the stretched dough onto the tray it was going into the oven on before adding toppings. Some suggest you heat the tray up first, from pizza #3 I know this didn't make a difference.

It was pretty much impossible to neatly slide the pizza onto the tray, so I made mine a calzone which made it slightly easier. Other members of the house ended up scooping it as a big ol' mess onto the tray and throwing it into the oven...

However, even with our hole-y / calzone / piles of dough and toppings not looking quite the way we anticipated they tasted YUM! So will be making this again, with a few preparation revisions!

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