How to Make Homemade Detroit-Style Pizza
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2021 · Original
Detroitas labeled by the source
DietNot vegetarian: thinly sliced pepperoni. Reviewed: pepperoni; cheddar; honey.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
Detroit style, 78% hydration: wetter than 80% of the 1,480 doughs that parse, baked at 500°F, hotter than 80% of recipes that state an oven.
Detroit (Detroit): Wisconsin brick cheese to the edges (frico crust), racing stripes of sauce applied after bake, 8x10 or 10x14 blue steel pan
Tradition: 65 to 75% hydration (this recipe: 78%) · 475 to 525°F bake (this recipe: 500°F)
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
543g
Water
425g
Hydration
78.3%
Salt
1.1%
Yeast
n/a
Oil
0.9%
Sauce
123g
Cheese
284g
Dough weight
1251g
Process
Bake details not stated on the source page.
Ingredients (12)
- flourbread flour288g
- saltkosher salt6g
- yeastinstant yeast2g
- watercold water240g
- yeastactive100g
- waterwater185g
- oilolive oil1 tsp · 5g
- cheese otherpre-shredded Cheddar6 oz · 170g
- cheese mozzarellapre-shredded low-moisture4 oz · 113g
- dairy doughhand-grated low-moisture6 oz · 170g
- sauce tomatotomato sauce1/2 cup · 123g
- sugarlight drizzle honeyn/a
Toppings (4)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheesesoftened butter1 tbsp · 14g
- over cheesethinly sliced pepperoni2 oz · 56.7g
- over cheesethinly sliced red onion1/2 cup · 100g
- over cheesepickled jalapeños or other pickled peppers1/4 cup · 50g
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