Deep Dish Sourdough Pizza (Detroit & Sicilian)

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Detroitinferred from the title

DietNot vegetarian: at least 24 slices of pepperoni. Reviewed: pepperoni; mozzarella; provolone.

Against 5,130 pizza recipes

Detroit style, one of 55 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.

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 · 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

200g

Water

192g

Hydration

n/a

Salt

3.0%

Yeast

n/a

Oil

Sauce

370g

Cheese

400g

Dough weight

448g

Hydration above 95% is almost certainly a cups-to-grams parse error, so this dough sits out the charts.

Bake temp

500°F / 260°C

Bake time

15 to 20 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

blue steel pan

Bulk

flourbread flour200g
waterwater192g
yeastsourdough starter50g
salt6g salt6g
flour67% bread flourn/a
flour33% whole grain flourn/a
water64% watern/a
salt2% saltn/a
oil2-3 Tbsp light vegetable or olive oil for the pann/a
cheese mozzarellamozzarella cheese chunks240g
cheese otherprovolone cheese chunks80g
cheese othercheddar cheese chunks80g
sauce tomatocrushed fennel seeds1 tsp
sauce tomatomarinara sauce I use the NYTimes "Classic Marinara" recipe with the addition of a 6 oz. can of tomato paste to thicken. You can freeze any extra sauce.370 oz · 370g

Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.

over cheeseSee the NOTES for ingredient amounts for 11x17 and 9x13 pans
over cheeseRecipe for 10x14 inch pan548g
over cheesefresh-milled white Sonora wheat berries or whole grain sprouted hard red spring wheat berries100g
over cheeseBaker's Percentages
over cheese17% starter
over cheeseToppings and Assembly
over cheesedried oregano1 tsp · 0.5g
over cheesedried basil1 tsp · 0.5g
over cheesedrained and sliced pepperoncini1/4 cup · 50g
over cheesered pepper flakes1/2 tsp · 2.1g
over cheeseAt least 24 slices of pepperoni

Same style and topping profile. This dough's numbers did not parse, so they cannot be matched.