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Chicago Thin Crust Pizza

Luis Perez · gozney.com · 2024 · Original

Chicago Taverninferred from the title

DietNot vegetarian: cooked chilli honey sausage, pork mince.

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Chicago Tavern style, one of 22 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.

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Chicago Tavern (Chicago): cracker-thin, cut into squares (not wedges), rolled with rolling pin, what Chicagoans actually eat

Tradition: 45 to 55% hydration · 475 to 525°F bake (this recipe: 660°F)

Baker's percentages

Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.

Dough not parsable from the source, so baker's percentages are not available.

Process

Bake temp

660°F / 349°C

Bake time

2 to 3 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

stone

Ingredients (8)

  • saltsea salt150g
  • sugarwhite sugar150g
  • sugarhoney25g
  • cheese mozzarellashredded aged mozzarella100g
  • sauce tomatocrushed tomatoes120g
  • sugarcooked chilli honey sausage60g
  • cheese otherPecorino-Romanon/a
  • oilOlive oiln/a

Toppings (19)

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

  • over cheeseRecipe for
  • over cheeseup to step 7.
  • over cheeseHungarian wax peppers225g
  • over cheesedistilled white vinegar
  • over cheesePinch of turmeric
  • over cheese1 bay leaf
  • over cheesepeppercorns1/2 tsp · 2.1g
  • over cheesepork mince450g
  • over cheese½ tsp black pepper1/2 tsp · 2.1g
  • over cheese½ tsp garlic powder1/2 tsp · 2.1g
  • over cheese½ tsp onion powder1/2 tsp · 2.1g
  • over cheesedried oregano2 tsp · 1g
  • over cheesefennel seeds2 tsp · 8.4g
  • over cheeseCalabrian chillies20g
  • over cheesearlic cloves
  • over cheese½ shallot
  • over cheesedry white wine
  • over cheesepicked peppers60g
  • post bakeShredded basil

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