Thin-Crust Pizza
PJ Hamel · kingarthurbaking.com · Original
Thin Crustinferred from the title
DietVegetarian. Not vegan: sliced mozzarella cheese. Reviewed: mozzarella; dry milk.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
Thin Crust style, 57% hydration: drier than 81% of the 1,480 doughs that parse, baked at 425°F, hotter than 35% of recipes that state an oven.
Thin Crust (United States (generic)): title-asserted thin crust with no regional claim: low-to-moderate hydration, often rolled, crisp base
Tradition: 50 to 62% hydration (this recipe: 57%) · 450 to 550°F bake (this recipe: 425°F)
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes. Hydration counts the water in this dough's milk or beer (about 88% and 92% of their weight), as bakers do.
Flour
319g
Liquid, as water
181g
Hydration
56.7%
Salt
2.5%
Yeast
1.88%
Oil
7.8%
Sauce
n/a
Cheese
n/a
Dough weight
549g
Process
Bake temp
425°F / 218°C
Bake time
5 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Ingredients (9)
- yeastinstant yeast2 tsp · 6g
- sugargranulated sugar2 tsp · 8.4g
- salttable salt1 1/4 tsp · 8g
- dairy doughKing Arthur Easy Roll Dough Improver or King Arthur Baker's Special Dry Milk1 tbsp · 12.5g
- flour[product-link]King Arthur Italian-Style Flour[/product-link]*3 cup · 319g
- waterlukewarm water3/4 cup · 170g
- oilolive oil2 tbsp · 25g
- sauce tomatotomato or marinara saucen/a
- cheese mozzarellasliced mozzarella cheesen/a
Toppings (2)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheesefreshly chopped garlic
- post bakefresh basil leaves
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