Description
Our Pizza Gift Basket and live, online Pizza Making Class is the perfect way to treat your favorite pizza guy or gal this holiday season. It contains what they'll need to make authentic, restaurant quality pizzas at home using these fine gourmet ingredients imported from Italy. Free shipping.
Your gift includes a basketful of imported pizza ingredients from Paolo’s Italian Gourmet:
- Italian tomatoes for the pizza sauce
- Freshly dried Sicilian oregano branches
- Imported Calabrian Soppressata (salami )
- Italian 00 organic pizza flour
- Cracked Sicilian green olives in brine
- and, a bottle of Mike’s Hot Honey
Your gift also includes:
- A free 1 1/2 hour, online Neapolitan pizza making class
Learn how to make authentic, restaurant quality Neapolitan style pizza in your home (or outdoor) oven with this hands on, live pizza making course and demonstration.
Whether your giving this gift to a seasoned home cook or aspiring pizzaiolo, this class will help them create authentic, mouthwatering pizzas that will rival any restaurant pizza. We will send them the gift basket before Christmas and a coupon for the free pizza making class. Classes will start in January 2024.
The class will cover:
- Introduction to the Neapolitan style of pizza. Discover the history and significance of this style of pizza and the special techniques that make it stand out.
- Ingredients Selection and Sourcing: Understand which ingredients to buy and where to find them, including the specific type of flour, tomatoes, and cheese required to achieve the ideal Neapolitan pizza.
- The Science of Dough: Dive into the science of dough fermentation, gluten development, and hydration ratios. Learn how these factors influence the dough's texture, elasticity, and taste.
- Hands-on Dough Making: The instructor will demonstrate each step of the process; from making a Poolish, to kneading, rising, stretching, and shaping your dough using traditional methods.
- Fermentation and Resting: Explore the crucial role of fermentation in Neapolitan pizza dough. Learn about optimal resting times, proofing temperatures, and how to develop complex flavors through slow fermentation.
- Stretching and Shaping Mastery: Learn how to shape your dough into the characteristic thin and slightly puffy Neapolitan crust.
- Wood-Fired Oven and Home Oven Techniques: Learn how to cook Neapolitan pizza in a wood-fired oven. Learn how to adapt the recipe and cooking technique to make the perfect Neapolitan pizza in your home oven.
- Sauce and Toppings: We'll also explore the traditional tomato sauce and topping combinations that make the Neapolitan style pizza.
- Troubleshooting and Refinement: Learn how to address common challenges in dough-making and understand how to adjust for variables such as temperature, sticky dough, and dough that bounces back as you stretch it, or easily breaks.
Description
Our Pizza Gift Basket and live, online Pizza Making Class is the perfect way to treat your favorite pizza guy or gal this holiday season. It contains what they'll need to make authentic, restaurant quality pizzas at home using these fine gourmet ingredients imported from Italy. Free shipping.
Your gift includes a basketful of imported pizza ingredients from Paolo’s Italian Gourmet:
- Italian tomatoes for the pizza sauce
- Freshly dried Sicilian oregano branches
- Imported Calabrian Soppressata (salami )
- Italian 00 organic pizza flour
- Cracked Sicilian green olives in brine
- and, a bottle of Mike’s Hot Honey
Your gift also includes:
- A free 1 1/2 hour, online Neapolitan pizza making class
Learn how to make authentic, restaurant quality Neapolitan style pizza in your home (or outdoor) oven with this hands on, live pizza making course and demonstration.
Whether your giving this gift to a seasoned home cook or aspiring pizzaiolo, this class will help them create authentic, mouthwatering pizzas that will rival any restaurant pizza. We will send them the gift basket before Christmas and a coupon for the free pizza making class. Classes will start in January 2024.
The class will cover:
- Introduction to the Neapolitan style of pizza. Discover the history and significance of this style of pizza and the special techniques that make it stand out.
- Ingredients Selection and Sourcing: Understand which ingredients to buy and where to find them, including the specific type of flour, tomatoes, and cheese required to achieve the ideal Neapolitan pizza.
- The Science of Dough: Dive into the science of dough fermentation, gluten development, and hydration ratios. Learn how these factors influence the dough's texture, elasticity, and taste.
- Hands-on Dough Making: The instructor will demonstrate each step of the process; from making a Poolish, to kneading, rising, stretching, and shaping your dough using traditional methods.
- Fermentation and Resting: Explore the crucial role of fermentation in Neapolitan pizza dough. Learn about optimal resting times, proofing temperatures, and how to develop complex flavors through slow fermentation.
- Stretching and Shaping Mastery: Learn how to shape your dough into the characteristic thin and slightly puffy Neapolitan crust.
- Wood-Fired Oven and Home Oven Techniques: Learn how to cook Neapolitan pizza in a wood-fired oven. Learn how to adapt the recipe and cooking technique to make the perfect Neapolitan pizza in your home oven.
- Sauce and Toppings: We'll also explore the traditional tomato sauce and topping combinations that make the Neapolitan style pizza.
- Troubleshooting and Refinement: Learn how to address common challenges in dough-making and understand how to adjust for variables such as temperature, sticky dough, and dough that bounces back as you stretch it, or easily breaks.