I baked a mistake today.

[RonB]

Sunday I made some pizza dough, but as I put the flour away I realized that I had used AP flour instead of bread flour. After a few choice words I started over using the correct flour this time. But I had this low hydration dough that I didn't think would make good bread, but I didn't want to throw it out either, so I saved it.

Today was pizza day and I decided to try the "bad" dough too. The pizza turned out great, but the bread was a bit dense, (not surprised because the hydration was much lower than I would prefer). It did taste good though.

You can see the difference in the two doughs. Guess which is the right one, (it's on the right ). The bad dough never rose much at all - not even when baked.



It was difficult to shape and I just went with it.



Dense but good.



I was happy with the pizza though.

[Steve B]

I kinda like the first pic of the bread. Looks like an alien by product. 😂

[bbqLuv]

Is it only me, or has anyone else noticed pizza always seems flat?

[texastweeter]

Kinda like coors

[RonB]

But the bread isn't.

[holehogg]

Glad the "bad" dough didn't end up being a "John" dough. Good looking pizza Sir.

[smokin fool]

At some point I'm going to try my own dough, we buy frozen pizza dough usually from on grocery store and it is quite tasty.
We know its tasty because we tried za dough from an rival grocery store that had no taste at all.
Man it was crap.

[RonB]

Try this no knead recipe - it takes about 5 min to make and then rest overnight at room temp:

https://www.thespruceeats.com/no-kne...-recipe-101626

[Thunder77]

That’s interesting, because I personally prefer AP flour in my pizza crust recipes.

[RonB]

That's fine - make it how you like it. AP flour just needs a higher hydration.

[gmascolo51]

I have had good results with bread flour as it has a high protein content. In the wood fired oven I typically use 00 but the bread flour does a nice job as well. I once tried making focaccia with 00 it was terrible. Bread flour is the way to go for focaccia.

[FireMan]

"Bad pizza, bad pizza".
Is there such a thing?

[RonB]

Yes - if ya put pineapple on it.

[Bob's BBQ]

I wish my mistakes would come out that good!

[Redwng]

The pizza sure looks great from here!

[Thunder77]

I have read several articles that actually recommended AP flour for pizza dough. I often use a mixture of AP and bread flour. All that being said, your bread and pizza look great to me! 😎