Pizza Dough

Bonehead

This might be a stupid question but I have never made dough before :S.
If I make a batch of dough and don't use it all, what's the best way to keep it? and for how long?

Di

It freezes well. Separate it into pizza sizes, lightly oil and place in a ziplock freezer bag. Put it in the refrigerator the day before you plan to use it. You can also set it out on the counter the day you will use it. Once it's thawed, it's ready for making pizza.

I will only keep dough in the refrigerator for one to two days. It's best to freeze it.

mkc

Depending on how much yeast is in the dough, either refrigerate or freeze. The longest I've seen in the fridge is about 11 days, but that had 1/8 teaspoon of yeast per dough ball and was intentionally designed to be a long, cool ferment. 8 days was optimal for that formulation.

Mine uses 1/4 teaspoon of yeast and I intentionally cold ferment for at least 4, preferably 6, days to develop flavors.

-M

Bonehead

Thanks.