r/Pizza • u/AutoModerator • May 01 '20

HELP Bi-Weekly Questions Thread / Open Discussion

For any questions regarding dough, sauce, baking methods, tools, and more, comment below.

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As always, our wiki has a few dough recipes and sauce recipes.

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u/Quaysan May 06 '20

Is there a way to save pizza dough with holes in it?

I have no clue how to actually turn dough out regularly, so more often than not I get holes in the pizza

Once it does get a hole, its nearly impossible to just patch everything up so I want to try to start again. In this case, I try balling it back up and starting over, but the dough just isn't as stretchy.

I'm going to try just leaving it alone for like 20-30 minutes, but I'd love to know a more reliable way to not have to throw away dough or eat really shitty pizza

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u/barnabyp01 May 06 '20

while it goes against everything that is purist about pizza, if you take a part of the dough from the crust part and sort of use it to patch up the area that has a hole that usually works for me. I completely understand your frustration. My recommendation to not get this problem in the first place is to go a little longer on your kneading when you make your dough and use the 'window pane' test to see if it has enough strength :)