Keep your metal peel for retrieving pizza from the oven. Try a wood peel for launching. Rub it with oil every once in a while and throw a little bit of semolina flour down before placing your dough. It should launch easily.
I used that peel to launch, with semolina. It seemed to come off fine, but I need to work on technique likely. Think I just didn't get it far enough in before I pulled...and thus left it getting smooshed a bit as I tried to make it fit.
Everything is super subjective. My philosophy is if you have a good sourdough crust that has some sort of like essence to it and you have a good and super basic pizza sauce then you can layer that with just about anything from a homemade mozzarella to fontina cheese to truffle, fennel stuff to whatever is your bag. Just make it you
My dough is pretty sticky at launch. One tip is to put parchment paper on the peel first and then assemble your pizza then launch. After a couple minutes in the oven the crust should be hardened enough to remove the paper.
I will still use a light dusting of semolina on the paper before I assemble just because I personally like that texture on my crust. 😁
Keep your metal peel for retrieving pizza from the oven. Try a wood peel for launching. Rub it with oil every once in a while and throw a little bit of semolina flour down before placing your dough. It should launch easily.
I used that peel to launch, with semolina. It seemed to come off fine, but I need to work on technique likely. Think I just didn't get it far enough in before I pulled...and thus left it getting smooshed a bit as I tried to make it fit.
I use a metal peel to launch, it’s not that big a deal. I assemble the pizza on it and launch with corn meal (for NY style).
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Everything is super subjective. My philosophy is if you have a good sourdough crust that has some sort of like essence to it and you have a good and super basic pizza sauce then you can layer that with just about anything from a homemade mozzarella to fontina cheese to truffle, fennel stuff to whatever is your bag. Just make it you
My dough is pretty sticky at launch. One tip is to put parchment paper on the peel first and then assemble your pizza then launch. After a couple minutes in the oven the crust should be hardened enough to remove the paper.
I will still use a light dusting of semolina on the paper before I assemble just because I personally like that texture on my crust. 😁