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My shiny equipment gets few and far between since I am stuck on the Oxbar disposables and have lost the desire to fidget or do DIY. Thought I would post a picture anyway. This is the Voopoo Drag X2. Bought based on Hitt's review. Color is Silver with colorful white, also bought because of Hitt's review.
Of course I got extra pods and coils.
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That crust looks really good. What's your dough recipe?
This batch was (baker's %),

100% High-Gluten flour (Bova)
61% water
1.5% salt
1% oil
0.58% active dry yeast

72 hour cold ferment
3+ hours room temp before bake

I usually use instant yeast but didn't have any so used a packet of the active, so that's why the percentage there might seem odd.
I typically used to use from 0.25 - 0.5 of the instant.

Bread flour or highest protein content you can find would be okay.
(NOT Vital Wheat Gluten.)

My understanding is using the high-gluten flour helps achieve the crackly/crisp outside and chewy inside result.
Many pizzerias use it for New York style dough.

If you aren't familiar with baker's percentage I could figure out numbers if you need them.

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Ours is a lower end GE electric. It goes up to 550°F.
I do use baking tiles which are the same material as most pizza stones.
View attachment 1028428I have a couple of stones as well but can make a little bit bigger pizza with the tiles.
I set it to 510° for yesterday's bake and the bottoms came out well,
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I didn't time the bakes because this oven takes longer to achieve similar results to the old one. (not just with pizza)
My early tries had trouble getting a good brown on the bottom so I gave up timing them and just go by visual progress.

I have been having better results with all my baking more recently so maybe the heating elements needed to break in - not sure if that is a thing but it's all I can come up with.
Our old cheap builders grade stove did fine. The one we have now is a convection type. It has a regular bake option on the bottom oven but it doesn’t crisp any better. I saw that cuisanart and solo have some pizza ovens on the market but I don’t need another small appliance to store. My pellet grill actually cooks pizza fairly well.

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