Can I double the pizza dough recipe for my bread machine
I have a Panasonic SD-ZB2512 bread maker and I like to use it to make pizza dough. It does a good enough job but only makes enough for one pizza at a time. Can I double the recipe? I'm pretty sure it would fit but worry the recipe might not be scale-able for other reasons. Would I be risking horrible dough or a damaged machine?
Best Answer
You might be able to, give the capacity you state in your comment, but it might not mix or rise properly.
You'll have to test, keeping within the capacity limits to protect the machine. You might end up with bad dough, but it may be receoverable with some extra kneading and proving (though it won't recover to as good as you'd have got in the first place).
You may also have some success with a generic dough program for the amount of flour you want to use -- but again you might have barely-acceptable results, or you might have a complete failure the first time. You may need to adjust the water content if your dough doesn't work out.
Personally I'd test it but not for guests until you'd perfected it. I tend to make the standard pizza dough quantity for my machine but roll it out much larger for a thin-based family-size pizza -- another way to make one batch go further.
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Why you should not double a bread machine recipe, even if you are only using the DOUGH cycle: The machine won't knead the dough as efficiently when using more flour than recommended in the manual. Too much dough can strain the motor.Should you double rise pizza dough?
Allowing dough to rise twice results in a finer gluten structure than allowing it to rise once. It results in a smaller crumb and prevents huge gaping airholes in your bread. The reason that you have to let it re-rise is that you just pushed all the air out with the kneading you did developing that gluten structure.Can I use the same dough for bread and pizza?
Can You Use Bread Dough For Pizza? You can use bread dough for pizza. It has the same core ingredients, so with the correct preparation you will be able to make pizza just fine. Roll or stretch it thinly for a thin crust pizza, or press it into a sheet pan for a thicker, more bread-like base.How do you double proof pizza dough?
Some like to prove all of the dough in one large container. You simply cover the bowl with cling film or kitchen towel and leave it until it doubles or triples in volume. Warm place, 1 to 1\xbd hours usually. The method we recommend doing is to split to the dough into individual pizza amounts at this stage.Bread Machine Pizza Dough Recipe
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