Pizza Bases - Source For Mixer And Flour

[tebee]

Having told my wife that I used to make my own home made pizzas she now wants me to make some for her here. Now the first problem was she didn't have an oven, but a trip down to Makro secured a mini-oven for a very reasonable 1,900 baht together with olive oil and tomato paste. But we couldn't find either a hard wheat flour or ready o roll out pizza dough. The only mixer that looked man enough to mix bread dough was a whopping 5,900 baht and I didn't see any bread-making machines I could have used instead.

Back home I used Kenwood Chef with a dough hook and although you can pick these up for £20-50 used in the UK, they are little on the heavy and bulky side to stick in my baggage.

So any suggestions as to what I could used here and where to get it in the Bkk area?

[RabC]

I dont know where you are but I but Italian pizza flour and yeast here in Pattaya and knead by hand, turns out great.

[AyG]

Strong (bread) flour is readily available in Villa, Tops and Foodland.

Bread dough is easy to make by hand. However, if you're really not into kneading, there are no-knead bread recipes.

Ready made pizza dough is available in MaxValue in the chiller cabinet.

[haveaniceday]

Ready made pizza dough is available in MaxValue in the chiller cabinet.

MaxValue, I have not heard of them, Please more info?

[tebee]

Ready made pizza dough is available in MaxValue in the chiller cabinet.

MaxValue, I have not heard of them, Please more info?

As the OP I've not heard of the either, but then I live out in the bkk suburbs ( near Rangsit) not in the usual ex-pat areas

[AyG]

MaxValu (sorry - no "e") is a Japanese supermarket chain with branches across Bangkok. The parent company is, I believe, Aeon. Aeon also has a number of Jusco stores. I think Jusco might be rebranding as MaxValu - but I'm not sure. The store format is relatively small, but they have a very good range of vegetables and fish as well as imported (particularly Japanese) products. Prices are better than the likes of Villa and TOPS.

[wayned]

I live in the "boonies"(in the middlle of sugar cane fields), not normally where expats live. No Viilas, tesco or bigs Cs within 100 kilometers. I make my dough by hand. I use bread flour, when I can get it, but all purpose works okay. I buy it in the open air thai market in the closest village. I do have a regular oven that I bought at Home Pro, but I also use a counter top convection oven sometimes. I don't measure anything exactly, but use about 3/4 cup hot water, a heaping tablespoon of active dry yeast(make sure that it's not beyond the expiration date), pinch of salt, pinch of sugar and about (I just looked) 2 cups of flour. I let the yeast proof in the water for about 5 minutes and add all of the other ingredients. Mix with a fork until crumbly, turn out on a floured board and kneed for about 5 minutes. then form it into a ball and put in a greased bowl, cover and let rise about 30 minutes. Roll it out, thick or thin and top it. It makes one large pizza or two small ones about 10 inches. I then cook it on a pizza stone in a very hot oven, about 230 centegrade. I let the pizza stone get very hot first, maybe 30 minutes. The pizza stone is the piece of granite counter top that I cut out when I Installed my sink. If you can find corn meal its best to spread some on the stone to avoid sticking, but I use a little flour. Not the best I've ever had, but definitely better than pizza hut or any store bought crust. I had a couple of pieces for lunch today.

If you leave out the yeast and substitute a small amiount of lard you can make flour tortillas. If you add too much lard you get pie crust.

Edited December 31, 2011 by wayned

[Furbie]

You don’t need a mixer to do pizza dough, as you can do it by hand easily enough – though I use a food processor (Severin bought at Virasu) with the dough blade attachment if I’m feeling lazy. Villa has several varieties of wheat flour (I never buy the pizza mix) – I usually do 2/3 wheat and 1/3 all-purpose. My GF can’t believe how good homemade pizza is and won’t eat it out anymore. Dough ingredients are cheap – try a few and see how they come out – there are many recipes on the internet. I suggest going for the ones that use olive oil. I have a pizza stone I brought back from the US, but I have seen pizza trays at Emporium.