Leo Spizzirri is teaching how to load a pizza on the pizza peel and launch it into the oven. How to put a pizza on the peel and then put it into the oven
If you stretch it correctly you just know it wont stick. Make sure its dry with no excess flour to make a mess because you are a professional. No thin spots thats your weekest link. The sauce on a thin spot will moisten the bottom sooner. The pizza peel should slide underneath without using your hands. So many time losing wasted steps here. You should open up five doughs dress them and scoop and slide in the oven five times no hesitation. If you hesitate you have no confidence and thats how lives are lost.
Italian people can make the simple things look soooo important
Every pizzeria I've worked in in NY would make the pizza directly on the peel. I always wondered why some do and some dont
If you stretch it correctly you just know it wont stick. Make sure its dry with no excess flour to make a mess because you are a professional. No thin spots thats your weekest link. The sauce on a thin spot will moisten the bottom sooner. The pizza peel should slide underneath without using your hands. So many time losing wasted steps here. You should open up five doughs dress them and scoop and slide in the oven five times no hesitation. If you hesitate you have no confidence and thats how lives are lost.
That pizza he was turning in the oven was burnt black on its bottom.