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+categories = ["food"]
+date = 2025-12-07T09:00:00Z
+description = ""
+draft = false
+slug = "2025-12-07-mod-pizza-crust-par-bake"
+title = "🫓 Par-baking Pizza Crusts"
+author = "nicholas"
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+
+It is winter time. We live on the third and top floor of an apartment complex, top of the thermal strata. My downstairs neighbors' gas heaters, 250 W of plant lights, a server rack of computer equipment (which I have made some effort to make energy efficient for summertime), and various other, now 100% efficient heat-making household electrical appliances are all that are needed to heat our apartment, even at sustained temperatures as low as ~20°F. 
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+This is the perfect time to batch-par-bake a few pizza crusts. No waste heat!
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+We made the dough on Saturday night, cold-fermented it in the fridge overnight in little pizza dough proofing pans. A half size sheet pan would not fit in the refrigerator. I moved them to a parchment-lined half size sheet pan to come up to room temperature the following day.
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+## Process
+The process is:
+- mix dough
+- divide
+- shape into balls
+- cold ferment 24-72 hr
+- allow to warm to room temperature
+- preheat baking steel 45 min @ 500° F
+- roll out to size (in this case, 14″)
+- load onto parchment paper
+- dock dough, thoroughly
+- launch onto baking steel
+- bake ≈ 1 min
+- invert, cool on rack ≈ 10 min
+- freeze immediately
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+## Images
+
+{{< gallerynew name="par-bake-pizza-dough-gallery" >}}
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+images:
+  - src: "images/dough-in-proofing-pan.JPG"
+    alt: "Dough in proofing pan"
+    caption: "Dough in proofing pan"
+  - src: "images/dough-in-proofing-box.JPG"
+    alt: "Dough in proofing box"
+    caption: "Dough in proofing box"
+  - src: "images/dough-rolled-circle.JPG"
+    alt: "Dough rolled flat into a circle"
+    caption: "Dough rolled flat into a circle"
+  - src: "images/doughs-rolled-circle.JPG"
+    alt: "Many dough rolled into circle"
+    caption: "Many dough rolled into circle"
+  - src: "images/par-baked-crusts.JPG"
+    alt: "Par-baked pizza crusts"
+    caption: "Par-baked pizza crusts"