The CORRECT way to Freeze Pizza Dough

In this video I go through the techniques I use to freeze extra pizza dough.

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[BlooYa_Johnson]

And you said all that in under 2 minutes!

[urzamtg]

ty for making this video under 2 minutes. absolutely massive to not have to skip thru 10 mins of total garbage to find a 10 second answer.

[rexbaeumler]

I like the idea of freezing my dough balls. My normal process is mix the ingredients, knead the dough separate into balls place in a oiled glass container like you use then straight into the refrigerator with no room temp wait time. Should I let them set in room temp before going in the refrigerator? So I understand at what point of the process would I put the dough in the freezer? Hope this makes sense. Love the videos, thank you.

[waltzb]

Many thanks for the video. Worked well on some bar pizza dough, going to try it with your ultimate pizza recipe that I made my first NY style pizza with. Cheers!

[larrykleckner]

Hello Jessie, because I'm old and have arthritis is my hands its hard for me to knead by hand so I utilized my stand mixer. I followed the recipe and instructions starting with paddle to combine water and poolish and salt, covered and let rest 20 min. started kneading with dough hook in mixer for 10, covered and rested for 5 minutes. The dough was very sticky at this point, did it need more kneading. Had to put down some flour to manage it and get it into greased bowl. Can you advise why dough was so sticky. In your video your dough looked great. thanks ;mu, Larry

[nautidawg]

Thanks! I made a great poolish Napoletano dough and have too many balls left. I had heard that you can't freeze these....I cringe at the thought of throwing them out. I am so glad I found your video! :)

[Dustin.Orrick]

@PatioPizza Awesome video! Have a question for you. If i portioned into dough balls first and fermented, before i freeze them should i tighten the dough again before freezing or put it in the frezzer relaxed?

[any.user.allowed.]

Thanks for sealing Julius Cheeser sir.

[luvmyferretz]

Awesome videos. I've been following Vito for a long time, and I think he's great, don't get me wrong. But I'm trying to find an easier way to making the dough, the step after the 24 hour poolish. I'm so glad that you posted a video using a mixer like mine. And I was trying see if there were other ways to freeze the dough. You're one of the 2 best out there! Thanks so much for all of your videos, especially the cheese sticks yummmm 😍👍👏🙏

[troy]

Awesome. Great video brother. I’ve yet to freeze dough but appreciate having this info in my back pocket now.

[driftergrey]

How about pre-baking slightly and then freeze like that. The blank pizza crusts they sell in the grocery store are already shaped and pre-baked, yeah?? 🤔🧐

[louisfan]

Hi I’m a little confused. my workflow looks like: 18hr poolish -> knead dough -> one hour bulk in room temp -> portioning -> final rise 1-2 hrs in room temp.
Do I freeze the dough balls before or after the final rise?

[dawnamendola]

So after you mix the dough, let it rise the form balls, then freeze ? Or do you put the formed balls in the refrigerator overnight then freeze ?

[Eli-wvbn]

I make a pretty awesome sourdough pizza dough, however I am yet to figure out how to freeze it properly. If I freeze it doesn’t puff up properly during baking. It kind of stays dense and gets soggy instead of airy. Also, during the defrosting the top of the pizza dough sometimes blows up, instead of the air, staying distributed in and throughout the pizza dough. I’ve experimented with freezing the pizza dough before, and after the rising period, and I am yet to have success.

[solo]

Whats the procedure if i want to make 48hr fermented dough. Do i ferment the dough for 48hrs then make portion size and put in the freezer?

[jayyy]

Feels like a Vito Iacopelli summary video.

[DejaBluePropertyManagement]

im confused, you said let it fully fermante, but you put a dough ball in the freezer directly, not a post-fermentation dough? Cause its not a ball post fermentation.

[dermosquitor]

Simple question. Simple answer. Thanks for not making this last 10 minutes. You may consider turning this into a short. Guess you will get lots of clicks for this. Thank you anyway😁