Dough - buy it or make it?

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Do you make your own dough or buy it at the store?

  • Make it

    Votes: 26 81.3%
  • Buy it

    Votes: 6 18.8%

  • Total voters
    32
i make it and i buy it. depends on the mood i am in. it is hard for me to make it as i am only baking for myself. hate to use all the indg. to end up throwing part of it away.

You don't have to throw it out, Babe. I regularly make 2 loaves and immediately freeze one. I slice the other and keep out a few slices, and freeze the rest. The multigrain and whole wheat breads I make most are fine when thawed out, and especially make great toast, so I take it from the freezer one slice at a time, unless I need more.

If I'm having company, I make rolls, or a fresh loaf. Even using organic, straight from the farmer flour that costs $1.50 per pound, I am saving money plus I don't worry about the flour issues I have with "regular" flour.
 
If I have the time I'll make my own bread or pizza dough but AP is what I'll use for pizza.

For yeast i use the stuff in the jar but the packets work too, pre-measured makes it easy.

If i get commercial I use it for sandwhiches or toast
 
Make ALL the bread products we eat and have been doing so for more years than I can count. Hamburger/hot dog buns, rolls, all types of breads, pizza, pita, English muffins, you name it. Do some by hand, use the bread machine as well as the KitchenAid mixer.
 
I make it if I have time, and particularly on special occasions, such as the holidays. But I also use frozen pie crusts and have found them to be acceptable. In fact, some are pretty good. Better a frozen crust than no pie at all!

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Lemon Chess Pie in Frozen Crust
 
I've created my goto recipes for my hearth bread and pizza dough over the past year. I make about 15# of bread dough when I bake and 8# of pizza dough when my freezer gets low. I started out with a Kitchenaid, then to my Cuisinart food processor, to doing it by hand, to an Electrolux DLX. I built a Wood Fired Oven last summer, and it bakes some fantastic bread, although I've found I can get similar results with my home oven with a stone on the bottom and one on the top and a spritzer bottle. Anyway, I'll roll 6-10 pizza balls, bag & freeze immediately. Then I pull them out a day ahead of time for use. It's very convenient and they rise nicely. For bread, I'll bake 8-10 loaves and a dozen or so buns from a single batch. Leave one loaf out and freeze the rest. I use Caputo 00 flour for my pizza dough and a mix of Caputo 00 and Hi Gluten flour for my bread dough.
 
I always make it - I make french bread about twice a month, pizza dough once a month and dinner rolls about twice a week. I couldn't afford to buy that much dough at the store
 
So many companies do such a better job than I do. So I buy it, be it bread (quick or yeast), pie, etc, I buy it. For years my husband and I got into making it ourselves, but it was simply too inconsistent in results. So now I buy.
 
I don't make baguettes because I can't make them to suit myself. I like the REALLY hard crust (the kind that will tear the roof of your mouth if you're not careful) and that is nearly impossible in a home oven.

Otherwise, I really enjoy making and baking breads and rolls and coffee cakes. I have always liked working with yeast doughs. My favorite breads to make are Jewish Style Rye and Challah -- with a side of Cinnamon Swirl. :)
 
I am too lazy too make bread at home. As for pizza dough, I buy it at the store. Whole foods sells great quality pizza dough. I sometimes decide to make my own pizza dough, but most of the time I just hate cleaning up the mess.
 
I buy my pizza dough - amazingly it comes with pizza sauce, Italian sausage, onions, peppers, and olives on it and gets delivered :glare:
 
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