"Mary Beth Goodman" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 03 May 2005 22:55:17 GMT, "Vox Humana" >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > >You can make pizza dough in your food processor in under 5 minutes.
>
>
> Sounds so ridiculous, but I do this regularly with the recipe that came
> with my cuisinart processor. I tried it the first time because I had a
> real hankering for pizza and figured what the heck. Turned out Great!
>
> Takes longer to heat the oven up. And having a really hot oven is
> important.
>
> I do use a pizza stone and also have a larger one for bread making.
> Makes a real difference for the crust. I got the pizza stone on sale at
> Dansk and consider it a real plus. I got a larger one later on because
> the pizza stone wasn't big enough to bake two loaves of bread on.
>
> I'm sure glad I tried that recipe! It's a fun part of my week.

Just to be clear, I make the dough in 5 minutes (mixing and kneading) but I
let it rise until double - about another 45 minutes. My point is that if
all you are doing is making the dough in a bread machine, then I think a
bread machine a huge piece of one-use equipment that could be easily
replaced with a food processor. I overlooked using the FP for dough making
for years. Once I decided to give it a try (because of a message posted
here) I was amazed. It doesn't seem like it would work well, but it does.
And I find that it is a lot less messy than using the KA stand mixer.