Yes Hormel makes tasty nitrate preservative free lunch meats too...Costs more...but taste delish...bacon as well... And Jimmy Deam makes a delish Natural sausage in "hot" and regular. I use the hot for pizza or breakfast. and then there is this other brand of hotdogs and polish or smoked sausage I buy that is Gluten Free and nitrate free. Bistro Naturals by John Morrell. another one to check on is Dietz and Watson...Albertsons Deli carries it. Applegate Farms (carried at Trader Joes and other "natual" grocery stores.

Flwrs, Sorry, I almost missed your reply. I have two AEG Ovens. A half and a full. These are two separate ovens, not a combo. AEG is the european... friend? of electrolux. I am located in Oregon and had them shipped in from overseas via a company in Canada. I can give you references to that if you wanted to go to those lengths but I have to say, as much as I love my 1.5 I don't know if I would push the expense and stress of doing it that way onto somone else. Steam ovens ARE pricier. Just flat out. No holds barred. Lol. But they are the only ovens where people seeming to be aiming for smaller in size rather than larger. If you think you might be interested you should put in a new post asking about steam ovens in the name. You'll get a ton of responses. And, for that matter, tons of cool pictures!

Gluten does not make dough rise, yeast does. As you knead the dough, the gluten develops into long strands that bind the dough together so it holds together better and is not crumbly when it's been baked. That's why you're not supposed to mix cake batter or biscuit dough too much, so the gluten doesn't develop, leaving you with tough cake or biscuits. And because pizza dough has lots of well developed gluten, it can be rolled thinly and still hold together, and not crumble up when you try to cut it after baking.

The spinners are good to have, and you can see me using them in the video in which the pizza came out the way it should. I have another video that shows me trying to use the spinners too soon, which should be avoided because the dough has to be cooked sufficiently before spinning the pizza. The spinners are easier to use and more efficient once the dough has cooked enough, but for me, the first turn needs to be done with a turner. If you do not have a turner, you can remove the pizza after 15 seconds using the peel and then turn it on the peel, but it's very difficult to use the peel as a turner without removing the pizza. I know you weren't laughing at me, but for me, the video is painful to watch. I have another video that shows what happens when you try to use the spinners after 10 seconds (another mistake), and so that one might appear funny to others, although not to me. I'll see about uploading it later, as it does have some good information. I don't care if people laugh at my videos - I'm used to it by now. It's just that it is never my intention to make funny videos. However, I've looked at some of my videos later and did find some of them funny. Sometimes I seem to say things without really thinking, and then I wonder later what possessed me to say them. I'm pretty good at ad libbing and can be very spontaneous, but that can be dangerous also. A lot of times I catch people off-guard when I say things that even I don't know why I say. Most of the time I try to control myself, but some people are amused when I don't. I don't know if I mentioned this before or not, but I was in a short independent movie that a friend of mine in Hollywood wrote and directed, and he also did the video editing. He's done video editing for Blind Date, The Robin Leach Show, and many others, and so he's quite good at editing. Anyway, he was using my house in Venice for a location shoot and happened to ask me if I wanted to be in the movie, as he wanted to flesh it out a bit and had decided to add another character, which I was to play. I said okay, but was never given a script, and so I had to ad lib my lines in front of the camera, which took a little bit of getting used to. The movie was a mystery/crime story and therefore not meant to be funny, and so I tried to play my part very seriously. However, when the movie was shown on the big screen to an audience in Hollywood, everyone laughed when I was on screen. I found out later that I was the comic relief, although no one told me that before. After the movie was over, there was a reception in a patio behind the theater, and I got to meet people from the audience who told me that they loved my performance and wanted to know if I had been in anything else. At least they liked me, even though they thought I was funny. P.S. I fixed the link so that it does not take you to Seattle.