Lou, I hope that you're not offended. I had already started both her dough and sauce before asking for help. I do want to try yours, seriously. And hoping that I'm not misreading, too. I hate forums and emails for trying to interpret what someone really means. Thank you so much, Lou, for the emails and the forum posts. I will be working on my pizza/calzone/stromboli expertise many times in the near future with four kids ages eight and under. And using your posts for guidance. Nancy

Tannabanana, I regularly freeze unbaked bread dough. I mix, let rise, form the rolls and then freeze. If they are used within a couple of months they will be fine. I take mine out the night before and let them thaw/rise overnight in the refrigerator, I'm talking about 8 pm the night before. I take them from the refrigerator in the morning, let them come to room temp and rise, then bake just like I would if they were fresh. It also works great for fresh cinnamon rolls for breakfast! Annie

Yes, I have successfully frozen pizza dough, just recently a couple of weeks ago. I drizzle some olive oil in a heavy duty zip bag and spread it around with my fingers then plop in the ball of dough, seal it well, label it and put in the freezer for several weeks. Thaw completely in the refrigerator when ready to use. Last weekend I made the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes recipe and used some of the dough to make a pizza - very good! That dough keeps in the fridge for a week, and I have more storage in my fridge than in the freezer, so I will be using that recipe for my pizza dough in the future.

00 flour won't make any difference if the dough is too wet, other than worsen the problem. The 00 flour is just ground a lot finer than other flour. What matters, regardless of the type of flour you're using, is the proportion of water, flour, and heat. If your dough is extremely wet, you can make it in a pan, but you'll have trouble using a peel. If your dough is not so wet, you'll be able to slide it off the peel having used only a slight dusting of flour. So the key is to get it as wet as possible but still have it be workable. If you want to use 00 flour, that works, but the mechanics are a little different because it absorbs water a little differently. In any case, look for a flour that has a fairly high gluten content. What makes your pizza dough spring is the sudden input of heat onto the dough surface. That heats the water in the dough, which creates steam, which blows up your dough. So you want your oven extremely hot and you want to put your dough on a material that transfers heat really fast. I have not used that Unii but supposedly it gets up to over 900 degrees F, which is fantastic and on par with many professional ovens. You should be able to make phenomenal pizza with that. For a home oven, I use a half-inch piece of steel directly under the broiler. My last stove would get the surface of the steel up to almost 700 degrees, which actually turned out to be too hot. I think the Unii has a stone in it rather than steel, which doesn't transfer heat as efficiently and which is a better material for the temps that oven can produce. in fact, it should be pizza heaven! We've made pizza at home a few times a week for many years and I've done it in a professional setting as well. There are lots of recipes for dough, but basically you want a slightly wet, but not too wet dough. You can start out with say, a cup of water and two cups of flour, and work up to around 2 3/4 cups of flour as needed, but you'll never want that much. Some people say to weigh the ingredients and go for a 65% hydration or even more if you can, but weighing or measuring really isn't the point - you need to be able to tell by feel and not by measuring. That's how people cooked for centuries anyway. A couple of other things - you should let your dough rest for a while once you mix in the water. It takes time for each granule of flour to become hydrated, and your dough will be a lot better if you give it some rest time. Anything from five or ten minutes to a few hours will help. Or do a sponge method, where you mix the yeast, water, and some flour a day early and let that bubble up, then add the rest of the flour, the next day. Remember that 00 flour absorbs water faster and it also burns faster in your oven, so you'll need to play with your timings and ratios. And if you use whole wheat for part of the flour, you can let the dough stay a little wetter than you might otherwise - the bran will take a longer time to absorb water and once it rises, it won't be so wet and sticky. So this is a long way of saying what someone above said much more eloquently - try adding a little more flour or less water. But be careful - you don't want too much flour or your crust won't be as good. Just a sprinkling of flour, work that, and if you need more, add another sprinkling. And remember that your dough will feel wetter when you set it to rise than it will once it's risen, particularly if you let it rise in the fridge overnight or for a couple of days. If you work with cold dough, it's a lot easier to handle. And finally it's your preference. Some people like a Neapolitan type crust, which is floppy and soft with a crisp cornicione, which is the thick part at the outer edge of the crust. Some people like what they call New York style, which is a thicker crust that you can hold up and which a lot of New Yorkers like to fold over lengthwise. That's a dumb move btw, and I can say that as a New Yorker, but you end up channeling the grease onto your shirt. Anyhow, best of luck!