I make my pizza dough in the bread machine. The recipe is enough for four 12 inch pizzas. I make 2 and then freeze/refrigerate the other half of the dough. The taste of the second set is different but I have not noticed differences in how the dough rolls out.

My sister uses a bread machine to do her dough, too. I just dump ingredients into bowl of Kitchenaid (Big Mother) mixer and it comes out dough. Though never a failure, crust is always a bit thick.

I roll my pizzas out on the circular 12 inch parchment they will be baked on, and put the parchment on my cutting board. For me, the secret for getting a thin rolled out crust is to keep turning the paper and rolling, and do this for two or three minutes per crust which actually seems like a long time when one is doing it.

Crusts for a 12 inch pizza are 8 ounces, with 3/4 cup crushed tomatoes and 7-8 ounces of whole milk mozzarella. That makes a fairly thin crust but not one of those ultra cracker thin ones.

I thought it would be "fun" to work in a bakery in a commercial setting, so I did and no...I quit after 4 months. They use bakers yeast, different than quick rise, making a HUGE batch of french bread dough, rolling it out into loafs and it keeps for 3 days in the frig. It didn't rise until it was put into the oven and steamed on low....proofed.

I keep my brick of yeast in the freezer for 2 years....easy...before I use it up. Always perfect.

I wanna say my sister gets hers at Costco or one of those warehouse places?!? Have wondered what the mailman must thing when he delivers that occasional "pillow" of stuff to my mailbox?!?

I seem to recall the show about the breakfast pizza but I don't remember any details of it. I'm guessing the refrigerator dough makes a difference. I've done refrigerator dinner rolls before but never pizza crust. I did a lot of the crazy crust and simple doughs but haven't made pizza in a long time. So, a long story, slightly longer, can't help you. :)

Sam's Club and Costco both sell yeast quite cheap. They have 2-1# bags for $4-$5 which is super cheap. I don't use enough yeast to justify it but have thought if I did more I'd buy it and toss the excess and could still save money. They also are cheap on things like powdered sugar and brown sugar. That's some of the real values in there. Most other things aren't the bargain people think they are when they look at cost per unit.

IMO, Sam's Club has the best deal on individual cooking and baking items like flour, sugar, oil, etc. I don't find some of the other items that great of a deal. They sell the yeast in bricks or at least they did the last time I bought some. Costco has some merits, but they don't offer the selection of basic cooking and baking goods that Sam's does.

I like the pizza crust in the breadmaker. It has worked well for us. Still looking for a good recipe, but the ones I have tried haven't been bad. I think mainly I need more spice for more flavor.

Lucille.....the health food stores here sell bakers yeast. I ordered my brick of Red Star yeast online from Jet.com. 2lbs for $4.94..free shipping. Yeast

used the code welcome15

I bought a brick of Red Star yeast at Costco a while ago. It was $3.95. It's the regular dry yeast which is what I like. I keep my yeast in the freezer and it lasts for ages.

Thank you all for the yeast advice. Nicole, that's a great price but Jet.com wanted me to spend $35 to get free shipping. I was shopping online at Walmart today anyway for grand baby toys, so I looked for yeast and they had the Red Star. I have not seen that brand before but if it Jasdip has bought it I think it will be fine so I got two pounds. I will keep it in the freezer.