Can anyone here hand toss dough into a pizza pie?
 

And done it professionally?

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Occasionally, I buy one of those "take and bake" pizzas from the grocery store. I'll add either spaghetti sauce, or cut up tomatoes, extra cheese, and other toppings I like, mushrooms, olives, onion, garlic, etc., then bake.

I should really just learn how to make the pizza dough and just do the whole thing from scratch.

Nope. I roll it out onto a large granite island before topping it and putting it into my Ooni. Ooni is French for "pie hole".

And so we're off to a slow start...

I bet there’s a lot of hand tossing at DJs house

Yes.
Yes.

Yes and Yes.

I worked at Amantea Italian restaurant in high school and made a shit ton of pizzas, all hand tosses.

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Yes, and yes. My first job was at a pizzeria and in order to work up front in the kitchen making pizza, you had to hand toss dough.

I thought you were a Pepper Boy....:rofl:

I just stretch the dough. I make a pretty good Grandma pie from scratch but can't toss the dough. However, I eat at places that do. Just had wood fired Pizza today!

Used to be a place in Pittsburgh called Vincent's Pizzaria. We called it Sweaty Vinnies because the owner was always wearing stained white t-shirts while tossing the dough with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Excellent pizza, but you never knew when the health department would shut him down. We were teenagers so we never cared.

I can and have, not professionally but only on the extremely rare time that I want a thin New York style.
Otherwise it's the slap and turn method.
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Throwing dough in the air makes a mess. Just hands and granite.

I'll bet his Pizza ruled!

I learned to toss dough in Pittsburgh. I worked at a place called Bimbo's. Owned by a semi-known Pittsburgher named "Froggy" Morris.

The bouncer was a Mr Pittsburgh body builder champion. He looked a LOT like Lou Ferrigno.