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EZ Homemade Wooden Pizza Dough Press!

Ahoy from Amoy! (Xiamen, China)

Razones Since coming to XMU in 1988, we've made a

tradition of making pizza every Christmas Eve (and
para many other holidays as well). We've even had $7,950 $4,950
hacerte Chinese TV crews film our pizza making (maybe
they'll give us the Nobel Pizza Prize?) How I've
Socio wanted a pizza dough press, but even today they
cost from USD 700 to 9.000. But I just made a great
homemade wooden pizza dough press for only USD
25! With nothing but a small drill, hammer and $4,750 $3,150
Calidad + screws, small hand saw, and wood glue, I made this
precio + más very practical, easy to use press in only 4 hours.
tiempo y
seguridad If you have very basic woodworking skills, just look at
para ti con the photos below and you'll see how to make it. The key
is--make it strong! This is basically just a very large $10,450 $3,750
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version of a wooden tortilla press, but it must be very
delivery y/o strong to handle the pressure needed to flatten a big
pick up ball of pizza dough. The good news is--it doesn't need
much pressure when the base and handle are so long.

You will need one 8-foot long 2"x4", a 17" long piece of $20,950 $6,450
1" x 10", two 18" diameter round pieces of 1" thick wood
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(or square if you can't make it round), a 10mm thick 4"
long bolt for the handle rod, two hinges, and lots of
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1st step: Place something between the two round (or square) pieces so they are $3,250 $32,000
1/8"to 1/4" apart and fasten them together with two hinges. The pressure will be
enormous, so bend the hinge over the top of the upper wooden piece and screw it on
both top and side. It will never come apart!

2nd step: On the opposite side, screw in the vertical assembly that will hold the
handle. That assembly is made from 3 pieces of 2"x4" (two are 9 inches, the center
piece is 3") that screwed together very securely (and wood glue on everything!) with

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4" screws.

3rd step: screw a 17"

long piece of 1" x 8" on
top of the upper round
piece (don't forget the
wood glue). Let it cover
the bent over hinges (I
chiseled out two grooves Aluminum
so they lay flat). This is
double insurance that
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the hinges won't fly off
when you press the handle.
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4th step: screw (and glue) the 1" x 1" x 7" strip on the upper round piece near the
handle (this handle will hit this and press it down). Top quality, a
great look and
5th: drill a hole in the
maximum energy-
handle (28" long 2"x4"
e>ciency. Contact
board) and fasten it to
the uprights with the
us!
10mm 4" bolt. No need
for a nut, or for it to
reach all the way
through, if you make the
furthest hole a bit small
and then force it in. It
won't come out.

6th step: Make some pizza! It's large and heavy, but it has to be to handle the
OPEN
pressure--and it works beautifully. But some wax paper or saran wrap on the wood
surfaces before placing the dough. Or better yet--we bought two 15" diameter silicon
baking pads. The dough presses smoothly between them and comes right off (but
you can use these pads to bake the pizza as well).

Again, I have no woodshop (not even a work table; I sat on the floor to make it), but it Blog Archive
took me only 4 hours to make it, cost only about $25, and my wife loves it (and I love
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