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The shortest time to pizza dough is the one you pick up from the grocery store in 10 minutes. No difference from whatever you'll make at home, and makes a great pizza. I've brought it with me in a cooler when camping and made pizza over the campfire. Next time to avoid having to ice it down, I'll just start a no-knead one the first night I make camp. Whatever works, works

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There are some really good doughs out there. Whole Foods has a really good one. However I can make a better dough at home. I use a higher gluten flour (14%), diastatic malt powder and cold ferment for a few days. To my taste it’s better than any dough I’ve purchased. But yes, unnecessary.

May as well buy the whole pizza at the supermarket then, no difference from whatever you'll make at home.

Never thought I’d have to say this but: putting a whole pizza in your backpack seems harder than putting pizza ingredients in your backpack

Does it really though - one flat thing vs. a bunch of jars and packets, or at least a bag of pre-portioned toppings and one of oil/sauce? In addition to your pre-made dough + a rolling pin and mat of course. Unless it's supplied pre-rolled and part-baked, which apart from being even worse and more significantly diverged from what you could make (fresh) at home, means you've got the flat thing anyway that could have been pre-topped for approximately no extra space cost.

But anyway, no I was surely obviously not responding purely to the camping anecdote, nor was other commenter making it solely about that, thread is about pizza, not backpacking.

Certainly. But I prefer making food myself over buying premade.

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