Not after a beer and a couple of glasses of Wine…
Nice.
Someone needs to take control of the Lopwell pizza this year,and if they get it wrong will have to walk on the hot coals with Mrs p,but on all 4s as a consequence.
Sounds harsh,but pizzas matter 
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You’ve been speaking to the man from Kent again haven’t you
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Sounds like we have a volunteer!
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The only error last year was taking the defrosting dough out of the supplied plastic bags.
This meant it lost humidity and became sticky, like glue.
I’d advocate getting the same again but leaving the entire order in the bags to defrost overnight in a fridge.
Otherwise, the system was working fine.
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Ritchie?
Needs to be at room temperature to work with it.
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It was impossible to work with and when cooked was raw in the center. Also tasteless and zero leoparding but appart from that *****
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Not impossible for someone that knows what they are doing.
Interestingly, about a month after our annual dough blob lolz, last year, a friend of ours made pizzas when we were camping. He fed 17 of us, with excellent pizza and no fridge.
From what I could see, the difference was that as he started each one, he dumped the dough ball in a shallow bowl/deep plate, which had an inch of flour in the bottom. He flipped it over a couple of times in this and then worked the dough from the centre out in this plate until the pizza was roughly the circumference of the plate. Only then did he lift it out and start to pass it from fist to fist. Much, much, much more flour, which he kept topped up, and no surface until he put it on the peel, which was when he put on the other ingredients. He made it look laughably easy.
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No fridge is pertinent to what it sounds like happened last Lopwell.
I’ve done similar to your friend / also similar numbers, whilst out camping , making dough from scratch, stashing it in proving boxes and then production line prep and cook.
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At risk of repeating myself, it was because the dough defrosted in the air not in the sealed bags supplied. Just a mistake when they were all taken out the night before.
Which isn’t the advice and recommendation. You can defrost them slowly over night in a fridge or for at least 4 hours at room temp on the day (in their sealed bags). Then make sure they have an hour to get up to ambient.
We had exactly the same dough at Settle and it was 100% ok as we followed the instructions.
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Yup that was my fault but then there were no instructions in the box , it was only after Steve pointed out I went and checked their website.
I’ve only ever made from scratch
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The pizza Truth & Reconciliation committee
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Do not try and justify Pizza to the man of Kent - He doesn’t like it much and is not shy with his reasoning. As Keeper of the Boamigo he is also hell bent on palming it off on an unsuspecting meatiod - best to keep your heads down.
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No 
of blame pointed as it was just one of those things.
Despite knowing what went wrong there seem to be a fair few resurrections of people trying to fathom it. I have no reservations that this year will be epic by comparison.
Just get the Waitrose pre-mix, make up, leave for 1.5hr and away you go.
I’m ridled with reservations - Have you met me & Stu?
That’s a pretty low bar 