How To Defrost Pizza Dough In Microwave

It's Friday night, and your kids are bugging you to make pizza for dinner. You remembered you have some frozen dough but defrosting them would require a lot of patience from your kids. Your microwave would be your lifesaver. Let's learn how to defrost pizza dough in microwave oven as well as other ways for you to defrost it. 

Defrosting Pizza Dough

There are numerous options in defrosting your pizza dough.

1. Use your microwave
2. Put it in the refrigerator
3. Soak it in cold or warm
4. Leave it in the kitchen counter

Frozen Pizza Dough On Microwave

How to defrost pizza dough in microwave is a no-sweat process. It's easy and fast. However, this method is not that recommended because it can cook the dough during the defrosting process. Therefore, you have to be careful if you choose to defrost using your microwave.

1. To start, get your frozen dough, microwavable plate, a plastic wrapper, and oil.
   
2. Grease the plate before you put the dough.
   
3. Grease your pizza dough as well as the plastic wrapper. This will ensure that the plastic wrapper will not stick when you cover the dough.
   
4. Put the pizza dough inside the microwave and set it high for 25 seconds. This will kick start the defrosting process.
5. Take the dough out of the microwave and repeat steps two to step four. Don't forget to flip the dough on the plate before putting it back in the microwave for another 25 minutes.
6. Take the dough out again and check that it should not rise.
   
7. Put the dough back in the microwave, but this time set it in defrost setting for about three to five minutes.
   
8. Once thawed, take it out and let it stay at room temperature allowing the dough to rise.
   
9. Once you see that it rises, proceed with the baking steps.

Frozen Pizza Dough On Fridge

Letting your frozen pizza dough sit inside the refrigerator is very time consuming as it usually requires you to defrost overnight. So, if you are in a hurry, this is not the best method to use.

1. Get the frozen pizza dough out of the freezer, but don't remove the storage bag.
   
2. Secure that the bag it shot tight. Next is to put the dough in a big bowl where it has space to expand.
   
3. Put the dough inside the fridge and let it stay there overnight to soften and rise.
   
4. Next is to remove the dough out of its storage bag and put it at room temperature for an hour.
   
5. After an hour, your dough is ready for baking.

Frozen Pizza Dough Soaked In Cold Or Warm Water

You can defrost your pizza dough by soaking it in cold water. Let it stay underwater for almost two hours. Once you see that it has risen and tiny bubbles start to appear, take the dough out of the water and its storage bag. Next, leave it at room temperature for an hour before you bake it.

Soaking the frozen pizza dough in warm water will do the work as well. Take note that the water should just be warm and not too hot, so the dough won't get cooked. Submerge the dough in the water while it is still in its storage bag. Take out the dough every ten minutes and change the water. Then soak again until the dough thawed and rises.

Frozen Pizza Dough In The Counter

This is by far the easiest way of defrosting pizza dough. Take it out of the microwave and leave it in the counter until it defrosts. It will take roughly 2 hours.

Conclusion

Microwave has proven its effectiveness and efficiency in making life easier for every one of us. It heats food faster, cooks some recipes faster, defrosts meat and other frozen food faster.