How To EASILY Hand Stretch Pizza Dough For Amazing Homemade Pizza

How To EASILY Hand Stretch Pizza Dough For Amazing Homemade Pizza

For many people, stretching pizza dough into a circle (or square) that can be topped and baked is the most difficult part of the pizza making process. You may have experienced this yourself, especially if your dough constantly snaps back into its original shape no matter how many times you pull it in every direction….

How To Make Pizza Dough Balls For Proofing: Step By Step Guide

How To Make Pizza Dough Balls For Proofing: Step By Step Guide

When I first started my pizza making journey almost two decades ago, the most difficult part was handling the pizza dough. I didn’t understand how a cold, wet, and sticky mixture of water and flour could turn into something that can be tossed and stretched like you see on TV. The problem was that I…

Best Temperature For Homemade Pizza In a Home Oven

Best Temperature For Homemade Pizza In a Home Oven

Different styles of pizza require different cooking temperatures to get the best results—and homemade pizza is no exception. Homemade pizza should be cooked at a temperature of 500F (260C) or higher for 10-12 minutes when using a pizza steel, pizza stone, or parchment paper. If you’re making homemade pizza using a baking pan, it should…

How To Defrost Pizza Dough – From Frozen To Edible Fast

How To Defrost Pizza Dough – From Frozen To Edible Fast

Pizza dough takes time to make, so many people opt to make a large batch and freeze it. Others buy it frozen from the grocery store to begin with. Working with frozen pizza dough isn’t difficult at all, but many people struggle when it comes to how and when to defrost it. The best way…

How Much Yeast Do You Put In Pizza Dough? An Expert Answers.

How Much Yeast Do You Put In Pizza Dough? An Expert Answers.

If you’ve made pizza dough before, you know it can sometimes be a challenge to figure out the right balance of ingredients to get that perfectly airy and tasty crust. Among the most important of these ingredients is yeast – but how much yeast should actually you put in a pizza dough? In general, you…

When To Add Basil To Pizza – Your Guide To Using Fresh & Dry Basil

When To Add Basil To Pizza – Your Guide To Using Fresh & Dry Basil

Basil is one of the most common pizza seasonings around the world. It’s in the sauce, sprinkled on top of the cheese and sometimes added as fresh leaves. But when should basil be added to a pizza? In a home oven, fresh basil should be added to pizza after its baked. In a wood-fired oven,…

How Does Pizza Dough Rise? The Yeast – Gluten Connection

How Does Pizza Dough Rise? The Yeast – Gluten Connection

I get a lot of questions about pizza dough preparation – how to handle the dough, how to knead it, proof it, etc. But quite often these questions reveal to me that lots of people don’t understand the most basic concept of baking – how pizza dough rises. Pizza dough rises when the yeast consumes…