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Homemade pizza. Making the dough creates a mess and requires delicate manual labor in several steps at precise times over more than 24 hours. Looks great on YouTube but that's just not me.
Edit: thanks for the suggestions, guys. Who knows, maybe one day... 😉
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It takes me an hour to make pizza from scratch at home. I'll grant it's messy but it's pretty easy!
- Prepare dough following steps 1-8 in the dough recipe above
- While your dough is rising, prepare the pizza sauce
- Liberally dust your pizza peel with corn meal (use more than you think you need!)
- Transfer the rolled-out dough onto the pizza peel and pinch the edges to form a crust
- Assemble and cook the pizza following steps 10-12 in the dough recipe above. I tend to use about 1/2 cup of pizza sauce, 4oz grated mozzarella, fresh basil leaves, and pepperoni, but the sky's the limit really
- Enjoy!
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The pizza dough tastes better when allowed to rest and rise slowly in the fridge. Using a ton of store bought yeast for a quick rise is fine, but planning out the dough the night before is better.
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Well it depends on what you want to achieve. Because there is also the oven, which os important, and your ingredient.
I love making pizza since I was a teenager and I learned slowly. Internet was great for learning cold fermentation or about different type of pizza.
But you can make a decent pizza quite easily.
Maybe try focaccia first it's super fun. This is the recipe I use.
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A ceramic stone in the oven has been a gamechanger for my pizzas.
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Yep, if you make pizza in a home oven it's really important to have a stone plate.
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I really like my lodge cast-iron one, but when I've used stones they seem to work just as well for New Haven style
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A middle ground I do often is buy frozen pizzas and then add my own extra toppings. They're usually so cheap and skimp anyhow that I look at it like buying a starter pizza shell.
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That's what I always do since there are decent options available nowadays.
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