Make pizza from scratch
Flour, water, yeast and salt, and your own oven. Start with an easy same-day pan pizza, then stretch round pizzas on a hot stone. Here's the video that hooks everyone, and everything you need for your first pizza.
Space neededA counter and a home oven
First projectA sheet pan pizza, same day
Skill levelBeginner-friendly
Good forFamily nights, any age
The video that hooks everyone
Making Neapolitan pizza dough like a top pizza chef
A Neapolitan pizza with a puffy, blistered rim, red sauce, torn white cheese and basil, and how to make the dough behind it. Press play and see why it hooks people.
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Tool list
What you need to start
Everything you need for your first project, and nothing you don't. A home oven, a stone or steel and a peel make great pizza. The pizza oven can wait.
Starter kit
01Digital kitchen scaleDough is weighed in grams. It's how you get the same dough every time.
02Bread flourHigher protein for a chewy, stretchy dough. "00" pizza flour is the next step.
03Instant yeastMixes straight into the flour. No proofing in water needed.
04Big mixing bowl with a coverRoom for the dough to double.
05Bench scraperCuts and lifts sticky dough.
06Rimmed sheet panFor your first pizza: a thick, crispy pan pizza.
07Pizza stone or steelHolds heat and crisps the bottom of round pizzas.
08Pizza peelA flat paddle to slide pizza onto the stone and back out.
09Thick oven mittsThe oven, stone and pan get hotter than anything else in the kitchen.
The manual tells you what to look for when you buy each one.
- 1Not preheating the stoneA stone needs 45 minutes to an hour in a hot oven. A cold stone gives a pale, soft bottom.
- 2Rolling with a pinA pin presses out the air that makes the rim puff. Stretch by hand, and leave the edge alone.
- 3Piling on toppingsToo much sauce and cheese makes a soggy middle. Less is more, especially on a round pizza.
