Ingredients
Equipment
Method
Pizza Dough (the hardest part)
- Start making your pizza dough 3 days before you plan on cooking it
- Start with 300 grams of flour. For this cook, I used King Arthur 00 flour but I recommend bread flour for the best crisp
- Mix the water and yeast until yeast is fully disolved
- Once disolved, using a stand mixer - mix on the slowest setting for 2 minutes. Pour water/yeast into the dough
- After 2 minutes, add the salt, sugar and olive oil and mix for 10 minutes on slowest setting
- Cover with a towel and let sit at room temperature for 1-2 hours
- After that time, flour your hands and counter top
- Start kneading the dough into a ball and seal the underside
- Add to 16oz container
- Make sure to use sealed round 16oz containers. This is incredibly important to getting a round pie!
- Put in fridge for 72 hours
Day of Cooking
- Take your pizza dough out of the fridge 4 hours before cooking and let sit sealed at room temp
- Pre-heat your oven till your pizza stone is 600 degrees
- Once your stone is 600 degrees for 10 minutes, you can drop the temperature to 500 degrees to now burn the top - like I did :)
- On a floured surface - stretch the dough into a circle (does not need to be perfect)
- Flour your pizza peel and put dough on the peel
- Starting with your sauce spread throughout the dough
- Add cheese, pepperoni and any additional toppings you would like
- GLENTLY slide your pizza off the peel into the oven
- A tip for this is to lightly raise edges of the pizza dough and blow air with your mouth underneath it. They quickly sliding it into the pizza oven
- Depending on your likeness, you can cook for however long you want. For this one I did 7 minutes at 500 degrees
- Using pizza peel take out of oven and let pizza rest on a wire rack so the bottom of the pizza does not steam and get soggy
- Rest for 2 minutes
- Slice and eat!