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I typically buy my dough from Trader Joe's but what to start doing it myself. There's a recipe in the article, but anyone else have a goto recipe they love?


https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/07/basic-new-york-s...

Almost anything on serious eats by Kenji is good imo. There is a whole section on pizza but the above recipe is my favorite.


Jaime Oliver’s dough is pretty much impossible to get wrong: https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/bread-recipes/pizza-doug...


Edit: The video in the article is a pretty good dough "recipe"

If you go down the rabbit hole, when making your dough try to source some double zero flour (00 flour) and experiment with "hydration" percentages which is the ratio of water and flour. These are the two ingredient factors I have found to have the most impact. The "recipes" are much easier than you think - it's mostly a waiting game


Just a quick thought: depending on how adventurous you feel, you might consider buying ready-made pizza dough from the supermarket, and start with that.

If you like your pizza, the next iteration would be to also make the dough yourself. Expect several iterations / attempts until you can make it well and reproducible, and get a good feel for how much you need.

The first few batches of pizza dough I made were not very good :-).


Former pizza cook (US based) here...

This recipe is worthy of your attention: https://www.wpr.org/recipe-overnight-straight-pizza-dough


A lot of failed attempts is, undoubtely, the most important ingredient.

Anything else will be affected by room temperature, humidity, oven performance, wind direction, campanilismo, etc.

Buy flour, yeast, salt, oil and experiment.


https://www.pizzamaking.com/pizza-recipes.html

Perhaps start with the New York style


Specifically this one: https://www.pizzamaking.com/lehmann-nystyle.php

Which should really be called a Roman-style pizza tonde dough, which is the style that was predominantly adopted in NYC.




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