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How to make pizza at home.

Five steps. Dough, sauce, heat, a first pie, then scale the next batch. No restaurant. No kit you will not use.

  1. 01

    Make a dough

    Weigh flour, water, salt, yeast. Neapolitan if you have fire. New York if you have a kitchen oven and a steel. Same-day if you want pie tonight.

    How to make pizza dough

  2. 02

    Crush a sauce. Don’t simmer it.

    Whole tomatoes, salt, a thread of oil. The oven cooks it. A jar that already tastes like gravy belongs on pasta.

    Homemade pizza sauce

  3. 03

    Heat the floor, not the air

    A steel in a kitchen oven, or a gas oven on the patio. Preheat until the stone is hot. Launching early is how you get a floppy centre.

    Steel vs stone

  4. 04

    Bake a Margherita first

    Light sauce, torn mozzarella. If this pie works, every other pie is a topping change.

    Sunday Margherita

  5. 05

    Scale the next batch

    One pie for a weeknight. Two for a guest. The calculator keeps the baker’s percentages honest so you don’t waste dough.

    Dough calculator