Sourdough Neapolitan-Style Pizza: High Heat, the Right Flour, and Why Your Home Oven Can Do This

Sourdough Neapolitan-Style Pizza: High Heat, the Right Flour, and Why Your Home Oven Can Do This

I still think about the smoke. Not fondly — not yet — but I get there eventually. It was a Tuesday night, my kitchen smelled like a campfire, and I was standing in front of my open oven door fanning a dish towel at the smoke detector while my sourdough neapolitan pizza home oven experiment … Read more

Sourdough Pizza Dough: The Crispy-Base, Chewy-Crust Recipe That Ruined Takeout for Me

Sourdough Pizza Dough: The Crispy-Base, Chewy-Crust Recipe That Ruined Takeout for Me

I want to tell you about the night I confidently slid a raw pizza directly onto the floor of my oven. Not onto the rack. Not onto the stone. Onto the actual oven floor, where it promptly draped itself over the heating element like a sad, doughy flag of defeat. Sauce everywhere. Cheese pooling into … Read more