Crust & Ember Dough, time and temperature for people baking pizza at home.

Dough, time, temperature

Dough and heat decide your pizza

Pizza at home is decided by two variables the baker controls — what is in the dough and how much heat reaches it — and almost everything else is decoration. Every piece isolates one of those variables, states the numbers, and tests changes against a domestic oven rather than a deck oven the reader will never own. Toppings are treated as a load on the bake, not as a subject in themselves.

Neapolitan pizza

New York style pizza

How to make New York style pizza at home with a 60-63% hydration dough, cold fermentation, thin stretching and a 285-300C bake.

6 min read

Detroit style pizza

Deep dish pizza

How to make deep dish pizza at home: pan dough, lining, build order, bake time and temperature, and releasing the pie.

7 min read

Pizza dough formulation

Bread flour pizza dough

A reference on bread flour for pizza dough: what it absorbs, how to adjust hydration and mixing, and what the crust does in a domestic oven.

3 min read

Pizza dough formulation

Pizza dough recipe

A baker's percentage walkthrough for pizza dough, from flour choice and mixing through fermentation, balling and scaling to your pan.

2 min read