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

Dough, time, temperature

Neapolitan 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.

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