Make Better Pizza at Home
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If you’re new here: welcome, y’all!
I’m Dominic.
I make pizza at home and show you exactly how to do it - using real dough, real ovens, and techniques that actually work in a normal kitchen.
This page is your map.
Skim if you just want a recipe. Dive in if you want to understand why things work.
🍕 NAVIGATION 🍕
Make Pizza Now (Free 2-Hour Sheet Pan Pizza)
My Go-To New York–Style Dough (Home Oven)
How I Bake Pizza in a Home Oven
Deep Dives (Dough Science & Technique)
How to Use This Page
If you just want to make a pizza tonight, try my easy two hour pizza recipe.
Check out my current NY style recipe to replicate that slice shop experience, at home.
Go to All Pizza Doughs for primers on styles like Detroit style, Chicago Tavern style, and Sicilian.
Head to Deep Dives if you want to go in depth on topics like fermentation and hydration
Save this page and come back to keep learning
This page has links to full recipes and stories. Those pages have full measurements, timelines, and photos.
⏰Make Pizza Now (Free 2-Hour Sheet Pan Pizza)
Use this dough when:
You’re baking in a home oven
You want pizza with minimal fuss using gear and ingredients you already have
You want a soft interior with a crispy bottom
Easy Steps:
Mix
Build structure
Stretch into the pan
Let it rise
Top and bake!
🗽My Go-To New York–Style Dough (Home Oven)
Use this dough when:
You can wait at least one day for pizza
You want a crispy, foldable slice at home
You want a pizza you can make into a weekly tradition
Keys:
Moderate hydration
24-72 hour cold ferment
Balanced elasticity and extensibility
Smart topping for no flop
All Pizza Dough Recipes
As pizza traveled around the world, it adapted to the tastes, tools, and techniques unique to the pizza lovers in each place.
This page is my encyclopedia of doughs and pizza styles.
Can’t get make the trip to Detroit to try their famous rectangular pizza cooked in blue steel pans? Here you can learn the formula and apply your own ‘racing stripes’ at home and get that beautiful fried cheese crust - the frico - by following my proven recipes.
🧪The Pizza Sauce Formula
Pizza sauce starts with a simple foundation.
All you need is tomatoes + salt.
Where you take it from there depends on your tastes and the pizza style you’re baking.
This sauce explainer will give you the formula plus all the variations you’ll want to know to adapt to various styles of pizza.
🔥 How I Bake Pizza in a Home Oven
An outdoor pizza oven is nice to have, but you don’t need one to make great pizza at home.
In this guide I’ll show you the process and techniques I use to bake great pizza in my normal home oven.
It all starts with a baking stone or steel.
🤿 Deep Dives (Dough Science & Technique)
For when you want to learn more about the why behind the recipe.
I’m always learning more about dough and pizza science - come learn alongside me!
🔧 Gear
The gear I actually use
👋 One Last Thing
Pizza is supposed to be fun.
If something doesn’t work, it’s not a failure. It’s information.
If you ever get stuck: comment, message, or email me.
I love making pizza and I want you to love it, too! I’m here to help.