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🍕 This Saturday We're Making Pizza 🍕
We just pulled the last of the English muffins off the rack, so we're switching gears. This weekend the Saturday Bake-Along is pizza, and there's a lane for every one of you. 🙌 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧. 🗽 New York Style is our anchor bake. Beginner-friendly, foldable, chewy, and it bakes in a regular home oven. No pizza steel required, no 900-degree wood oven. If you've never made pizza from scratch, this is your loaf. Mix the dough Friday, ball it, let it cold ferment in the fridge, and bake Saturday. You can also go same-day with a 2-hour rise if Friday gets away from you. 👉 https://skoo.ly/ny-style-pizza 🔥 Sourdough Neapolitan is the stretch track for anyone who wants the blistered, leopard-spotted crust and wants to put Vitale to work. Heads up: this one runs about 3 days. Build your levain now, today or tomorrow, so you're ready by Saturday. 20% inoculation, a long cold ferment, the works. This is the one that rewards patience. ⏳ 👉 https://skoo.ly/sd-neapolitan 👧 Kids Can Bake Personal Pan Pizza is for the family table. One 10-inch pizza per kid, they make their own sauce, shape their own crust, pick their own toppings. Same-day, no starter, done in an afternoon. If you've got little ones, pull up a chair and let them run the show. 🧒 👉 https://skoo.ly/kids-personal-pan 🍞 Two loaves, or in this case two pies, is the house standard. Pick your track, post your progress in the thread, and don't wait until Saturday to ask questions. The information is in the dough. 📸 Post your bakes. I want to see the crust, the crumb, the char, the kid-built chaos pizzas, all of it. Perfection is not required. Progress is. Henry ⭐🔥
🍕 This Saturday We're Making Pizza 🍕
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🗽 How New York Built the Fold
We're baking pizza this week, and before you stretch a single dough ball, I want to tell you where that foldable New York slice actually came from. Here's the short version: it wasn't built that way on purpose. Pizza showed up in New York as immigrant food, baked in coal ovens that were really bread ovens. Soft pies, eaten right there at the table. Then the gas deck oven came along, dried the crust out just enough, and the city did the rest. Rent, workers, lunch breaks on the move. The slice had to travel. The fold became the handle. That history is sitting right inside the dough we're making this week. Strong flour for structure, the right hydration so it bends without breaking, and an overnight cold rest for flavor. When you stretch your dough this Saturday, you're making a piece of that story. Watch the deck, then come bake it with us. You can find all our recipes at: https://recipepantry.app/ 🍕 New York Style recipe: https://skoo.ly/ny-style-pizza Henry ⭐🔥
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🍕 Pizza dough is just bread dough that learned to relax
Here's the thing most people get wrong about pizza. They treat it like a different animal from a loaf. It's not. Same flour, same water, same salt, same yeast or starter. If you can make bread, you can already make pizza. You just don't know it yet. So what's actually different? Two things. Hydration and relaxation. Hydration is how wet the dough is, and pizza usually runs a little drier than a high-hydration artisan loaf so you can stretch it thin without it tearing into lace. That's it. Same ingredients, different ratio. Relaxation is the one that trips people up. You go to stretch your dough and it fights you. It springs back, it won't hold the shape, it tears. That's not a bad dough. That's a tight dough. The gluten hasn't relaxed yet. Here's the fix, and it's the whole secret. Stop fighting it. Cover it, walk away, give it ten or fifteen minutes. Come back and it'll open like it wanted to all along. A rested dough stretches. A rushed dough resists. Watch the dough, not the clock. That's the lesson. Pizza isn't a new skill. It's bread that learned to relax, and your job is to let it. 🔥 Sourdough Neapolitan crew: today's your day to build the levain. That bake needs about three days of runway and Saturday's coming fast. Build it now and you're right on schedule. 👉 https://skoo.ly/sd-neapolitan ~ Henry ⭐🔥 All of our recipes can be found at: https://recipepantry.app/
🍕 Pizza dough is just bread dough that learned to relax
🍕 What the Recipe Doesn’t Tell You About Topping a Pizza
So I made the Sourdough Neapolitan today and I wanna walk you through what I learned, because the recipe gets you 80 percent of the way there, but the last 20 percent is where home pizza usually falls apart. Here’s what nobody tells you. Less sauce than you think. I spread mine in a thin layer with the back of a spoon, leaving a good half-inch of bare dough at the rim. You should still see flecks of dough through the sauce in places. Too much sauce is the number one reason a home pizza comes out soggy in the middle. Light is the word. Order matters. This is the part most folks get wrong. Sauce, then cheese (a moderate layer, not a snowdrift), then your heaviest toppings, then your lightest. Mine went: sauce, mozzarella, sausage, mushrooms sliced thin, pepperoni on top, a few rings of red onion to finish. Pepperoni on top is the move. It crisps at the edges and the oil renders down through everything below it. That’s the flavor you’ve been missing. Don’t crowd it. I stopped myself twice from adding more. Every topping needs a little space around it. Crowded pizza means soggy pizza, every time. You should see cheese peeking through. Mushrooms thin, and not too many. They put off water. A modest scatter of thin slices is plenty. Pile them on and you’ll have puddles. Basil goes on AFTER. Not before. Fresh basil burns to black in a hot oven and turns bitter. Bake the pizza, pull it out, then tear the leaves by hand and scatter them on the hot top. The residual heat wakes them up and you get that bright green color and real basil flavor. That’s how the good places do it. Now the move that took mine over the top. Before launching, I painted the bare rim with olive oil using my fingers, then gave it a pinch of flaky salt. That’s it. Three seconds of work. But that’s the difference between a pale, bland crust people leave on the plate and a rim that browns, blisters, and tastes like something. Salt on the rim makes you eat the whole slice. And the bake. Oven cranked as high as it’ll go, 500 or higher, with the stone or steel saturated for a full 45 minutes minimum. Not 10 minutes. The stone needs to be storing heat, not just warm on top. Pizza bakes from the bottom up.
🍕 What the Recipe Doesn’t Tell You About Topping a Pizza
Sourdough Pita bread (The Henry’s recipe)
My first attempt making sourdough pita bread from Henry’s Pantry. Even it’s not perfect, but it’s very good taste. I’m happy with it. It was soft, and very good. I want to say thank you for @Henry Hunter That all the recipe you shared in the pantry are incredible with a great information. Good tips. Every little details that you give in the recipe is very useful. I can say that if I pay attention to all steps. I will never failed to make the great bread at home.
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