Ask a serious pizza maker what separates good dough from unforgettable dough, and the answer is almost always time — specifically, cold time. This 72-hour cold ferment pizza dough spends three days in the refrigerator, where slow fermentation builds layers…
Every great pizza you have ever loved started as four humble ingredients: flour, water, salt, and yeast. Learning how to make pizza dough from scratch is the single highest-leverage skill in home pizza making — it costs pennies, takes about…
Some of the best pizza in America never sees a pizza oven — it comes out of a cast iron skillet, with a deeply browned, almost fried bottom crust and a ring of caramelized cheese fused to the pan’s edge.…
Cauliflower crust pizza has a reputation problem, and honestly, it earned it. Too many recipes produce a sad, floppy disc that steams instead of crisps, tastes faintly of boiled vegetable, and falls apart the moment you pick up a slice.…
Dessert pizza is the happy ending your pizza night has been missing. Imagine a warm, golden crust — crisp at the edges, chewy in the middle — spread with silky chocolate hazelnut, dotted with fresh strawberries, and finished with a…
There is a special kind of joy that comes from eating pizza for breakfast, and an even bigger one that comes from making it yourself. This breakfast pizza recipe takes everything you love about a lazy weekend brunch — crispy…
Swap the tomato sauce for vibrant green basil pesto and pizza becomes something entirely different: herbaceous, garlicky, nutty, and rich, with none of tomato’s acidity. A great pesto chicken pizza recipe pairs that aromatic base with tender, well-seasoned chicken, melted…
Mushroom pizza is where simplicity becomes sophistication. Earthy, deeply savory mushrooms, sweet garlic butter, fresh thyme, and melted mozzarella on a blistered crust — it tastes like something from a wood-fired restaurant, but it is one of the easiest pizzas…
Strip away the tomato sauce and pizza reveals a quieter, creamier side. A classic white pizza recipe replaces red sauce with garlic-infused olive oil and builds on it with dollops of ricotta, melted mozzarella, and a snowfall of Parmesan —…
Buffalo wings are perfect bar food — but they are messy, bony, and gone in minutes. Buffalo chicken pizza takes everything people love about wings — the tangy heat of cayenne-vinegar sauce, the cooling richness of blue cheese, the tender…
Few pizzas inspire stronger opinions than the Hawaiian. People either love the sweet-salty contrast of ham and pineapple or consider fruit on pizza a personal offense. Here is the thing both camps can agree on: most Hawaiian pizzas are badly…
There is a special kind of luxury in a pizza where cheese is not a topping but the entire point. A proper four cheese pizza recipe — the Italian quattro formaggi — layers four distinct cheeses over a white, sauceless…
A veggie supreme should be the most colorful pizza on the table — jewel-like bell peppers, earthy mushrooms, briny olives, sweet red onion, all tangled in melted mozzarella over bright tomato sauce. But anyone who has loaded up a pizza…
Sweet, smoky barbecue sauce instead of tomato. Tender chicken with caramelized edges. Red onion with a bite, a tangle of melted mozzarella and smoked Gouda, and a drizzle of fresh cilantro to finish. A proper BBQ chicken pizza recipe is…
Few sights in the pizza world are as satisfying as pepperoni slices that have curled into little crispy cups, their edges charred and their centers holding tiny pools of rendered, spicy fat. That cup-and-char effect is the hallmark of a…
If there is one pizza every home cook should master, it is this one. A classic margherita pizza recipe is the purest expression of what pizza can be: a blistered, leopard-spotted crust, bright San Marzano tomato sauce, pools of melted…
