How do I make pizza?

You mean with dough from scratch? Because I just use the Boboli crust from the grocery store, spread the included pizza sauce tomato paste, cover with mozarella cheese, pepperonis, mushrooms, olives, pineapples, corn, peppers, fresh tomatos, goat cheese, sun dried tomatos, etc, etc, whatever I have laying around. Oven, boom. Crack open a beer and eat a pizza that took effort and twice the $ of ordering.

Step 1) Call pizza hut
Step 2) whip our ur credit card

Put some baking stones into your oven and heat @350-500.

Make a dough ball with flour, some yeast thats been activated, some olive oil, some sugar and a little salt. Mix that togther in a big mixing bowl for about 10 minutes.

Take out the blob of dough and put it down on a floured table. Cut off pieces about 14 oz and roll and knead each piece into a firm ball. Let these balls sit covered for at least 1/2 hour to over night.

Make sauce with crushed tomatoes, tomatoe paste, and water. Add fresh garlic, basil, oregano, crushed red pepper, salt, sugar, a basil leaf. Mix well.

Prepare Cheese by shredding mozzorello.

Take firm dougballs and punch them down getting most of the big air out. Knead with your fingers the balls so they are flat and have no bubbles. Form a crust by placing forefinger on the outside of ball and push from the inside to form about a 1/8 in. border. Hand toss untill the ball is about 14" taking care to toss evenly and leave no weak spots and keep pre-frormed border in tact. (hand tossing is tricky, a tip is to not use your thumbs and go a little at a time overlapping)

PLace pie onto cornmeal lined wooden peal. Ladel some sauce and spread it out stopping just before the broder. Add cheese and spread cheese out to border. Add toppings such as peperoni, black olivs, ssg, anchovies, etc...

Carefully slide the pie off of the peel and into the pre-heated oven. Bake untill cheese starts to crisp and dough looks brown.

Enjoy!

let me tell you, unless you are doing it for fun for some people or something, making pizza like mentioned above,

takes time, elbow grease, creates ton of mess, and it actually costs same if not more than delivery.

and unless you are a veteran at doing it with the correct spices and salt here and water there measurements and etc..

your pizza does not really taste all that full and rich like it would like you get at some pizza hut or your favorite mom and pop pizza restaurant.

Shoe, Yes, it can be a quite a bit of work to make your own pizza, particularly if you make the dough. However, with that work comes satisfaction - a sense of happiness at having created something tasty. Personally, I don't really like the type of pizza that you get at any of the chain stores. I prefer a simple pizza with a very thin crust and very few toppings. One of my favourites to make at home involves spreading some home-made basil pesto over a thin base (in which I've lightly pricked holes with a skewer so that the pesto oil penetrates a little), then placing some thinly sliced eggplant over the pesto. I brush the eggplant with a little olive oil, and then sprinkle over a little garlic and some shaved parmesan, as well as some ripped pieces of parma ham. Pop it into the oven for about 15 mins. Delicious, and unlike anything that I've seen at a pizza restaurant.

Maybe the LondonLounge could give you some great recipes for hand-made bepoke pizza. Seriously dude this is StyleForum did you ever think of going to a COOKING SITE?

Neapolitan style, de rigueur, with the official LL olive oil!!!

Be prepared to fuck it up the first time or two. I never appreciated pizzerias until I tried to produce one at home from scratch.

I pretty much gave up, because it's so hard to reproduce the sort of thin crust I like without a proper pizza oven.

For those who have failed making their own crust, it is the biggest obstacle in making a good pizza. It's honestly too much trouble to make your own. Kind of like making your own pasta from scratch - save yourself an hour and find a decent packet brand. Just try and avoid the thick bases, they're pretty crap. A thinner base will help bring out the flavour of the topping. I make my own pizza at least once a week, it's very easy to make a good quality pizza. I buy very thin bases (probably about 2mm thick), in Australia they have a brand call Bazaar. Then you do the usual deal, use name-brand pizza-sauce from a bottle, quality mozarella, and get sopressa, pepperoni, etc from the deli (sometimes I get some ordinary sausages, cut them up and put them on as well). Proscuitto is good too. Kalamata olives, red capsicum, some mushrooms and another fine layer of cheese (or grate parmesan for a nice sharp edge to the flavour). Some basil and oregano are always a hit. WARNING: Lots of things go well on pizza, avocado doesn't. It really is easy once you do it a few times, healthier than the pizza chains, just make sure you use quality ingredients. Example, using some garlic chives and red onion as well: It's also a great activity if you're having a girl over. Make the pizza together, put it in the oven, have a couple of wines while you're waiting for it to cook then sit down in front of a movie together and enjoy your creation. If she's not after that, find another girl. Making pizzas is also a great family activity. Gets the kids involved and teaches them about eating quality food.

please remember for some of us SF is home. there is no other place to go. this is internet.

We make pizza at home a lot. It doesn't taste like Pizza Hut pizza because it is not full of disgusting chemicals. The ingredients are different. You use real cheese, not that crazy Mozzeralla for grating. Fewer toppings, less of everything. I like it a lot more and it is much better for you.

I actually had Pizza Hut pizza recently after not having it in a long time. The crust is absolutely saturated with butter or grease or something similar. It was really heavy and kind of disgusting. Even without making pizza at home, there are many, many much better pizzerias that are available to most (I think I'd even choose Domino's ahead of PH, and that's saying something).

I love Pizzeria Uno. I know it's probably just as synthetic, but oh man.