# BEST PIZZA DOUGH

Learn how to make the best homemade pizza dough for a flavorful, crispy, and airy crust through a detailed fermentation process.

- Servings: 8 servings
- Total time: 1440 min
- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 27 ounces room temperature water
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 45 ounces bread flour
- 0.33 cup olive oil
- 4 teaspoons salt
- 4 teaspoons sugar or honey
- null homemade pizza sauce
- null freshly grated mozzarella
- null hand-cut pepperoni
- null bacon pieces

## Instructions

1. Add yeast to room temperature water in a large bowl.
2. Add olive oil to the water and yeast mixture.
3. Add a few scoops of flour at first to get it introduced.
4. Mix the initial flour mixture.
5. Drop in the honey or sugar.
6. Add more scoops of flour and mix again.
7. Once mostly incorporated, add the rest of the flour.
8. Finally, add the salt.
9. Watch the dough come together in the mixer.
10. Grease up a large bowl while the dough is mixing.
11. Once mixing is done, remove the dough hook.
12. Take the stretchy dough and place it into the greased container.
13. Cover the top of the dough with plastic wrap.
14. Throw the dough in the fridge for at least 12 hours for bulk fermentation.
15. Once bulk fermentation is done, get the dough out and pour olive oil into containers for the dough balls.
16. Cut the dough into 9.5-ounce dough balls.
17. Shape the dough into balls.
18. Drop the shaped dough balls into individual containers.
19. Slice the pepperoni.
20. Grate the mozzarella cheese.
21. Dust flour on a clean surface and flatten a dough ball to prepare it for stretching.
22. Stretch and toss the pizza dough into shape.
23. Place the dough on a pizza peel and spread homemade pizza sauce on it.
24. Sprinkle freshly grated mozzarella cheese over the sauce.
25. Arrange hand-cut pepperoni slices on the pizza.
26. Add bacon pieces on top of the pepperoni.
27. Carefully slide the pizza into a preheated pizza oven.
28. Rotate the pizza in the oven for even cooking.
29. Remove the cooked pizza from the oven.

## Equipment

- large bowl
- KitchenAid stand mixer
- dough hook
- large airtight container
- plastic wrap
- cutting board
- kitchen scale
- knife
- pizza peel
- pizza oven

## Tips

- The fermentation process is essential for a flavorful, crispy, airy crust.
- To avoid killing the yeast, add salt halfway through kneading.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6b53pUJ/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/704623af-7d48-4616-bced-50b414f6cfc9
- Extracted: 2025-08-26

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