Your pizza dough

Less than 15 hours to go? Then make the quick dough: Short on time: pizza in one or two hours

1. Evening
   Mix by hand for about 5 minutes

   Bread scale* 1 g steps for flour, water and salt.

2. 15 minutes after mixing
   Let it rest first, then divide into balls

   Dough boxes* The balls rest overnight without drying out.

3. 12–14 h Overnight
   Let them rise at room temperature

   Balls haven't grown?

   Give them more time. A cool kitchen is the usual reason, and the balls are ready when they have grown by about half, whatever the clock says. Move the box to a warmer spot. Below 20 °C (68 °F), use twice the yeast next time.

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4. In the morning
   Grown by half? The whole box goes into the fridge

   Plans changed?

   No problem. Once the balls have grown by about half, they wait in the fridge: at around 4 °C (39 °F), after a while, nothing happens at all. Bake tomorrow instead, and take the box out 2 hours before.

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5. 2 hours before baking
   Take the box out
6. Stretching
   Stretch by hand, top quickly

   Ooni pizza peel* Gets the pizza in and out in one move.

   Dough tears?

   Usually the gluten is still tight or the dough is too cold. Put the ball down, cover it and let it rest for 15 to 30 minutes at room temperature, so the gluten relaxes. Then stretch again.

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7. Baking
   Bake as hot as it goes

   Ooni pizza oven* Optional, and my first choice. Your home oven works too, as the recipe shows.

   Crust not puffy?

   Press the ball flat from the centre outwards and leave the edge alone: that pushes the air into the rim. In a home oven, switch on the grill function, turn it as hot as it goes and bake on a steel or stone heated for at least 30 minutes.

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