New York-style pizza at home, v2.0

Summary by Krater

The creator demonstrates an updated technique for making New York-style pizza at home using hand-mixed dough, whole milk mozzarella, and a steel baking sheet, concluding that this method produces foldable, crispy slices.

From the video

Answers: How do you make New York-style pizza at home?

• New York-style pizza dough preparation
• Hand-kneading pizza dough
• Cold fermenting pizza dough
• Baking pizza on steel in home oven
• Choosing mozzarella for pizza
• Pizza sauce selection and application

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups water
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp active dry yeast
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp salt
• 5 cups bread flour
• 6-8 oz whole milk low-moisture mozzarella cheese
• parmesan cheese
• about 7 oz canned crushed tomatoes
• dried oregano
• cornmeal

What it concludes

• You do not need an expensive stand mixer to make good pizza dough.
• Blooming yeast is not necessary unless checking if it is alive.
• Baking steel is more thermally conductive than stone for home ovens.
• Whole milk low-moisture mozzarella tastes better than part-skim on pizza.
• Do not pre-cook canned tomatoes or pizza sauce before adding it to the pizza.
• Chefs' knives are safer and give more control than pizza cutters on home cutting boards.