No special ingredients or techniques are required.

Preparing toppings and heating mybaking steelis easy.

Their tips include adding special ingredients to the dough and recommendations for how long to rest it.

someone forming pizza dough on a counter next to a pizza topped with tomato sauce and a baked pizza

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This is a perfect time to heat your oven or grill and prepare your toppings.

It’s responsible for pizzas signature chew.

Working the dough develops the protein, so it is often the tightest right after being made.

No-Knead Pizza Dough

Sally Vargas and Emma Christensen

The gluten is also tight when cold.

Patience always gets me there!

Pressing pizza dough into a circular shape.

Sally Vargas