Once you've learned how to make pizza dough from scratch, you realize that the flour you choose determines every other step — from forming the dough to deciding how hot the oven needs to be.

The hardest part of making homemade pizza is the crust. Planning plays a huge part in making the perfect dough. One of my ...

Make your own easy pizza dough with this authentic Italian recipe – it uses '00' flour to give the base a lighter, crisper texture. But if you have bread flour, it will still produce a great ...

1. To prepare the pizza dough, sprinkle the yeast over 1½ cups of warm (not lukewarm) water. Let it stand for a few minutes. 2. Combine the flour and salt in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle ...

Pizza dough: Combine the yeast with ¼ cup of lukewarm water and ¼ cup of flour. Mix to a smooth paste, cover with a towel, and leave to rise for 30 minutes. Mound the remaining flour on a cool ...

But you can replace it with an equivalent amount of flour if you don't have any. If you are making the pizza bases in advance, once the dough has been divided and rolled, cover and place into the ...