How I Made the Perfect NYC Pizza (Full Documentary)

🍕 Discover The Dough Handling Secrets To Make Perfect Pizza EVERY Time

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📃 Table of Contents
0:00 - Episode 1 - I Tested the Internet’s Best New York Pizza Recipes
12:49 - Episode 2 - The real secret to NY-Style pizza (It's not NYC water)
26:22 - Episode 3 - What's the Best Cheese for NY-Style Pizza?
34:29 - Episode 4 - How I Bake NY-Style Pizza Without a Pizza Oven
48:47 - Episode 5 - Making a "NY-Style" Sauce That's ACTUALLY Authentic
1:04:24 - Episode 6 - I Tried 9 NYC Slices in a Day: Here's What I Found
1:18:14 - Episode 7 - How to Make a REAL New York Slice at Home

Written and Filmed by: Charlie Anderson
Edited by: Van Clements and Charlie Anderson

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🍕 Discover The Dough Handling Secrets To Make Perfect Pizza EVERY Time

[chrishewitt]

Your New York pizza is the only home made recipe on youtube that ACTUALLY looks like New York pizza. Love your videos man!

[themasalaman]

man, this is what YouTube is all about. Someone taking their interests and passion and being able to express it in their own eyes. I feel like the past month we've seen people talk about creators quitting the platform, but I think it makes wave for new icons to come to the forefront. Charlie, you're one of them. This video was so well paced, detailed, and most importantly fun. Can't wait to see what this next year has in store for your food adventures.

[configuremakeinstall]

The pizza nerds of the world appreciate all your hard work. Well done.

[traviszuluaga]

As someone that used to work at a pizza joint, Full Red was the brand we used for the sauce. We didn’t cook it either. We added sugar and other spices and mixed it with a concrete mixer attached to a drill.

[chrisokupski]

I cannot thank this channel enough. I went and watched so many different recipes for a NY style pizza and tried many, not what I was wanting. Growing up in NJ and living in Maine the pizza sucks up here. I followed his recipe to the exact instructions and it was everything I’ve wanted and missed in a pizza. I tweaked my own sauce recipe but the dough was what I struggled most and I can say I’ll never use a different dough recipe ever, and the free to use excel sheet he created is a life saver, thank you!

[stottnoble]

Thanks for this video series and all the research. I followed you spreadsheet recipes and techniques and produced a pizza that my daughter declared, "Takes me straight back to my time in Brooklyn! You nailed it!. This is a New York slice!"

Didn't even have to fish for the compliment. High praise indeed!

[theiaraine]

My family is from New York so I grew up knowing what I was looking for. I am so lucky to live near an authentic pizza shop despite living across the country. I love this series and definitely want to see more from this your channel.

[btvr]

Thanks for all your hard work and research! I started making my own pizza with a pizza oven I got for my pellet grill. It achieves temps up to 800 degrees if I want it that hot. I use 550 and the stone gets to about 650 degrees. Cooks the pizza perfectly in about 5 minutes! Nice crispy crust but still chewy! I'm originally from NY and wanted to replicate NY style pizza. Well tonight I made my own using your spread sheet. Very pleased with the outcome! I made the dough and sauce based on your videos. Excellent!!

[charliep]

I'm only 26 minutes in, but I couldn't wait to comment and say THIS DOCUMENTARY IS AMAZING !!! I love the analysis and rationale in making each decision as it pertained to the crust. I'm so glad I can watch this all in one go !

[yunak]

Such a solid series and thank you for putting all into one video! Best Pizza, Luigis, and Scarr's are my tops in the world (so far) and it's no surprise they made your list.

[jnprather]

I'm going to refer to this as the Balls Deep NYC Pizza Recipe™, because man you went in hard on this. A man after my own heart.

[andrewf]

Recently discovered your channel and was literally minutes away from trying out this recipe for the first time by going through all the videos. Perfect timing thanks so much for putting this together!

[kschweizer]

Moving the pizza to the bottom rack gets you closer, but what works for me is using TWO pizza stones on different racks. Do 5 minutes on upper rack, then move to lower rack to finish off. The upper stone acts as a shield and keeps cheese from separating while the crust browns.

[ElectronLord]

You're a saint for doing this amount of research and sharing it.

[justus]

Dude. This is some quality content with solid advice. As i'm now 4000miles away from NY, your description of all the little features is mega helpful in recreating it here

[dogeholdr]

I dont usually comment on youtube but this actually deserves a well done excellent video. Im a real pizza nerd and loved the science behind the pizza in this. You got a subscribe my man keep up the gret work.

[corporate.security]

I was today years old when I learned that there is a whole ass YouTube channel dedicated to just... pizza. Like, video essays, high quality produced content, fancy shots, you know the works. Everything you'd expect out of a successful YouTube channel, but it's just ... pizza. Man, there really is a community for everything out there.

[jbigs]

Charlie, OMFG...FINALLY! This is the best total pizza I have ever made! My family loved it, thank you soooo much! Cento was the way to go!!! Dough has so much flavor! I wish I could upload photos on here!

[BlakeYuckert]

Dude, I don't what to say other than I owe you infinite appreciation for putting this together. I've been struggling on my pizza efforts and would have experienced many more (probably years) of struggle if it were not for this documentary. I can't wait to put all this information together, and I love the spreadsheet to help us get even closer to executing to perfection -- my kinda person with that move!!! I love to see content like this and hope you keep the amazing effort going. Thank you!