60-Second Video Tips: A New Way to Work with Pizza Dough

Homemade crust is a fantastic foundation when making pizza, but sometimes the dough can be tricky to stretch out while risking tears or uneven surfaces. America's Test Kitchen's Dan Souza shows an easy way to flatten out pizza dough using your hands, a kitchen counter, and the natural pull of gravity.

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[jnoodle]

how can you get the dough to glide and stretch when it keeps sticking to the surface? Is it covered in flour?

[LNER]

I make lots of homemade Pizza. I think I'll use that method next time.

[zenwaichi]

You are actually supposed to let gravity do the work by holding the somewhat flattened dough on the back of your hand and rotate it. No fancy moves just steady rotations

[FearArDoiteain]

Looks good except ... he didn't finish it. Make it 12" and get it onto a pizza peel or into a pan. I want to see the entire process yielding no holes; not 1/2 the method ending with a "there you go".

[danieladams]

Or maybe use cornmeal and stretch it?

[simonetaddia]

You make very good video, by the way, this

[Walker-xf]

omg! are you joking? I don't even have to try to know it's not working!

[FearArDoiteain]

leave out the little blue pill next time

[Bronzemen]

Ummm. No if you were to do that while your 6 orders deep your gonna have some angry customers. It literally takes me 15 seconds to stretch out a skin

[tsurugikekkaishi]

try find another method pls... your method is slow, sluggish and messy.