The Best Pizza You'll Ever Make | Epicurious 101

Professional chef Frank Proto is back for another edition of Epicurious 101, today demonstrating how to make the best homemade pizza you've ever had.

Director/Producer: Mel Ibarra
On Set Director: Jen Osaki
Director of Photography: Kevin Dynia
Editor: Manolo Moreno
Chef: Frank Proto

Director of Culinary Production: Kelly Janke
Culinary Researcher and Recipe Editor: Vivian Jao
Culinary Producer: Young Sun Huh
Culinary Associate Producer: Christina Aiello
Associate Producer: Tim Colao
Line Producer: Jennifer McGinity
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes

Camera Operator: Kyle LeClaire
Audio: Lily Van Leeuwen
Production Assistant: Sophie Pulver

Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araújo
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Graphics Supervisor: Ross Rackin
Graphics, Animation, VFX: Léa Kichler

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0:00 When the moon hits your eye…
0:20 Chapter 1 - Prepping The Dough
2:12 Chapter 2 - Making The Sauce
3:53 Chapter 3 - Assembling The Pizza
6:45 Chapter 4 - Baking The Pizza
7:55 Pizza, Frank Style


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[duckhead]

Frank makes his own wheat from scratch, grows his own tomatoes and basil, and grinds his own olives for olive oil... but he's so accepting and loving that he shows us how to make it with a store-bought dough. This man is a legend.

[ArielK]

It's kinda weird seeing Frank using pizza dough that was already made. Instead of of showing us how to make the pizza dough from scratch.

[teddywyman]

added our own flare here and there, but followed franks recipe with my gf and ended up with the dish i am probably most proud of ever making. crust, cheese, sauce, and toppings were all perfect. wish i could personally thank frank for being so effective and charismatic at instructing us amateurs how to make great food

[missfreakk]

Storebought???? What, we're not going to grow our own produce to make our own dough????
This feels so weird, Frank, tbh

[partyboyrob]

while I appreciate the effort, I find it a little odd that Frank didn't make his own dough. Hearing what he has to say about that is what I was most interested in.

[twig]

frank is such a fun chef!! keep featuring him lol everything he makes is mouth watering

[VerhoevenSimon]

It's always a treat to see another of your videos. After your food swap video a while back I was almost expecting you to make your own cheese!

[russellwilliams]

Chef please keep making videos!!! I love cooking it’s my favorite thing to do and I’ve been learning so much from your videos thank you 🙏.

[oOXenosOo]

Well, if i went into a pizza bakery to buy some dough because i am craving pizza, i would most likely order a pizza straight away 😅

[crbswiss]

I rub a little olive oil on the dough before putting on any sauce. It prevents the soggy dough even more.

[texasmamabear]

It’s also super quick to use Nick Stellino’s recipes for the dough and his no-cook sauce is as easy as yours.
I will be trying your sauce recipe soon! Thank You!😊

[ColombianLNP]

Definitely trying this ! Thanks chef . Cheers from your biggest fan in Colombia amigo!!!

[VarunGupta]

This is amazing!!! Frank did a switcharoo and most ingredients are actually store bought!

[SchwarbageTruck]

Fun Fact: I can say from experience that the chances of you buying pizza dough from a pizzeria is directly related to 1) how busy they are (aka don't ask around lunch or dinner) and 2) if it's one teenager at a register or if it's you talking to the owner that you're pretty buddy-buddy with directly.

Also don't afraid to be that weird and bring you own tupperware. They probably don't have anything to package it with besides either plastic wrap and/or a takeout container. They probably won't put it in there for you for a variety of reasons, but you sure can.

[belalabusultan]

Chef Frank using a stroe-bought ingredient is out of the ordinary, but then again, this is pizza 101, so it's for complete beginners, and Chef frank is a restaurent cheff, not a pizzeria chef or even a pastry chef, so he values the skills of other people from the culinary world.... like the pizzeria workers who made the dough.

[GeoForReal]

Why is everyone complaining about the dough, this is more convenient for us who don’t have pizza stones, paddles, and dough mixers, etc. i love the convenience of this recipe.

[neerasinha-frazer]

Frank has a pizza dough recipe on his YouTube channel. He has Penny from Epicurious walk him through it. There is an overnight process if you do it her way. They were probably trying to keep this simple for us.

[David_Crayford]

Love Frank. Love Pizza. Love Frank's Pizza. But I'm definitely making my own dough. 😋

[abpgrace]

More Chef Porto please, he's amazing!

[christinep]

We LOVE a Chef Frank video! Excellent tips in this one, as always. How about some Detroit-style pizza?🍕🍕