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Pizza Americana
Taras Hrytsenko
Head pizzaiolo, Chorne More Pizza, Odesa, UA
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Pizza Americana

1 h 30 min total35 min hands-onServes 3Medium

$6.99$14.99 in 42 cooks
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458
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92%
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Roast chicken, salted cucumber, crisp fries and crispy onion under cheese sauce on a tomato base. A diner on a crust.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Baking steel or stone, Oven at its hottest setting, Pizza peel, Dough scraper
Allergens
Milk
Method
16 steps · 13 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 16 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

48-hour sourdough base

Film

Wheat flour, water, oil and a live starter, mixed wet and left in the fridge for two days.

A same-day dough browns without blistering. Two cold days give the crust its holes and its sour edge.

  • Wheat flour000 g
  • Sourdough starter000 g
Steps
5
Time
2 days
Hands-on
20 min

Makes 3 bases, 30 cm · keeps 3 days refrigerated

2 to 3 days ahead

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Base sauce

The sauce spread thin on the base before anything else goes on.

Too much sauce steams the dough from above and the middle never crisps. It is spread, not poured.

  • Tomato sauce000 g
Steps
3
Time
15 min
Hands-on
10 min

Makes Enough for 3 pizzas · keeps 5 days refrigerated

Up to 5 days ahead

Weights and method unlock on purchase
WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Tomatoes000 g
  • Salted cucumbers000 g
  • Mozzarella000 g
  • Roast chicken000 g
  • Cumin000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 16 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING5:00

Flour protein, and why the bag matters more than the brand

TECHNIQUE6:00

Stretching a cold base by hand without tearing

KIT5:00

Baking steel versus stone in a domestic oven

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 16 STEPS

13 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 13 of the 16 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: sliding the pizza off the peel in one movement — step 10 of 16.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

    Free preview
  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 10 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Taras Hrytsenko watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Preheating the steel a full hour

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Mozzarella torn, drained and dried first

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Topping right to the edge, sauce stopping short

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The hydration and the 48-hour cold rise, and how the oven gets hotter than its dial says.

Written by Taras Hrytsenko. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

Read it — $6.99

NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

458 verified cooks · 92% said it worked

Only people who bought the recipe and showed the dish they made can leave a note. Nobody is paid for it.

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