Ingredients for Dough
1 ½ cups warm water
¼ cup olive oil
2 tsp yeast
2 tsp sugar
4 cups high gluten flour
1 tsp salt
(I use regular silverware to measure, a regular spoon for teaspoon and the larger soup spoon for tbsp.  Measure level, not heaping.)

This recipe makes two 12” pizzas, eight slices each.  The cheapest store-brand pizza sauce is perfect, or use other sauce to make barbecue, Buffalo or Thai flavor.  Simple pepperoni’s my favorite.  Use half a jar of pizza sauce.  Refrigerate the rest or freeze it in a Ziploc if it came from a can.

Add ingredients to a bread maker in the order listed above.  My bread maker has a 50-minute pizza dough cycle.  Don't let the dough rise longer than that.

Cut the dough in half, and shake a little flour inside two gallon Ziplocs to store the two lumps.  Use enough flour so dough doesn’t stick.  Shape the lumps round and freeze 'em.  Refrigerate one for a pizza today.  While the machine's out, continue to make two or three batches.  It takes only a few minutes to load and bag.  Do laundry or practice piano while the machine's kneading.

It's easiest to work with chilled dough.  Keep it lightly floured as you form it to pizza shape.  Once the pizza's assembled, bake it at 550° for eight minutes and until the cheese and crust begin to burn slightly.

Secrets:
Use high gluten flour.  It's what makes the dough elastic and blistery in New York style.  Find this special flour at a wholesale club.  It only comes in a 50 lb bag, and it's cheap.  Divide it in several large plastic containers.  You’ll use most of it and end up sharing some.

Bake at 550°, nothing less.  That’s as hot as your oven will get.  LEAN AWAY WHEN YOU OPEN THE DOOR.  A baking pizza makes EXTREMELY hot hair-curling steam that will rush out to give your face sunburn.

Bake on a steel mesh pizza grate.  I got mine from a local pizza shop with a $5 tip.  Once baked, slide the pizza onto a regular pan for cutting.

 

Sit a frozen dough-ball out in the morning for lunch or put one in the fridge to thaw for supper.  After a few tries, you'll assemble and bake fresh pizza in 15 minutes!