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Flours
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By Kelli Bronski and Peter Bronski
Published 2021
Pizza dough is little more than flour, water, salt, and yeast. Yet from these humble ingredients, an incredible variety of amazing pizza crusts are born. And precisely because the ingredients are so simple, the details matter: quality, technique, and the flour itself.
Not all wheat flour is the same—you might choose a bread flour or a cake flour depending on what you’re baking, or perhaps an entirely different strain of wheat if you’re making pasta. Pizza flours differ, too. Legendary Italian flour mills such as Caputo and Pizzuti offer different pizza flours geared for Neapolitan versus New York versus other pizza styles. And many pizzaioli take great pride in precisely which flour they use for their pizzas.