Paul Hollywood's Tip For The Best Homemade Baked Pizza Dough

To improve your pizza game, TV host and celebrity chef Paul Hollywood has a two-fold tip for pizza dough preparation: roll it super thin and bake it super hot.

High heat is critical to pizza perfection, and while some pizzas are known for thickness, the style that strikes that perfect crispy-chewy balance needs to be very thin.

Hollywood suggests firing up the oven and leaving a plate (an oven-proof option or pizza stone) inside for at least an hour or hour and a half at the highest temperature possible.

Demonstrating his dough-rolling process in a YouTube video, Hollywood is especially generous with flour to prevent the dough from sticking to the surface.

He starts from the center of the dough, rolling outwards in all directions to achieve that signature circular shape and a consistently thin base for your sauce and toppings.

If you have a pizza oven, the pizza should only take about three minutes. You can still reach that peak texture in a standard oven, just add about four to five minutes.