How To Make a Pizza [Video]

hey kids nice to see you again

so today i’m going to show you how to

make homemade pizza

uh so i’m just going to kind of walk you

through the steps of how i do it

but before we do that i have a dad joke

for you so

what did the pizza maker say uh when he

saw

the eel that’s amore

ah so anyway let’s get started

okay so here’s how i do it i you know i

use i’ve made

crust uh from scratch in the past but

i actually buy my crust from trader

joe’s now they just make it so easy

you know you can find other types of

crusts at the store too

that are in come in a box and then you

just roll them out i found that those

aren’t as tasty i really like what

trader joe’s has done they make the

you know the price is pretty reasonable

not getting compensated from them

for this but you know it’s they’ve made

it pretty convenient so it’s kind of

hard to

make your own dough because the price is

right and

it always comes out really good so what

they say to do

is you open this and then you take the

dough out

and just let it sit for 30 minutes okay

so that’s what we’re going to do first

we’re just going to take it out let it

set for 30 minutes

i’ve also in a pinch if i didn’t have

time just went ahead and start working

it

um and it still came out fine but i’m

just going to go and

ahead and follow the instructions this

time so

all right so i’ll come back in about 30

minutes

okay so while i was waiting for this to

rest

for 30 minutes uh it’s been a little

it’s pretty close to 30 minutes now i

went ahead and prepared the rest of my

ingredients

um so i cut up onions because i like

onions on my pizza

uh i cut up my olives and you know it’s

pretty

straightforward you can buy canned

olives that are already sliced

or you can just uh buy the whole ones

and slice them up yourself i have whole

ones on hand so that’s what i ended up

using

i’m gonna put pepperoni i like pepperoni

and black olive is kind of my go-to

you know another real popular one uh

here

in our house is uh canadian bacon and

pineapple so ham and pineapple

so i’ll probably make another pizza

after this but i’m just going to walk

you through the steps of how to make

this because it’s basically the same for

any pizza um so the first thing that we

need to do now

is we’re going to roll this out and you

want to get it pretty thin i’m going to

put it on

this cast iron pan

because i also have a traeger and i can

actually cook this

you can use a traeger as a pizza oven um

so i have that outside and we we cook

our pizza on this

but i’m gonna go ahead and cook this in

our oven as well um just because

you may not have a traeger you probably

have an oven though right so

so anyway i’m just going to go ahead and

and work this out and

it’ll take me a little while but you

basically just kind of

and you’ve seen those people you know at

the pizza place where they’re kind of

playing with the the dough like this

right there’s a reason why it kind of

stretches it out

works really well for that because

you’ll find as you’re trying to

trying to get it to roll out it wants to

shrink back on you

so you have to work it you want to try

to get it into a circle as best as you

can right

so we’re going to do that probably fight

with it for about

about five or ten minutes to get it

where you want it

okay so you can pick it up and stretch

it out

right get pretty fancy you’re probably

more fancy than i am about it but

anyway yeah there’s different ways you

can do it i am seeing so like i told you

before

i’ve taken this straight out of the

package and just gone ahead and worked

it

uh but boy actually letting it sit for a

little while it’s making it a lot easier

to work it

so all you professionals out there

probably already knew that

but for us beginners

that’s uh i’m learning something new

every day right so

anyway let me get this where i want it

and then and then i’ll come back to you

okay so another thing i forgot to

mention is you can go ahead and turn

your oven on um so it can be warming up

while you’re doing this because this

really won’t take all that long it’ll

probably take you

i don’t know 10 minutes to get it all

kind of where you want it won’t take

time at all to to get the toppings on

there i have this just about where i

want it

okay i rolled it out it’s pretty thin

but i like it that way

and you can kind of tell by putting your

pan on top of it looks like it’s about

right

okay and in the same way when i when i

made my

uh pumpkin pie crust this is a nice

little trick right you just

to get to transfer it you just roll it

on

up okay and then we can put that over

here

and then just roll it back down okay

just an easy way to transfer it and then

you kind of get it where you want it and

then you can always

again i’m not too concerned about how

pretty the crust looks i think that adds

to the character

uh it shows that it’s homemade and i

think that that’s kind of

kind of cool right it showed that you

you actually made it yourself so i’m not

too particular about how great the the

ends look

so next we’re going to go ahead and add

the sauce okay

and this is just canned sauce you know

you might get a little more fancy than

me

and try some try to make your own sauce

you know more power to you

i think it’s just gonna this makes it

really easy and i think

you know sauces have come a long way

they’ve got so many different

uh flavors now you know that you can

with mushrooms and all kinds of

different things so you can

you can uh kind of choose whatever you

want

so all right so here’s another thing

that i like to add

is sun-dried tomatoes you know i

it’s kind of a little bit interesting

because when i was a kid

i hated tomatoes uh we actually used to

actually

feed them to the dog underneath our

table uh

yeah because we just didn’t like them

but we were forced to force to eat them

but as i’ve gotten older i kind of you

know i think for like a blt

i like them for that and i like them on

a hamburger uh

but i eating them plain that’s not

really for me

but so it’s interesting that i’m

actually putting sun-dried tomatoes

actually adding that to my pizza now as

i’ve gotten older

but i like these they got a nice little

flavor to them and they’re kind of

uh chewy a little bit i don’t know how

else to put how else to say it but

but i kind of like them so i’m just

gonna put those around

you can leave those off if if you want

just something that i’ve kind of started

to add now that i’m

a little bit older next thing i do you

want to put a thin layer of cheese okay

so just a thin layer of cheese first

and i do like cheese so i don’t really

skimp on my cheese

okay so that looks that looks about

right

okay and then now i’m adding my

pepperoni

and i basically just kind of cover it

with pepperoni

rather than just kind of throwing it

sporadically i actually kind of

you know i’m a little bit methodical

about putting my

pepperoni on because i want everybody to

be able to get a piece of pepperoni

right when they get their pizza when you

cut it up

okay and it doesn’t take that long to

to do it

and this is pretty fun you know if you

do this as a family

where you everybody kind of has their

own little part and you can include

little kids too right

kind of kind of a fun bonding moment to

get

get to hang out together and it doesn’t

you know it’s not all that difficult as

you can see

to do this okay

all right we’re real close there we go

and then i like olives too so we’ll go

ahead and put olives on

you don’t want to pile it too high

because then it doesn’t cook on the

inside

too um so another thing that i do the

recipe

on that pack of dough actually calls for

4.75

i would tone it down from that i’ll so

i’ll be doing it about 450 or 425

and just cook it a little bit longer so

that way everything gets cooked because

i tend to

put a little you know quite a few extra

toppings on

okay so that’s that and then i like

onions too

um so i basically just took an onion and

i cut it

in fourths okay i cut slices and then i

cut that in fours because i think that’s

a nice

size onion if you go too fine then you

know i don’t know i kind of like a

little bit of

be able to kind of taste it right so

okay so that looks pretty good

and then now i just put my my final

topping of cheese on it

okay

all right so it’s ready for

for the oven

okay so the oven’s at 425. it’s

been preheating so here we go you want

to put it on the

this rack here you don’t want to go too

low because then it’ll just cook the

bottom

you don’t want to go too high because

it’ll just cook the top this is about

good i think right here

so i’m gonna put it in

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set the timer for probably 15 minutes

and check it

all right so as you can see i cleaned up

my mess here

too uh you know so that’s always a good

idea when

the pizza is cooking or you’re done with

the last

pizza clean up you know while you’re

waiting for the pizza to cook because

then when you’re done then everything’s

clean and you can go ahead and eat you

don’t have to worry about a big mess to

clean up

at the end so uh yeah so i cooked that

at

4 25 for 18 minutes the recipe said 475

for 8 to 10 minutes so you just got to

kind of keep an eye on it i kept

checking on it

and then i ended up pulling it out about

18 so

um and i think it it’ll end up being

real good you want to let it sit for

about

uh five minutes or so before you start

cutting it because that kind of helps

everything kind of gel together

too and plus you don’t want to burn the

roof of your mouth right if you dig in a

little too early

then you have to live with your mouth

being raw for a couple days so

anyway i hope this was helpful for you

thanks for watching and god bless you