Pizza

The pie

Wood-fired pizza is a ninety-second dance at nine hundred degrees. The crust puffs, the leopard spots appear, and if you blink it's over.

The build

flour      00 flour
hydration  65%
rise       24h cold, room-temp for the bake
fire       oak, 900°F, 90 seconds

What to look for

You want leoparding — those charred little spots where the dough kissed the stone. A pale pizza is an unfinished pizza.