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Cooking Multiple Pizzas Back to Back (2026): Why Pizza Four Is Always the Worst
Every pizza you launch strips heat out of the stone, and the fix is to wait for the deck to come back rather than to launch on schedule. Ooni publishes the rule in its own Koda 16 guide: preheat the stone to 715 to 850°F (380 to 450°C), and between pizzas "make sure the stone gets back up to 715°F-850°F (380°C-450°C) before launching". That one instruction is the entire skill of cooking for a group, and almost nobody follows it. Here is the mechanism, the fuel by fuel differences, and a service rhythm that keeps pizza six as good as pizza one.
Read the guide →~11 min read
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How to Turn a Pizza (2026): How Often, With What, and Why
Ooni's own Koda 16 guide gives you the number: "use your peel to take the pizza out and turn it every 20-30 seconds." The reason is that a high heat pizza oven is deliberately asymmetric, with one burner or one fire on one side, so the edge nearest the flame chars while the edge nearest the mouth stays pale. Turning is not a flourish, it is how you make an uneven oven cook evenly. Here is how often to turn, which tool to use, and the two motions that do it without dragging the toppings off.
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Cold Ferment vs Same Day Pizza Dough (2026): What the Rules Actually Say
Neither governing authority for Neapolitan pizza endorses the long cold ferment the internet treats as gospel. Commission Regulation (EU) No 97/2010 specifies a two hour first rise plus a four to six hour second rise, six to eight hours in total at a specified 25°C, which is a same day dough. AVPN's own published recipe says minimum 8 and maximum 24 hours. Neither document describes 48 or 72 hours in a refrigerator. That does not make cold fermentation wrong, but it does mean it is practitioner consensus rather than specification, and this page is honest about which is which.
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Pizza Flour Protein Content: The Published Numbers, and the Two We Could Not Get
King Arthur publishes a protein ladder running from 8 percent for pastry flour to 14.2 percent for high-gluten, and Commission Regulation (EU) No 97/2010 specifies Pizza Napoletana flour at 11 to 12.5 g percent protein. But the Italian system specifies strength, not just protein, which is why an American protein number alone cannot tell you what a flour will do. Below: both specifications in full, Caputo's own figures, and two numbers we went looking for and could not find.
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Pizza Dough Salt and Yeast Ratios: Both Published Figures, and the Thirtyfold Gap
Commission Regulation (EU) No 97/2010 specifies 50 to 55 g of sea salt and a flat 3 g of brewer's yeast per litre of water. The AVPN's own website recipe specifies 40 to 60 g of salt and 0.1 to 3 g of fresh yeast, which is a thirtyfold range for the yeast inside one document family. Below: both figures converted to baker's percentages with the division shown, what salt is actually doing, and why the yeast range is that wide.
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How Much Dough Per Pizza: The Weight Table, With the Arithmetic Shown
Roughly 1.2 to 1.7 g of dough per square inch of finished pizza, which puts a 12 inch pizza at about 137 to 190 g. That band is our own arithmetic, derived from Commission Regulation (EU) No 97/2010, which specifies dough balls of 180 to 250 g for a pizza of no more than 35 cm. Below: the full table by size with the area column visible so you can check the working, plus the disagreement between the EU regulation and the AVPN's own recipe.
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Pizza Dough Hydration Explained: The Sourced Numbers, and What Each Band Does
Neapolitan dough runs 55.6 to 62.5 percent hydration, a figure derived from the AVPN's specified ratio of 1 litre of water to 1,600 to 1,800 g of flour, while Commission Regulation (EU) No 97/2010 fixes a single 55.6 percent by specifying 1 litre of water to 1.8 kg of flour. Hydration is nothing more mysterious than water weight divided by flour weight. Below: the division itself, a sourced hydration table by style, and the part that actually helps, which is what each band does to your bake.
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Why Does My Pizza Dough Spring Back? (2026)
Dough that shrinks back is elastic because the gluten is still tight, and the cure is a rest, not more force. Gluten strands held under tension pull themselves back toward their relaxed length the moment you let go, and the only thing that lets them settle at the new length is time. That balance between stretchiness and snap is measurable, which is why Commission Regulation (EU) No 97/2010 specifies a P/L ratio of 0.50 to 0.70 for Pizza Napoletana flour and Mulino Caputo publishes P/L 0.50/0.60 for its Pizzeria flour. Springback is partly a flour property, not only a technique problem.
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