The Perfect Sourdough Pizza (Bread Porn)
What it is
A short, nearly wordless demonstration of making sourdough pizza at home using a cast iron pan and the oven. It shows a Neapolitan-style result without a pizza steel or stone.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it as a practical, home-bakable sourdough pizza method that gets close to stone-oven quality.
- 4 people recommended it
- 3 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2019, last 2021
What HN commenters said
“This is the best video on making neapolitan style at home with an cast iron pan and oven”
Neapolitan pizza at home with cast iron and oven.
cmod, 2020-04 · Strong recommendation · in “How to make pizza like a Neapolitan master”
“without words, better than I can describe”
Wordless demonstration of high-heat pizza technique.
crispyambulance, 2019-01 · Recommendation · in “Pizza Dough”
“For a practical, home-bakable, sourdough recipe I can vouch for”
Practical home-bakable sourdough pizza recipe.
dredmorbius, 2020-04 · Recommendation · in “How to make pizza like a Neapolitan master”
“it gets decently close the the quality of a stone oven”
Cooking pizza in an iron skillet at home.
leoncvlt, 2021-02 · Recommendation · in “The Physics of baking good Pizza [pdf]”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: pizza, sourdough, cast iron, neapolitan, baking
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