New Yorkeasy

New York Pepperoni

The cup-and-char NY slice: 48-hour cold dough, mozz-provolone blend, natural-casing pepperoni that curls into spice-pooling cups. The most-ordered pizza in America.

chewythin crustcheese-forwardoily
Hydration63%Temp600°FTime7 minSurfaceSteel

Equipment

  • pizza steel
  • 16" wooden peel
  • metal turning peel

Dough ingredients

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IngredientBaker's %Grams
Bread flour100.0%727 g
Water63.0%458 g
Fine sea salt2.5%18 g
Instant dry yeast0.3%2 g
Sugar1.5%11 g
Olive oil2.0%15 g
Total (3 × 410 g)169.3%1230 g

Toppings (per pizza)

Steps

  1. Mix10 min

    Combine all dough ingredients; knead 8–10 minutes.

  2. Bulk ferment1 h

    Room temperature, 1 hour, covered.

  3. Cold ferment48 h

    Refrigerate 24–72 hours.

  4. Ball + final proof2 h

    Divide into 410 g balls; rest 2 hours covered.

  5. Stretch

    Hand-stretch to a 16-inch round.

  6. Top

    Sauce in a thin spiral. Mix mozzarella and provolone; cover to within 1 inch of the rim. Lay pepperoni rounds on top in concentric rings — they curl into cups in the bake.

  7. Bake7 min

    600 °F preheated steel, 6–9 minutes. Rotate halfway. Off-heat: a pinch of oregano.

Bake
600°F · 7 min · Pizza steel
Hydration
63%
Active
25 min
Total
48 h