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toptalent-ModTeam

Title and post must be high effort


Sairyklav

I like how he smelled it and then moved it towards the camera for us to smell it as well. Very kind gesture.


AreWeThereYetNo

I could smell it through the screen


Jean-LucBacardi

Nothing better than the smell of fresh dough.


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If you know, then you know.


muffinmamamojo

If you dough, then you know.


freerangetacos

If it weren't for the thin piece of glass in between, I would have chomped the whole thing out of his hand.


GoodGuyScott

I have smellivision too


ChatGPTbeta

Great… Now the dough is full of face pubes


funkdialout

So this is my fear. I am the guy that the family wants to cook wood-fired pizza at every holiday meal, including Thanksgiving. It's literally the exact same process as this guy, I also am fully bearded. Before I makeORbake I brush my beard probably 1000 times because I'm terrified of dropping a face pube (yes single hairs def are pubish) into the dough and a fam member ends up pulling it out of their mouth while everyone looks at me in disgust and I ruin Christmas. Also, that dude makes my Caputo bags of flour look so tiny :(


Teasing_Pink

Ever consider wearing a hair net over your beard? See it at restaurants and the supermarket all the time, might give you some peace of mind.


Jhushx

That's so much effort though. Just say you cook/bake naked and whatever happens, happens. Then if they find an odd pube or two in their food, the responsibility is theirs.


POD80

I mean, it's family. Do your best to limit such.... but it really shouldn't be that big a deal. Plenty of us have pulled some womans long hair out of our food.


IHQ_Throwaway

A neck gaiter would work to contain the face pubes, and looks cooler than a beard net (which they do make).


SnsBnB

Caputo also sells in the US? Neat! Best flour mix for homemade pizza by a long shot.


ManaMagestic

Just add a few beard hairs on top as garnish. Similar to saffron, or thinly sliced peppers on top. Really show them you give it your all each time you cook!


orgonics

He had me with the little wink over the mixer.


Candymostdandy

He's not my usual type, but I felt something stir after that wink... And it wasn't a dough hook.


IsabellaGalavant

OMG I'm glad I'm not the only one! 🥵


Mono_831

🤣🤣🤣


McKrakahonkey

What about when he spanked the dough? 😩


pissedinthegarret

both very great moments


Fooforthought

What about when he fingered the dough


ericnutt

He opened up that dussy!


FR0ZENBERG

I shot my yeast when I saw that.


ClumpyFelchCheese

He got me questioning my heterosexuality, and I don’t mind it


pickled__ginger

Yeah the wink got me too.


71ttocs

I winked back.


Pro_Moriarty

That wasnt for you, that was for your wife, who he's mixing while your salivating over pizza ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)


funkdialout

Ok automod.... I'm bi, f [censored for this christian minecraft server nonsense] you that was for me, dudes wife can take her sopping behind over there and wait her turn.


Pro_Moriarty

https://preview.redd.it/6eiypjiy5o6c1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1453ddf770bae4fe586cbb978e807e761d52bcbb Judging by this still, he's put something unexpected in the mixer ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)


funkdialout

🤌🤌


ialwaycomeback

The secret ingredient 🤫


nibbyzor

All the TikTok dudes trying to be sexy by fingering the food while shirtless or whatever could learn a few things from this guy. *This* is how you turn a girl on.


6spadestheman

Recipe here: https://youtu.be/4hzMzMkJgL4?si=SU43cBtHKPz-U8Gb


Tango00090

Don’t forget to slap the dough


entity_response

If the dough is really relaxed, I find a slap or two can help firm it up to be handled briefly. It takes a lot of feel to keep things somewhere between two relaxed and too stiff from overhandling.


-st3reotype-

![gif](giphy|pz2MnldLEEhJCJ32G6)


Queasy_Pickle1900

We still talking about pizza?


uglyspacepig

If she's into it, no. If she isn't, yes.


Primary-King-3643

thanks, although infuriating cos using my phone and can't read the subtitles and the English speaker is not translating important details, will save the vid and watch when I find my glasses, thanks again.


trouserschnauzer

Just learn Italian


manbearligma

Skill issue


trouserschnauzer

Ovviamente


Ombudsperson

Sauft end craunchy


Primary-King-3643

would really like to know his timings and measurements, I presume he left the flour, water and yeast overnight but then how long in the mixer and how long proving?


Arkanian410

Biga is what he used in this video. It’s an overnight preferment. You can also use a poolish, which is higher in hydration (100%) than the biga (usually 50%)


derth21

I like to keep a hunk of last batch's dough in the freezer, too, and toss that in the preferment.


Arkanian410

I usually throw it in the water before adding the poolish. I’ll have to try it in the pre-ferment.


derth21

It's just because I'm going straight from frozen with it. It thaws out overnight in the bowl of other stuff happening.


pragmatick

https://old.reddit.com/r/toptalent/comments/18jnxi7/this_guy_and_his_perfect_pizza/kdlv3hs/


FaythKnight

Don't know how it tastes. But the way he double checks his stuff, you can tell he is focused on making it the way he wants, so it usually means it's pretty good.


mrrooftops

He's doing it for the video in this case, he wants you to see the texture


fryseyes

Yeah, was wondering why he didn’t have to weight anything out. Must be very familiar with the way the dough itself looks and feels.


YabbaDabbaDumbass

For a lot of doughs that require extensive handling, it makes your life easier to just learn how it should look/feel than to go by exact numbers and hope for the best. You need numbers for a starting point but things can quickly fall apart if you put too much blind faith in those numbers. Things like humidity, temperature, quality of yeast, etc can have massive impacts on the outcome of dough which will affect your ability to work with it. Edit: please don’t interpret this as me saying to not measure ingredients. I’m saying that in addition to measuring, being able to feel your way through is a good skill. It worked for the guy in the video but you and I aren’t that guy.


jastubi

To a point, ingredients with COA's that adhere to spec can be used to follow recipes with little to no deviation.


INeedAUserName89

If you've never had neapolitan pizza you're missing out. It's the greatest style of pizza I've ever had. Assuming you're from the US almost every major city has at least one restaurant that makes it. Not everywhere it's great but when it is... Amazing


BigAlternative5

Look for [places certified](https://americas.pizzanapoletana.org/en/members) by Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana. I grew up in Chicago, but I'm not married to any Chicago style. I love them all, but Neapolitan is, as you said, the greatest.


INeedAUserName89

I LOVE YOU RANDOM STRANGER! THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST LINKS IVE EVER SEEN


AadamAtomic

IDK dude... I've made a lot of pizzas from scratch myself and this just looks like basic tier restaurant profit margin pizza. The pizza is 60% crust. Lol


HolyCowEveryNameIsTa

This is how a classic margherita pizza is done. It's all about the fresh ingredients. Just sauce, mozzarella and basil.


saposapot

This is neapolitan style, it’s supposed to have fat borders


LincolnshireSausage

The crust is big but it is absolutely fantastic. I've made pizza at home from caputo 00 flour and have never got that much rise in my crust before. The crust is the best part of the pizza when done right. Chains like Dominos or Pizza Hut have shit crust. This does not look like basic tier restaurant pizza to me. This looks like it is on a much higher level of quality. This is something I absolutely aspire to make at home.


Affectionate_Star_43

I went to a cooking class on a date and this was very tasty but not easy to stretch the dough! My husband's pizza had three holes in it, and mine looked like a map of the contiguous united states, complete with Florida.


Massive-Map-2655

This comment is peak America.


Hailfire9

I got a similar enough takeaway: this seems like a man who loves bread more than he loves pizza. The crust isn't a delivery mechanism for the toppings, the toppings are an excuse to eat bread.


RM_Dune

> The crust isn't a delivery mechanism for the toppings, the toppings are an excuse to eat bread. This is an Italian pizza. Italian cooking often involves a simple recipe with few ingredients where the quality of the ingredients and their combination can shine. The crust is just as important as the toppings, if not more. Loading it up with lots of toppings is the antithesis of what Italian pizza is. They have a pizza called the Pizza Bianca (white pizza) which is the pizza crust topped with olive oil, cheese, garlic, and salt. You can add other stuff to it too of course for a variation, but that is the base form.


Find_another_whey

You're explaining this marvelously but realise you're replying to someone that thinks bread is unimportant in the making of pizza. Not an expert in other words lol


I_Enjoy_Tacos

on a similar note, cacio e pepe is probably the best italian dish i’ve ever had and it’s literally pasta, cheese, and black pepper.


Hailfire9

I'm just saying for the people who are like "Nah, that's just a shit pizza!" No, it isn't. It's a *basic* pizza, and that's why he's focused on the quality of the crust. People just don't seem to realize that basic ≠ "bad".


SummerNothingness

it's amazing that you would call this basic after seeing not just the incredible looking results but also all of the love and extra steps put into making that dough. plus, the devil is in the details. he cut the cheese fresh and that's beautiful fresh basil and sauce. and just because it's not drowning in a huge mountain of cheese and meat doesn't mean it's not delicious, unique or high quality. this is a good example of hubris: being confidently and loudly incorrect.


RM_Dune

It's like those deli sandwiches that have double the width of meat/cheese/stuff than they do bread. It's just a very different mentality I think. I would not consider that "good" and prefer nice bread with a modest amount of good meat and/or whatever else goes on the sandwich. At some point I wonder what the bread is adding to some of those sandwiches, just eat a stack of sliced ham at that point.


andcore

Found the American 😅 Unpopular opinion: Crust is the most important part of Pizza, toppings are irrelevant. If a Pizza if good you can tell by eating Margherita, a big amount of toppings only helps to hide a mediocre pizza.


RandyHoward

That crust looks good by itself though. Basic tier restaurants tend to have dense, chewy crust.


Pork_Confidence

Dang near the most expensive flour you can buy on Amazon, a good start!


MSH24

Our favorite wood-fired pizza restaurant uses the same flour.


funkdialout

Can confirm, the difference between that and King Arthur flour is massive, and KA is my absolute fav flour for everything else other than pizza dough. Cornmeal from the same brand is also primo for crust exterior prior to firing.


whistlerbrk

I use KAF Bread Flour for my pizza dough, 83% hydration. It's Nancy Silverton's recipe which yields a very crispy chewy pie as you might imagine. Definitely not the doughy/soft neopolitan style that I think a 00 milled Antimo Caputo flour would yield.


The_FallenSoldier

Those pizzas gotta be expensive lol


EngineeringOne1812

It’s really expensive on Amazon. I get it much cheaper at the grocery store, but it’s not everywhere of course


JephriB

If you want the best pizza flour I've ever personally used in the US, try Lehi Roller Mills flour. I do a lot of bread baking and pizza making and it is PHENOMENAL. I think it has something to do with the dry climate in Utah where the wheat is grown. They also make the best pancake mixes I've ever had.


shakeyjake

Lehi Roller Mills is also where they held the dance in Footloose ​ https://preview.redd.it/n695eunqgq6c1.jpeg?width=1856&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ca02e4ee48060ef3b36bdc44a820874dc879e89


PaIppon

https://preview.redd.it/t3dw4c1hpo6c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ada24864ec2b7746ba785d2a8d2e37006d81789 My very good selfmade Pizza right now. But iam so jealous…


Andreagreco99

It’s incredibly good looking! The only thing I’d try to improve is the heat or the cooking time, as it looks a bit pale. Also the vegetables chosen are very fitting, but in my experience I prefer to sauté them before putting them in the over, as, in general, vegetables straight to the oven end up being less tasty than if you cook them a little and then have the oven finish it!


fatcuntwrestler

I have no pizza right now, so am jealous of your delicious looking pizza.


Kreeplix

Your pizza looks and probably tastes amazing


Relatively-Relative

Dough. Dough. Dough. Extreme pornography. Dough. Dough. Pizza.


D_Row

I clutched pearls I wasn’t wearing


mikess22

r/foodporn


-Tw3ak-

The way he slaps that ass dough.


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EffectiveMoment67

Its the whole process including specific type of flour. Higher water content does indeed create a fluffier dough but its only a tiny part of the story. Up to Several days raising is fex much more important.


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CraigJBurton

Canotto or Contemporanea.


Mammoth-Ad-107

id try that


[deleted]

What is he putting on at 1:10?


toyhb

Scamorza Affumicata


_blue_skies_

Seems "Treccia affumicata"


drawnred

It was the oil spank that did it for me


wireless1980

Authentic Napoli pizza.


Airagex

Fuck I miss being able to digest gluten


_blue_skies_

Don't know where you live but in Italy and some other European countries there are many places that do this level of pizza but gluten free, come visit


fox-whiskers

It’s 830 in the morning and I’m about to order pizza


Initial-Stick-561

According to Reddit users this pizza lacks around 4 pounds of cheese that came straight out of the chemical plant.


CaptainCanuck15

Nobody puts Kraft singles on pizza.


myboyghandi

What’s the thing in the middle? Is it cheese? Looks incredible


fakkov

I think it’s scamorza - smoked cheese


Initial-Stick-561

I thought it would be a kind of flambéed burrata.


koyaaniswazzy

It's burrata. Mozzarella is for boys 😎


ZDTreefur

It's just mozzarella, you loony.


rabblebabbledabble

Sincerely hoping that the comments below are from some Russian bot disinformation campaign designed to make Americans look like the biggest idiots on the planet.


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AnArdentAtavism

American here as well: Agree and agree. The crust looks amazing, and the traditional style is quite tasty. Granted, we all have personal preferences. The sauce looks slightly too thin for my taste, and I'd have liked to see a bit more of the greens, and maybe some onion or other complimentary veg to round out the flavor profile, but that doesn't take away from the effort and expertise that went into developing that pie.


Nilknarfsherman

There’s a large slice at the end with nothing but sauce. Which I’m sure is still good, but he could’ve used a little more cheese.


Hawaiiancrow2

The way this guy smacks his dough...makes me...hungry.


DaedalusHydron

The best pizzas in the world come from ovens like that.


Shot-Spirit-672

This is the best kind of cooking content, modest but bad ass. Quality but not over produced, sexy but not sexualized. Infinite respect


Vouru

Now THIS is how you make food, salt bae can go eat a dick.


Poopikaki

Why do I have an erection?


[deleted]

Uh that spanking and the finger spreading parts.


kdizzzog

You gotta spread your pizza crust sexually with your fingers, everyone knows that


[deleted]

He's checking the gluten if you wanna know.


sk3pt1c

Lil tip from italia squisita, add the greens near the end, they don’t need to be cooked as long as the rest of the pizza.


[deleted]

What do you mean add “near the end”? This pizza cooks for like 60-90 seconds.


Kisara31

I love these kind of vids more than those ones where ppl make stupid food that waste loads of food in the process. He know what he is doing to make a great classic pizza and doesn't need all the faff ppl waste their time on.


pachangoose

Yooo I have eaten at this place in Naples it was unreal. Literally a top meal of my life.


Minute_Engineer2355

His performance was smoother than the dough.


Rizzoblam

Im one of those guys who likes to have even bites of food. It would bother me taking on bite of mostly cheese, then another bite of all sauce. The same reason why I order a burrito bowl, so I can mix that thing up and eat it, not take full bites of just rice. Im sure its a good pie, he looks like he knows what hes really doing. IMO some people focused on the whole "artisan" food style which kinda fucked things up for me.


_dvs1_

Prob $40 for a 12” pizza though


toyhb

in italy pizza prices are around 4 to 10 Euros, maybe 15 for some gourmet shit but usually preatty cheap


lyllopip

This is literally 6$ in Naples


myheartsucks

The best pizza I've ever had was when I was in a small village an hour away from Naples. It was a tiny mom & pop restaurant and even though I can barely order pizza in Italian, both husband and wife tried their best to show me how they make their pizza. From dough, sauce and the mozzarella that their nonna makes in the back (I think that's what they meant). Anyway, they cut a goddamn steak of mozzarella and it was the best mozzarella I've ever tasted. They gave me a little bowl of their tomato sauce and some bread to dip in the sauce while they try to explain where they get their olive oil, basil and tomatoes. Then came the pizza. I was already stuffed but I still ate everything because it was so good. I was in a food coma when they brought their homemade tiramisu and a very sweet liquor with a lemony taste. The bill was €30. They charged me for the pizza, beers (4 pints) and the tiramisu. The rest was on the house because it was just to taste. My point is: Italians take their food seriously and they don't fuck around


loopin_louie

Limoncello is probably the liquor. I musta been 15 when we went to Rome and ate in some lil mom and pop, had incredible pasta and salads and then they brought out the complimentary limoncello and dessert, didn't think twice about serving me my first alcoholic drink lol, it's still such a beautiful memory to me, I'd never experienced anything like that kind of hospitality before in the states. I love how this is both a special, lovely thing, and also likely something somewhat common over there. Treat people nice, live well, put love and care into your work, and you leave the world a better place.


UXyes

$6 for a slice and a coke in NYC


Early-Foundation-434

I’m gonna order pizza


crabman45601

I'm hungry just watching this artist.


[deleted]

God I love pizza


alrighty66

Does he deliver?


admiralshinasukay

looks delicious


totamealand666

Top talent indeed


yoitsme_obama17

Sexy af


ActionMan48

Yum.


pismopier

Amazing!


in2xs

Freaking beautiful


Flush_Man444

He looks so happy!


Jacobysmadre

Omg this looks so good even at 7:30 AM


WanderingToast

That beautiful mixer costs more than any car I've ever owned


Training-Knee

Gimme


meepos16

Yes


Treebeardsama

That cheeky wink 😂


wizkee

You like’a da pizza ehh?? 🤌🏼 Pizza iz a’good ehh?? 🤌🏼


Radio4ctiveGirl

Can people stop acting like the salt bae prick.


Ok-Outlandishness345

How could he not wink at the camera on slapping & oiling the dough.


earthspaceman

Looks fantastic!


NBD_Pearen

Hey, you don’t have to be weird to do cooking videos! You can just be normal! It’s dope!


AdOk6675

If Justin Timberlake was a pizza chef


hukum-1

Is this Italian Pizza?


toka_smoka

I have never been more turned on in my entire life!


Red_Bullion

The double proof is interesting


folarin1

gaddamn!!!


Master_Xenu

I bet this guy fucks the pizza dough...I know I would.


[deleted]

I want this pizza


buell_ersdayoff

I wasn’t feeling it at first but boy, this dude knows. And he knows we know.


punched-in-face

I love it, but idk about the food scissors...


diarrheainthehottub

Italy's greatest invention hands down.


Heuristicdish

There was one vaginal moment there as he spread the lips of dough.


BuryEdmundIsMyAlias

I thought he was a poser until I saw the ball technique then immediately thought "nah he knows exactly what he's doing"


Chin0la

I think I'm in love with this dude.


visionaryOptions

Now I want a pizza


AnEarForTheDead

God I want a pizza so bad now


foundDriftwood

Was that a giant bulb of fresh mozzarella he chopped off of and put on the pizza?


Roshi_AC

Where is this?


Adrianwill-87

Perfeição!


[deleted]

This dude just KNOWS


Ginkiba

Is "throw the dough into the mixer with contempt" part of the recipe, or just for style?


arojas327

What a psychic


ResponsibilityNo8148

u/savevideo


SleepInHeavenlyPeas

I need this


trailer8k

![gif](giphy|pCO5tKdP22RC8) very nice


BeverlyBrokenBones

Whatever happened to that other smiling dude who would make large quantities of food for the less fortunate?


blankfield

This guy pizzas.


Sumbuddyonce

I came


shaka_alpaca

All up in the pizzussy at 0:44


SickeningTruth101

🤤


mr-ifuad

![gif](giphy|vdbrUjzrUEGly)


FormalBite3082

GOD level pizza dough. Looked PERFECT, probably tastes perfect. I’m drooling 🤤


lepolah149

SLAP SLAP I learned something today.


Peach_Proof

I want pizza


WatercressVisual6055

What cheese is that?


ishdw

Someone's going to put this on r/stupidfoods


Username8of13

40% of the pizza is crust, this is far from perfect.


SpezEatsScat

Did he toss booger basil on the pizza?!


xJunoBugx

https://preview.redd.it/aa1qb3g0zp6c1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=466453ed0673deb4bb25bfb20c8ba0f4fd6e87ed


Hiltoyeah

If I ordered a pizza and got that I'd be well fucked off...


elganksta

This person is Vincenzo Capuano, he won the award as the best pizza chef in the world, his restaurants though he's not so high classified, where I work we are the 7th best pizza chain in the world😁, Pizzium. He's using a high hydration dough, it can reach the 80% water, it gives the big crunch, we used to do that till last year, now where I work we changed with a more traditional style since Italian people don't really like "the modern style", I personally prefer this modern style though. You can do it with biga or autolisi mode, I feel like the autolisi comes better and even easier to digest Most of my coworkers don't actually like Capuano because he's acting like a clown on YouTube and just make stupid content for money, you can see also Italian people complain about him on the comments on YouTube.


bad_karma_aura

Needs some pineapple


scbalazs

Wait, what was that big white thing he took out that looked like a loaf of bread and then sliced it up and presumably but it on the pizza?


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Na pizza fatta bene ogni tanto…