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Style guide

Every pizza we know.

Eight styles, eight traditions. Each page has the history, the ratios, and a one-click deep-link into the dough calculator preconfigured for that style.

Neapolitan
Italy · 1889
Neapolitan

Wood-fired in 60–90 seconds. Soft, leopard-spotted, hand-stretched, eaten with a fork in the middle.

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New York
USA · 1905
New York

The foldable corner-slice. High-gluten bread flour, slow cold ferment, charred underside, oil-glossed cornicione.

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Detroit
USA · 1946
Detroit

Square blue-steel pan. Cheese pushed to the edges fries against the pan into a crispy frico crown. Sauce ladled on top after the bake.

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Sicilian
Sicily / USA
Sicilian

Thick, airy rectangle baked in an oiled pan. Stateside cousins: Grandma slice and old-school Sicilian.

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Pizza Tonda
Rome · classic
Pizza Tonda

Rome's everyday round pizza — stretched superthin and baked crisp. A firm, low-hydration dough cut with semolina, no puffy rim, shatteringly crackly under light toppings.

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Focaccia
Liguria · ancient
Focaccia

Flat, dimpled, drenched in olive oil and finished with sea salt. A flatbread cousin to pizza, not pizza itself, but in the family.

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Roman Pan Pizza (pizza in teglia)
Rome · modern
Roman Pan Pizza (pizza in teglia)

Roman bakery tray pizza. Very high hydration, a long cold ferment, an open glassy crumb, sold by weight and cut into rectangles.

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Cast Iron Pan
American home kitchens · 2010s
Cast Iron Pan

The easiest great pizza a home oven can make. A wet, no-knead dough proofed in a heavily oiled skillet, baked hot, and finished on the stovetop until the bottom is fried crisp.

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