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Pizza Without Fear: Master the Dough. Read the Oven. Make Better Pizza by Understanding Why.
Paperback
Series: Without Fear
Publisher: Logan Publishing
Published: Aug 26 2026
Pages: 580
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Stop following recipes. Start understanding pizza.
Pizza Without Fear is a practical guide to making better pizza by understanding what's actually happening in the dough, on the bench, and inside the oven.
Chef Freddy MacKenzie takes pizza apart as a working system: flour, hydration, fermentation, dough temperature, mixing, gluten development, shaping, topping load, cheese, sauce, baking surfaces, top heat, bottom heat, and oven behavior. Instead of giving you rules to memorize, he shows you what each variable changes, what failure looks like, and how to decide what to do next.
You'll learn how to judge dough by feel instead of relying only on the clock, open and stretch a dough ball without destroying the rim, launch cleanly from a peel, manage topping moisture and weight, balance top and bottom heat, and diagnose problems such as a pale bottom, wet center, stubborn dough, weak structure, poor browning, or a pizza that simply isn't baking the way you expected.
The book also moves through major American and international pizza traditions-including Neapolitan, New York, New Haven, Chicago tavern-style and deep dish, Detroit, Sicilian, Grandma, St. Louis, Roman, New England Greek, and many more-showing how different styles change the variables without changing the underlying logic.
Whether you're working with a standard home oven, steel or stone, pan, or high-temperature pizza oven, the goal is the same: learn to read the evidence in front of you and make better decisions.
Pizza Without Fear isn't about finding one perfect pizza recipe. It's about understanding pizza well enough to make the pizza you want, in the oven you actually have.
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