Master the Craft of Artisan Pizza

Learn professional pizzarista techniques for making authentic, artisan pizza, in your domestic or wood fired oven.

4.55 (289 reviews)
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Feb 2020
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What you will learn

Make seven different kinds of pizza dough, including Napoletana, sourdough, heritage and gluten free.

Manage rising, proving and baking schedules.

Shape the dough like a pro.

Make authentic sauces, show-stopping toppings and fabulous finishing touches.

Bake pizza to perfection in a domestic oven, or in a wood fired oven.

Description

Running a highly successful wood fired micro-pizzeria inspired the founders of The Artisan Bakery School, Penny and Dragan, to add two day-courses in pizza-making to their curriculum; one wood fired and one not.  

In this comprehensive online course, you get the benefit of BOTH those courses:  how to use your wood fired oven to best effect, and how to make your ordinary oven produce extraordinary pizza.  

Building up to this, you will learn how to:

  • read your dough, and master all its stages

  • make and shape a extensive range of different doughs 

  • concoct delectable sauces

  • design a balanced flavour profile for topping ingredients

  • create finishing touches that will really elevate your pizza


Contents and Overview

Our welcome lecture introduces you to our document, How to Use this Course.  In it, you will find suggestions for how to proceed, according to whether you're a complete beginner, an improver, a passionately adventurous cook, an aspiring professional or an entrepreneur considering a micropizzeria business.  You can follow the suggestions, or just work your way through every recipe as it comes up.

Following a run-down of the essential pizza-making equipment, we move on to Dough-ology, Saucery and Top-ology,  introducing a discussion about the basic ingredients, and the importance of sourcing local, organic produce wherever possible.  This is because authentic pizza, like all really good food, has a story to it.  It's  just wonderful to be able to tell your guests what's special about the tomatoes in the sauce, or the particular olives, or the artisan cheese that's on the pizza.  It adds depth to everyone's appreciation of the food.

Moving into our tried and tested Seven Steps Method, you'll have a range of different dough formulas to choose from, each with its own unique flavour and texture.  From pure Napoletana dough, through sourdough and heritage dough, right through to gluten free, you'll get to understand all the different characters and of course, how each dough has its affinities with different kinds of topping.   Simply pick yourself a formula and start at Step 1. 

Learning to read your dough is as important as being able to read the recipe for making it!  That means understanding the dough in all its moods and modes, as well as how to shape it into balls, then into pizza. You'll get plenty of practice at reading your dough, and lots of exercises in shaping it too.

In Step 3, you'll move on to making sauces, covering everything from the classic tomato sauces, through white bases to home-made pesto and even onion marmalade.   You'll also learn how to make infused garlic and chilli oils and other little finishing touches to add in Step 7, once your pizza is baked. 

You'll see how we run our Start and Finish Lines, to keep our toppings organised and our garnishes in order, and how important this is if you're making multiple pizzas!

Throughout the course, you'll find videos packed with tips and insights gleaned from years of professional pizza-making experience. 

The course finishes with 15 inspiring pizza recipes from The Artisan Bakery School,  each designed to showcase a balanced profile of salty, sweet, sour, bitter, smokey or umami flavours, and in a way that makes your dough a star of the show.

So - if you're hungry to learn, you're in the right place!


Here are a few of our favourite 5 star testimonials from our other courses:

I gave five stars because the genuine enthusiasm of Penny and Dragan is so infectious, and all the various aspects are explained and demonstrated in such an easy to follow manner. I felt drawn in and couldn't wait to get a starter going. I'm looking forward to the time when I have rocked & rolled & chafed and, hopefully, ended up with a lovely smooth ball of dough - like the one that Dragan cradled in his hands so affectionately. Looks a little like play dough for grown-ups. George.E. Morley

Penny and Dragan removed the mystique surrounding sourdough and made it very "do-able." Really love the FAB recipe! Bobby Ollar

…The bonus too is they show the stages of dough development clearly and this was something I struggled to understand before this course. They keep it simple as bread baking should be. I'm really looking forward to more courses. Julia Bilecki

Dragan and Penny! Thank you for putting together such an awesome course. Incredible support, you know what you are talking about. Very insightful course. I really learned a lot, all of the additional advice/tips very helpful and useful. All the best for you. Marcelo Ariatti

The videos are priceless!  Aden

Why not check out the promo video and the free lectures for yourself?

Content

Introduction

Hello and welcome!
Please Read! Health & Safety Disclaimer.
How to Use This Course
Pizza-making Equipment
What Makes Perfect Pizza?

Building Your Perfect Pizza

Doughology, Saucery & Top-ology!

The Dough Formulas

The Dough Formulas

Ready for Sourdough?

How to Make Your Sourdough Starter
Making Your Leaven

The Seven Steps to Perfect Pizza

The Seven Steps (Summary)
Notes on Basic Elements and Key Steps

Steps 1 & 2: Mixing, Rocking & Rolling, and Autolysing

Napoletana Dough
Dragan's Dough
Sourdough
Heritage Dough (White)
Heritage Dough (Brown)
Spelt Focaccia Dough
Gluten Free Dough

Step 3: Making Sauces

Step 3: Fresh Tomato Sauce
Tinned Tomato Sauce
Onion Marmalade Recipe

Step 4: Dividing and Pre-shaping

Step 4: Dividing and Pre-shaping

Step 5: Shaping

Step 5: Shaping the Pizza

Step 6: Toppings and Garnishes

Oils & Pesto
Start Line & Finish Line
Balsamic Glaze Recipe

Step 7: Baking and Serving

Step 7: Baking in Your Domestic Oven
Baking in Your Wood Fired Oven

Pizza Recipes

Dill-icious Salmon
Napoletana
Gamberetti
Rocket Pesto & Griddled Asparagus
Fresh Radicchio, Olive & Gorgonzola
Mushroom
Pepperoni
Spinach & Blue Cheese
Asparagus
Chargrilled Vegetable
Fresh Fig & Goat Cheese
Artichoke & Brie
Adriatic Anchovy
Know Your Dough
Know Your Dough Ingredients
Using Your Wood Fired Oven
Using Your Domestic Oven

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Reviews

Nitanshu
August 4, 2023
Okay, the course is impressive, learning from the most creative people with their knowledge and experience, got to learn so many new things, looking forward to learn more from you guys. Thank you.
Shalin
June 25, 2023
nothing new all is on youtube with other channels with more detail, i came here to learn more depth but this is all so basic
Jeff
November 13, 2022
Would have liked to see how feeding the sourdough starter each day. By watching the video I had a ton of questions like do you mix starter when you feed it.
Candice
August 31, 2021
Class is teaching the ins and outs of pizza making. I've done a lot of research on pizza making on my own but nothing has been as in depth and educative as this course.
Anat
May 7, 2021
So professional, so much information Has a very good introduction about dough that can proof useful for baking breads in general
Vandana
December 25, 2020
I loved every bit of this course!! Thanks to the great chefs, I am slowly going towards the perfection of making pizza!!
Barath
November 26, 2020
its good and giving all insights about the dish. Never know this will have so much of minute details in it.
K
November 4, 2020
Leider waren mir die meisten Inhalte bereits bekannt, daher hat es mich nicht wirklich weiter gebracht. Das Brüllen des Drachen fand ich etwas albern. Insgesamt aber ein liebevoll gestalteter Kurs, der Vielen sicher weiterhelfen und Freude bereiten wird.
Roger
January 14, 2019
Good pizza making techniques with proper explanation which are very helpful for beginners and active pizzaiolo. Video and text quality are quite clear, good standard. Wonderful artisan pizza recipes. Definitely a boost to anyone serious in learning artisan pizza making.
Eric
January 11, 2019
I worked in a pizza parlor for 6 years when I was younger. Went from table guy to sous chef. What I saw in this course is correct. Make your own sourdough, cook hot and fast. Thanks.
Darlene
October 23, 2018
I thought this pizza course was very comprehensive and liked that there were so many "secrets" that others fail to talk about. Super instructors and really delightful as well.
Filip
July 21, 2018
Very insightful course from real professionals. I really learned a lot about the various topics: from basics of pizza making to a bit more complex parts of the whole process. I find all of the additional advice/tips very helpful and useful. Kind regards from Croatia
Sina
March 17, 2018
My mother in law told me about this course few moths ago, so I am very grateful to her that I have discovered Dragan and Penny and their amazing The Artisan Bakery School. Instructions presented in 'Master the Craft of Artisan Pizza' are very well organized and can be useful for beginners and advanced practitioners alike. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in art of making pizzas.
I
March 17, 2018
This is hands down best and most comprehensive pizza making resource I ever came across. Forget Felicity Cloake from Guardian, she is great but Penny and Dragan actually show you how to get the perfect result (and you can rewind, rewind and rewind :)). Thank you!
Sara
January 10, 2018
A lively and engaging presentation showing how to make a wide range of artisan pizza. Very clear demonstrations and written explanations of the different dough making processes, as well as all the practical and creative steps needed to make perfect pizza, either in a domestic or wood-fired oven. Plenty of different recipes to try out. Fun quiz at the end helps check if you absorbed everything. Every type of pizza they brought out of the oven looked incredible!

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