For some, pizza is a religion. The perfect balance of a crispy and puffy crust with the sauce and toppings can be elusive.

There are two key types of yeast at the grocery store. Find out which is best for your baking. Yeast is responsible for helping dough to rise, while also imparting great flavor. Yeast is a living ...

Whether you're making a loaf of bread or DIY-ing your own crust for pizza night, you need yeast to do the heavy lifting. And when we say lifting, we're being literal. Baker's yeast, known ...

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What's the difference between regular yeast, quick-rising yeast and the new pizza dough yeast? When I make dough, I can't tell a difference between regular and quick-rising. Peter Reinhart, the bread ...

Think of this as a by-request column. A friend recently asked if I had an easy recipe for pizza dough, explaining that it had to be really easy because she was not good with yeast breads. A lot of ...

This article is part of the Basically Guide to Better Baking, a 10-week, 10-recipe series designed to help you become a cooler, smarter, more confident baker. Adding yeast to dough is a lot like ...

From-scratch pizza—that includes a homemade crust—almost always needs a little bit of patience to prepare because the pizza ...

The star ingredient responsible for an airy, bubbly pizza crust is yeast. As cells that eat sugar and convert into carbon dioxide, yeast is what makes dough rise – yet Italian scientists have ...

Whether you’ve been dreaming about making your own pretzel buns or are already a bread-baking pro, there’s one thing these delicious, carb-y recipes have in common: yeast. But take one glance at the ...