Making The Dough

• Put 240ml of water into a bowl
• Heat 120ml of the water into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. 
• Once done add this to the cold water, this will help to make sure it is the right temperature so that the yeast activates. 
• Add the salt and yeast to the warm water and give it a whisk until the salt has dissolved. 
• Place your flour into a bowl and then pour in the yeast mixture, with a wooden spoon stir this together until it starts to form the dough. 
• Once it starts to form the dough, begin mixing by hand until it has combined into a large dough ball.

Kneading & Proofing

• Flour your worktop and then knead this pizza dough with both hands, you want to knead it for 10 minutes. 
• Continue kneading this until it is both firm and stretchy
• Put the dough into a bowl and cover with cling film
• Keep the bowl in a warm place for 2 hours, the Pizza dough should double in size
• Once it has doubled in size, equally divide it into 4 equal pieces. Each one should weight around 240-250g
• Put each of these dough balls into separate bowls and again cover with cling film. 
• These need to be left for another 60 minutes to allow it to double in size again.

Stretching The Dough

• Ooni recommends with the pizza dough recipe to always make sure the dough starts off as a rounded ball. This will make it much easier to get the rounded shape that you are looking for. 
• Lightly flour your surface and place the dough ball down.
• Put some flour on your hands and then press the dough with your fingertips until it becomes a small flat disc
• You should then spread your fingers out from the centre and this will push the dough outwards. 
• Take care to pick up the dough and pinch it around the edges, it should pull downwards and stretch into a circle as you rotate it. 
• You should be able to see the light through it, once it has reached your desired size it is ready to put on your toppings.