Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
A Deep Dive Into Pizza, featuring Dan Richer
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Today is all about one of our favorite foods: pizza! Best-selling cookbook author and one of America’s foremost pizza experts Dan Richer stops by the show to share his tips on baking your best pizza at home. Learn about his ideal home oven set up and his tips for nailing your bake. Then listen to David and Jessica answer your biggest pizza questions, from the best way to get a crispy crust to Jessica’s preferred method for reheating pizza. (Spoiler alert: It leaves David shocked.) Finally, they finish up with dueling Jess-opinions about pizza sauces and the recipes they’re baking this week. Recipes and other links from this episode: Find Dan’s book here: The Joy of Pizza Follow Dan on Instagram and visit his James Beard-nominated restaurant Razza in New Jersey Visit our Pizza Perfection shop page for our favorite tools and ingredients Our favorite baking steel: Brod & Taylor Bread Steel King Arthur’s 2020 Recipe of the Year: Crispy Cheesy Pan Pizza What David’s baking this week: Giant Hostess Cupcake Cake recipe What Jessica’s baking this week: Peanut Butter Brownies recipe Record your question for our Ask the Bakers segment here!
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Every existential thought you have, you get a punch card. Oh my God.
You would have been living at the hut.
Six inch pizzas, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. From King Arthur Baking Company, this is Things Bakers Know. I'm David Tamarkin, King Arthur's Editorial Director.
And I'm Jessica Badalana, Staff Editor at King Arthur Baking. Today we are talking about a topic that is very near and dear to our hearts, pizza. Pizza. You know, you and I have been talking a lot about pizza in recent weeks.
I feel like you and I have been talking about pizza nonstop for the last year. Because we have, actually.
And you know, all of this conversation about pizza is in service of a project that we've been working on, which is a new pizza cookbook, which will be coming out spring of 2026. But all this conversation about pizza has definitely sent me down a sort of nostalgic road. And, you know, one of the first pizzas that I really remember eating was cheese pizza from Pizza Hut.
Mm-hmm.
And I grew up in rural Vermont and going to Pizza Hut, it required a trip across state lines because the only Pizza Hut was across the river in New Hampshire. And it was a big deal. Like it felt sort of fancy there. You know, they had the faux Tiffany lanterns, the dark red leather banquets, and those giant 20 ounce red plastic tumblers. I mean, we didn't dress up for it, but we could have.
Like it was that significant. Totally. They were sort of dark and like very moody. Dark, moody.
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