Pizza Dough Workshop – Master Homemade Pizza Dough

Better Pizza Starts with Better Dough

Have you tried making pizza at home only to end up with dough that's too sticky, difficult to stretch, keeps springing back, or doesn't bake the way you expected?

This hands-on Pizza Dough Workshop in Albuquerque is designed to help you understand the most important part of great homemade pizza: the dough.

You'll learn how to make pizza dough from scratch and understand how flour, water, yeast, salt, fermentation, time, and temperature work together.

Instead of simply giving you another recipe to follow, we'll help you understand what your dough should look, feel, and behave like—so you can make better pizza at home with confidence.

What You'll Learn

• Make pizza dough from scratch
• Choose the right flour
• Understand hydration
• Mix and develop dough properly
• Control fermentation for better flavor and texture
• Divide and shape dough balls
• Stretch dough without tearing
• Understand why dough springs back
• Refrigerate and freeze pizza dough
• Troubleshoot sticky, tough, dense, or difficult dough

Meet Your Instructor

This workshop is taught by Chef Stephen Meyer, Sherwood Bread's pizza and pasta instructor. Stephen focuses on practical techniques that help home cooks understand the process not simply follow a recipe.

Learn by Working with the Dough

This isn't just a demonstration.

You'll mix, handle, shape, and stretch pizza dough yourself. You'll also see dough at different stages of fermentation so you can understand how time and temperature change the dough.

That's difficult to learn from a recipe or video and one of the biggest reasons to take an in-person pizza dough class.

What You'll Take Home

• Pizza dough you've made yourself
• Sherwood's pizza dough recipe
• Fermentation and storage guidelines
• Pizza dough troubleshooting guide
• Techniques you can use with your own oven or pizza oven at home

Is This Workshop Right for You?

This class is especially helpful if your pizza dough:

• Is too sticky or difficult to handle
• Tears when you stretch it
• Keeps shrinking or springing back
• Produces a dense or tough crust
• Gives you different results every time

It's also a great fit if you've recently bought a home pizza oven and want to improve your dough.

No advanced baking experience is required.

Pizza Dough Workshop vs. Pizza Making Class

This workshop focuses specifically on mastering pizza dough.

If you want to learn the complete pizza-making process including dough, sauce, toppings, stretching, baking, and finished pizza choose our Pizza Making Class – Learn to Make Great Pizza at Home.

If your biggest question is:

“How do I make better pizza dough?”

You're in the right class.

Workshop Details

Duration: Approximately 2 hours
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Experience Level: Beginner-friendly
Format: Hands-on workshop

All ingredients and equipment are provided.

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