Neapolitan-style pizzas with their puffy, bubbling, leopard-print crusts and thin, floppy, sparsely adorned centres. It’s a strong formula, and many of those low-key local places have mutated into high-street chains.It seems we Britons can’t get enough.
Indeed, we love pizza so much that there’s a lively and growing subculture of enthusiasts making them for themselves. I should know: I’m one of them.
No doubt there are multiple reasons DIY pizza is booming. One cause (but also symptom) must be the emergence of very effective home pizza ovens, made by the likes of Ooni, Gozney and Sage, and pizza stones for Green Egg-style barbecues.
Another could be that during lockdown people realised making your own dough was not actually that tricky. Perhaps the explosion in decent restaurants has made punters more appreciative of good pizza, and less willing to accept the oven-ready options in the chiller section or lukewarm chewy offerings that arrive via mopeds.
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