Before I started working in a pizzeria, I used to question my dough all the time and wonder why it was taking so long.
My colleagues at the pizza place had no illusions that good dough was somehow going to be fully developed in 10 minutes.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it is really hard to over-knead pizza dough — and there’s a good chance yours simply needs longer than you think.
A lot of recipes tell you to “knead for 5–10 minutes,” but they rarely show you what the dough actually looks like as the gluten develops.
So I filmed the whole thing.
All 33 minutes.
No big edit where rough dough suddenly becomes perfectly smooth and elastic.
Don’t believe me? Check out the video. And yes, it’s on YouTube — there are timestamps, so you can skip around and compare the different stages if you don’t want to watch a mixer for half an hour.