Stop Putting Too Many Ingredients on Pizza
The Topping Law of Pizza: a pizza shall have no more than 3 toppings to achieve maximum goodness.
I know, I know, everything in that toppings list looks delicious and you haven’t eaten all day and you’re starving, but please — I beg you — stop overloading your pizza.
It might sound good to have a pepperoni-sausage-bacon-mushroom-olive-peppers-onions-tomatoes-extra-cheese pizza. But when you get that soggy mess, you’ll regret it. All those toppings you had to have will slide right off the wet dough in the middle and you’ll find yourself attempting to eat a slurry of toppings with a fork.
Dough has fundamental limits. To cook evenly through the center without burning, you gotta give it a fighting chance.
Sticking to 3 toppings gives the pizza plenty of flavor without preventing the dough from cooking in the center. This gives you a delicious pizza that doesn’t have a soggy, sloppy center.