A Month of Pizza Notes, Not Perfect Circles

Homemade pizza from a collection of kitchen attempts.

The pizzas do not all look alike. That is one of the useful things about keeping the footage.

Our progress short puts several homemade attempts into a quick sequence. There are differences you can see at once and others that would need a seat at the table to judge. Together, they make a better record than one carefully chosen finished-food photo.

Keep one win and one next step

Look through your own kitchen notes and choose one thing you want to repeat. It might be a size that suited dinner or a setup that made the work easier. Then choose one thing to change next time.

Keep both notes concrete. “Clear the tray space first” gives you something to do. “Make better pizza” is a much larger and less helpful instruction.

Let the pictures support the notes

A photo can remind you of the shape, the edge, or the arrangement of toppings. Your written notes can cover what it tasted like and which recipe you followed. Neither needs to do the other's job.

The video is a recap of our filmed attempts, not a claim that each later pizza was automatically better. The value is in having a record to compare and a reason to try again.

October ends with something made by hand, a few useful observations, and plenty of room for another batch. Perfect circles were never the only point.

Keep reading: a simple way to compare pizza batches.

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