Dufresne applies tomato sauce to a pie. His sauce is made from crushed New Jersey tomatoes, with a little bit of xanthan gum added for viscosity.
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Dufresne has been fixated on better understanding pizza dough, and its influences from Naples, Sicily, and New York, in an effort to make the best New York-style pie that he can.
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Dufresne's team takes special care to "stretch" air into each round of dough to make for a better crust.
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Chefs Jimmy Leonor and Josh Eden stretch the pizza dough with their hands before they get ready to go into the oven.
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Chef Josh "Shorty" Eden mans the oven. He's known Dufresne since they were both in high school, and now he's Stretch Pizza's official pizza "launcher."
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Eden has to work strategically, checking on the pies constantly and sometimes dropping them into the lower oven to finish them off, where the temperature is slightly cooler.
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The mise-en-place for all the pizza toppings.
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A container filled with the Everything Bagel spice that Dufresne uses on his Everything Bagel pizza, which features cream cheese and aged mozzarella.
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A sprinkling of cheese. It's a blend of pre-shredded Grande mozzarella, some full fat, some skim, and a 50/50 bag of skim and provolone.
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Leonor adds the final touches of cheese on a pie.
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The Humble Pie, a collaboration from chef Simone Tong (left) of Silver Apricot, and an Everything Bagel Pizza (center), before they're placed in the oven. Tong worked for Dufresne for a number of years, both at wd~50 and later at his East Village restaurant, Alder.
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Chef Matt Birnbaum slices each of the pies before they're ready to be served.
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A close-up of the Everything Bagel pizza.
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From left to right: Wylie Dufresne, Jimmy Leonor, Josh Eden, and Matt Birnbaum, outside Breads Bakery where Stretch Pizza is doing its residency.
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