Only 10 ingredients stand between you and pizza perfection!

The truth is when you start spending a little time consistently making the same meal, you become good at it. Step one is learning the skill, and step two is mastering the flavors. With only 10 ingredients, a few tools, and guidance from a pizza making expert, you and your household can begin the journey of making exceptional pizza—at home! The kind you crave! The one that will ruin all other pizzas for you.

Here’s What You Get in TeachMePizza.com

In-depth video lessons that will give you the understanding and instructions on how to make delicious pizza at home, including: 

➪  Making restaurant-inspired (and simple) dough recipe

➪  Making commercially-tested (secret) sauces

➪  Stretching dough- 2 methods

➪  Topping the Pizza (10+ specialty combinations)

➪  Baking (in multiple oven types)

15+ Party planning & printable menus for pizza nights that everyone enjoys!

Plus, join the #FamilyNightRevolution

Who is Jake Reed? 

I started building my first pizza oven in 2015, when I was already in the restaurant business. Our seasonal, small, tourist town was slow in the winters, and we needed to change up our menu to something families would enjoy (and be willing to buy). Pizza was on every corner, but it was all done in a conventional pizza oven or it was gas-station pizza. With some background in masonry and construction, I woke up one morning and decided to start laying the block for a wood-fired pizza oven in the banquet room attached to the restaurant. 

I became the joke of the town! People mocked me for building my oven. Employees quit when the change was happening. In 2 months, the oven was complete. I’d never built a wood-fired oven, I wasn’t sure if it was even going to cook a pizza correctly. I’d also never made dough from scratch, or sauce for that matter!  

The Day of Truth

We lit our first fired and and tested our first dough recipe. I adjusted the recipe over 10 times in the first year. I tweaked the sauce at least that many times based on customer feedback. We tried cheese after cheese until we had the right one. We built out a menu that was totally unique from our competitors. When I say we worked hard to serve quality food—we worked HARD!! Homemade desserts, crafted salads, fresh dressings, quality ingredients, hand-seasoned wood-fired wings, and a warm, friendly atmosphere. Within 6 months, our pizza business was exploding, and like I said, we were in a small tourist town.

Some of the people who criticized us the most became our most regular customers! It was a time of stretching (literally and figuratively) and learning. I loved making pizza for my customers and found deep satisfaction in offering a product that could affordably feed a family! It was thoroughly rewarding to be a blessing to our community. 

Ultimately, with a family of 4 children, the demands of the restaurant were taking too much of a toll on our young kids. While the restaurant was a family effort at times, I was often gone for long days and missed numerous events on the weekends. 

After we sold our restaurant in 2021, I built a smaller wood-fired oven for our house. Thus, a new passion was born—making pizza for people at our house. Our friends and family love coming over for pizza!

I have a genuine hope that busy families or ones that are looking for a new creative outlet, will try this pizza course. I’ve learned the hard way that time cannot rewind, and we must intentionally choose to invest in the people we love. It will be no one’s fault but our own if we do not use the time we have wisely.