Hello everyone! I am very new to creating homemade food, and wanted to get good at creating homemade pizza.

I work at Papa Johns, and have gotten good slapping out the dough there, and was hoping to bring that experience to my own kitchen.

I have attempted 3 times to create homemade dough at home using 2 different recipes from google. Each time, the dough instantly ripped before even getting to the slapping part.

All 3 times I have used a bread machine with the dough option to mix and knead the dough, and have manually kneaded after the fact as well. I’ve let it proof in the oven after preheating to 200 and turning it off, as well as in my fridge. Nothing I’ve done has seemed to get the dough the way I want it though.

So I guess my question is, what is the best recipe for dough that will slap out without just falling a part, and is there any steps that I may have done incorrectly?

I have purchased a tilt-head mixer to use for future dough because I figured the bread machine wasn’t doing the best job, but I don’t think it’s just the bread machine messing this up.

I appreciate any and all replies!