Pizza is the ultimate mood-dependent food. Some nights call for the simplicity of a Margherita, where a handful of good ingredients do all the work. Other nights, you're after something bold and unexpected, like kimchi and bacon on a crispy crust. Whatever you're feeling, great pizza starts in the same place: high heat, good dough, and a setup that can handle both.

The recipes below were built for the Current® Model P Smart Pizza Oven, an electric pizza oven that reaches up to 850°F and includes eight cooking modes covering everything from Neapolitan to Detroit-style. Whether you're a first-time pizza maker or you've been chasing the perfect leopard-spotted crust for years, there's a recipe here for your mood.

How to Make a Great Homemade Pizza

Before diving into the recipes, a few fundamentals make a real difference regardless of which style you're making.

Use the Right Flour

For Neapolitan-style doughs, you’ll want to find 00 flour. It's finely milled, handles high heat well, and produces that characteristic soft, airy crust. For Detroit-style and pan pizzas, bread flour or all-purpose flour works great and gives you a chewier, more structured crust.

Let Your Dough Rest

Patience in the fermentation stage pays off in flavor. Even a 24-hour cold ferment in the refrigerator improves the complexity and digestibility of your dough. If you have 48 to 72 hours, even better. A rested dough is also significantly easier to stretch without tearing.

Preheat Fully Before You Launch

One of the most common homemade pizza mistakes is loading dough onto a cold or under-heated stone. Give your oven time to fully stabilize at temperature before any pizza goes in. With the Model P, preheat typically takes 15 to 20 minutes depending on the mode selected, and the app notifies you when it's ready so you can focus on prep.

Keep Toppings Restrained

Less is genuinely more when it comes to pizza. Overloaded pies trap moisture, weigh down the crust, and take longer to cook through. A thin, even layer of sauce and moderate toppings let the heat do its job, giving you a crisp bottom and bubbling, properly melted cheese on top.

Dust Your Peel

Use semolina flour or a light dusting of cornmeal on your pizza peel before building your pie. It acts as ball bearings and makes launching smooth and stress-free. A stuck pizza is a sad pizza.

The Recipes: Something for Every Mood

When You Want the Real Thing: Neapolitan Style

Few things in the pizza world are as satisfying as a true Neapolitan. Thin, pillowy, charred at the edges, with just a few quality ingredients doing the heavy lifting. Our Neapolitan Pizza recipe keeps things traditional: classic crust topped with fresh tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil.

How do you make a Neapolitan? The key to getting it right is temperature. Authentic Neapolitan pizza is cooked at 850°F or higher, which means the pie goes from raw to done in roughly two minutes. At those temps, you get the signature "leopard spotting" on the crust: small, irregular char bubbles that signal proper heat and fermentation.

The Model P hits 850°F and includes a dedicated Neapolitan mode that adjusts heat and timing automatically for this style. Select the mode, let the oven reach temperature, and your pizza cooks in minutes. No rotation needed — the cordierite stone distributes heat evenly across the entire cook surface.

When You Want Something Classic

The Margherita Pizza is what many people imagine as the perfect slice: tomato, mozzarella, basil. It's deceptively simple, which means ingredient quality matters more here than on almost any other pie. A few great components done right will always outperform a loaded pizza built on mediocre ingredients.

This is a great entry point for anyone new to homemade pizza oven recipes. The technique is forgiving, the result is universally loved, and it teaches you how to read heat, timing, and crust texture in a way that transfers to every other style.

When You Want a Trademark Crust

Detroit-style is its own category entirely. The Detroit-Style Pepperoni Pizza recipe delivers this style’s hallmarks: a thick, focaccia-like crust that's crispy on the bottom and edges, cheese pressed all the way to the pan edges so it caramelizes into a lacy, crunchy border, and sauce ladled on top rather than underneath.

How do you make a Detroit pizza? It requires a different oven setup than Neapolitan. The Model P includes a dedicated Detroit mode that adjusts heat and timing automatically for pan-style cooking. Its cordierite stone and even heat distribution mean the pan bottom crisps without burning, while the top gets the melty, bubbling finish you're after.

The Current® Detroit-style baking pan is purpose-built for this recipe, with edges sized to help achieve that signature crispy cheese border. If deep-dish or pan pizza is your preference, this is the setup that gets it done.

When You Want Something Unexpected

The Fig Pig Pizza is the recipe you make when you want to shake up your pizza rotation. The name tells you everything you need to know: figs and cooked bacon bits brought together on a crust and finished with a balance of sweet and savory. This kind of creative sweet-and-savory combination works especially well at high heat, where sugars caramelize fast and everything crisps up beautifully. 

When You Want to Go Bold

Developed by Chef Spencer White, who trained in some of Denver's most celebrated kitchens, the Current® Kimchi and Bacon Pizza pushes your pizza expectations. Kimchi brings fermented tang and heat; bacon brings smokiness and salt. The combination on a well-blistered crust is delicious and unlike anything you'd order from a delivery app.

When You Want a Weeknight Crowd-Pleaser

The Apple BBQ Chicken Pizza is built for busy evenings when you want something that feels special without requiring much effort. BBQ sauce stands in for tomato, apple adds a touch of sweetness, and chicken keeps it hearty. It's approachable and comes together fast.

This is also a great recipe to run through the Model P's Pizza Build Calculator in the Current® app. Enter your toppings and dough style, and the app gives you a custom time and temperature recommendation. It's a weeknight shortcut that works.

Ready to Start?

Pick the recipe that matches your mood tonight and head over to the Current® recipe library for full ingredient lists and step-by-step instructions. Each recipe was developed to work with our electric pizza ovens.