- Oh. (laughs)
I hit myself in the face.
Hi I'm Erin, and I love pizza.
I love everything about pizza.
You've got your crispy crust, your sweet tomato sauce,
and then some mozzarella on top
to bring everything together.
This is not a friendship, this is not a lust,
this is a true love.
I've always kind of had a secret ambition
to work in pizza shack.
Sometimes I'm like maybe I'll just runaway to Italy,
find a nice grandmother to live with,
and she can teach me everything she knows about pizza.
What I've always really wondered
is how can you toss a pizza?
It's a skill I've always wanted to acquire.
So using only the internet, I have been challenged
to learn how to toss pizza dough in just one day.
I'm scared, why am I so scared? (laughs)
Before I go to the internet to learn
how to toss pizza dough, I'm gonna try to do it
with no prior knowledge.
The one thing is do know is that you need a lot of flour.
Make sure things aren't gonna stick.
I don't know how much flour.
I've seen people do this kinda technique before
where you just push the dough down in the middle
and kind of go around.
This is already starting out not as a circle,
so things are going great.
Maybe I'll do some of this, let gravity do the work.
One, two, three.
(laughs) I think it might be time
for me to do a little research.
Since you can learn literally anything
on the internet these days,
I'm gonna watch a couple of videos
to see how to do this.
She's starting with the finger thing
that I was doing, I don't know what the name of that is,
but she was also doing it.
That's interesting.
I've never seen dough stretch on the side of the table.
- [Instructor] The classic way that everyone wants to know
how to learn is the like, tossing of the dough technique.
- That is what I wanna learn.
- [Instructor] You kind of want to create a spinning motion
with your knuckles as you're throwing it in the air.
- Doing it on your knuckles might be a good way to do it
because doing it with my fingers,
I felt like I was poking holes in the dough.
This guy literally just dumped it in a whole thing of flour,
so maybe that's the move.
Oh my God, he's so fast.
How is he doing this?
They're just throwing things around,
and then it's great, and it's a perfect circle.
Oh,
oh my gosh.
I don't know if I'm gonna make it to that in one day,
but we'll see.
He did show me a good technique though
with using both of your hands,
so I'll try that out too.
Number one, I think it's really important
to start out with a good base,
and I really have to focus on making sure
that I set myself up for the toss well.
I'm also gonna try instead of using my fingers,
using my fists, and hopefully that will keep the dough
from becoming too thin.
(lighthearted music)
Got my pizza dough here.
They did a little bit of this back and forth.
From what I remember, they had it on two hands,
and I'm gonna use my fists this time instead of my fingers.
They twisted from the dominant hand
up into my left hand, maybe something (laughs) like this.
Oh, that wasn't too bad.
Is this gonna translate to dough?
I'm not really sure.
But I'm feeling good with this towel.
Got too ambitious.
This is definitely helping,
I'm glad I had this technique for sure,
the towel really helps. (laughs)
After using this towel, I'm not feeling too bad,
I think I can move onto the real thing.
I got myself an apron like a real chef
because whenever I see someone with an apron,
I'm like that person, they know how to cook.
So I'm hoping those skills will transfer to me
through this apron.
All right, I'm gonna try,
instead of using my fingers, to use a fist.
(exhales) I'm so nervous.
(laughs)
Second time's a charm, it's only up from here.
That's the good part of this, right? (laughs)
(laughs) This is supposed to be a smiley face,
but maybe this is how I'm really feeling
about this competition.
I'm having a hard time because I'm not keeping it
on my knuckles.
It starts there, and then by the time it gets back down,
I forget. (laughs)
I saw them do this on the internet,
so that must be what you do.
This helps a lot actually.
I caught it, this is an improvement.
And around.
I feel like I've got the good basics down,
and I wanna try to work on the height,
and maybe getting in a little extra spin in there.
Oh, so much flour in my eyes. (laughs)
I'm tired, but I feel like it's almost there,
I still have hope.
(Erin coughing and spitting)
(laughs) It's so much flour.
(laughs) I caught it.
(upbeat orchestral music)
Whoa. (laughs)
Not bad.
Getting pretty close.
That was really good. (laughs)
I need one more, I need one more.
Let's go, let's go, that was so good.
Look, it's fully intact, it looks beautiful.
This is the perfect dough to make a nice pizza.
I think this is as close as I'm gonna get in a day,
I'm pretty proud of myself.
This really makes me appreciate the people who do this
every single day, and the work they put into it.
And also it makes me appreciate pizza a lot more
which I didn't think was possible.
I'm tired, I'm hungry,
but luckily I have enough dough to make myself a pizza,
so that's what I'm gonna go do right now.
Am I Rhea yet?
Does this make me Rhea?
- Yeah. (Erin laughing)
(lighthearted music)