One bite of your pizza, and the ones you bake for go "mmm." Learn how in three days.

Not another pizza recipe. Metodo Vivo - The Living Dough Method built by a World Champion, adjusted to your kitchen, your flour and your oven.

Neapolitan Pizza Pro is for the person who is done guessing - who wants a clear system for great pizza in days, instead of another year of YouTube videos, random recipes and dough in the bin.

  • World Champion, Palermo 2022

  • Master Instructor, Scuola Italiana Pizzaioli

  • 5,000+ students worldwide

Your dough tears when you stretch it.

a man stretching the dough that tears

It shrinks back like rubber.

hands stretching the dough

Your crust comes out flat and heavy when the video promised light and airy.

heeavy, flat crust pizza

You bought the right flour. You bought the stone. Maybe even the mixer.

And the pizza is still not the pizza you wanted.

Dough is alive. It reacts to your kitchen, not to the video.

Pizza dough after fermentation

The recipe says three grams of yeast. But that number was true in one kitchen, on one day. If your kitchen is 26°C (79°F) and not 20°C (68°F), the dough over-ferments hours earlier. And the recipe that worked for you in April will fail you in July.

difference betwee a recipe and Danijel's system in dough makin

A recipe gives you numbers. A system teaches you what the numbers depend on: flour, water, temperature, time.

You can start in a kitchen oven. You cannot finish there.

pizza baked 270°C (520°F)

Top-level pizza needs two things: a mixer that really works the dough, and a bake between 350 °C and 450 °C" → (660 °F and 840 °F). At around 270°C (520°F) the crust comes out crispier and drier than a true Neapolitan. That is physics, not a flaw in the method — and you should know it before you spend a cent.

There are two lessons built for exactly that situation. One is a dough mixed entirely by hand — no mixer at all. The other is a bake at around 270°C (520°F), close to the top of what most home ovens reach, so you can see what changes and what to adjust. They are there so you can start tonight, with what you already own.

But this course is not about the oven. It is about learning to read the dough. Get that right first — then equipment becomes the thing that takes you past your local pizzeria, instead of an expensive way to make the same mistakes faster.

Meet Danijel - Your Instructor

  • 2006 – He knew nothing about making pizza. No culinary school, no family pizzeria - nothing.

  • 2006–2017 – Taught himself from scratch: testing, failing, adjusting, testing again.

  • 2017–2020 – Traveled across Italy studying techniques, ovens, flours and ingredients directly at the source.

  • 2022 – Became World Champion in Palermo as an individual competitor.

  • 2023 Distilled everything he learned into his own system: Metodo Vivo - The Living Dough Method.

  • 2024 – Invited to judge the Campionato Mondiale della Pizza in Parma and the Coppa del Mondo di Pizza in Rome.

  • 2026 – Scuola Italiana Pizzaioli Master Instructor - certified to train pizzaioli in their name.

  • Today – More than 5,000 students worldwide have learned from him online.

5,000+ Students - Countless Happy Families, Friends and Customers!

What's included in Neapolitan Pizza Pro

  • Metodo Vivo - The Living Dough Method - You learn to read the dough, not to follow a clock.

  • 25+ video lessons, 300+ minutes total - short lessons you watch and go do

  • Neapolitan dough, direct and indirect - biga and poolish on day three

  • Home conditions: hand-mixed dough and baking at ~270°C (~520 °F) with a stone

  • Printable step guide for every dough

  • Yeast adjustment tables - what to change when your kitchen is warmer or colder

  • Home quantities guide - every dough scaled to 2, 4 or 6 pizzas

  • Flour guide

  • Tools

  • Ingredients Pairing

  • Direct access to me and my team - ask about your dough and get an answer from the people who wrote the course.

  • Official Certificate from Danijel's Pizza Academy

  • Beyond pizza — the same dough makes bread, focaccia sandwiches, bruschetta and fritters.

  • Lifetime access · private community · 30-day money-back guarantee

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LEARN the symptoms - take control

Hand touching a pizza dough

Dough tears when you stretch it - gluten that never finished developing in the mix, dough that got too warm, or salt added too early.

Dough shrinks back like rubber - fermentation and resting time. You will know when your dough is ready, not when the clock says so.

Flat, heavy crust - the yeast was not adjusted to your kitchen, or the hydration did not match the strength of your flour.

Notice what none of these are. Not one of them is your oven.

You are not left alone

Inside our private community you ask about your flour, your oven, the exact dough sitting on your counter - and you get an answer from me and my team.

And it is not only me. Hundreds of people are active in there, and they answer each other too.

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Danijel answering a student question in the community

Students posting their pizzas every day...

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Serious pizza schools cost thousands. Restaurants and professionals pay me thousands more for live training.

This course is $97. One family pizza night out - for a skill you keep for the rest of your life.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a professional mixer?

No - but let me be straight with you. In the lessons you will see me working on a professional spiral mixer with three kilos of dough, because that is the equipment I have in my school. Almost nobody makes pizza that way at home. That is why the course includes a Home Quantities guide: every dough scaled to two, four or six pizzas, and what changes in the mixing when you go smaller. For two pizzas you mix by hand, and there is a lesson for exactly that.

The recipe makes a lot of dough. Can I make just two pizzas?

Yes. Every recipe in the course is written per kilo of flour, the way a professional works. The Home Quantities guide has all of them already scaled down - you weigh what the table says, no maths. One warning it also covers: scaled down, the yeast lands near one gram, and most kitchen scales cannot weigh that. The guide shows you three ways around it.

Do I need a pizza oven to start?

No - and I would rather be straight with you about what that means. You can start in a kitchen oven, and two lessons in this course are built for exactly that: a dough mixed entirely by hand, and a bake at around 270 °C / 520 °F, close to the top of what most home ovens reach, so you can see what changes and what to adjust. You can begin tonight with what you already own.

What you should also know: a true Neapolitan needs a bake of at least 350 °C / 660 °F, and a proper pizza oven that runs between 350 °C and 450 °C / 660 °F and 840 °F is what gives the best results. In a kitchen oven the crust will always be crispier and drier than the one you see in the videos. That is physics, not a flaw in the method — and it is a trade-off worth making at the start, because this course is not about the oven. It is about learning to read the dough. Once you can put out good dough every single time, an oven and a dough mixer are what take you past your local pizzeria. Most people buy the equipment first and still make bad pizza.

I can't find Italian flour where I live. Is that a problem?

No. You do not need my flour - you need to know what to look for on the bag you can buy. The course teaches you to read the label: protein, strength, what the numbers mean, and what to change when the flour is weaker than mine (a direct dough, lower hydration, 20–24 hours). The free flour guide also lists where to buy good flour in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and the EU. It's waiting for you in downloadable section of the lesson on flour inside the course.

My kitchen is very warm (or very cold). Does that change the recipe?

Yes - and that is the whole point of Metodo Vivo. The same recipe that worked for you in April will fail you in July, because dough reacts to your kitchen and not to the video. The course includes Yeast Adjustment Tables: how much to raise or lower the yeast for a warm room, a cold room, a long or short fermentation, chlorinated water, a humid climate. You stop guessing.

I can't find fresh yeast. Can I use dry?

Yes. Use three times less than the fresh yeast in the recipe — every step guide lists both amounts, so you do not have to convert anything yourself.

What if the course isn't for me? Is there a refund?

Yes. You have a full 30-day money-back guarantee. Go through the lessons, make the dough, ask your questions - and if you are not satisfied for any reason, send us one email and you get a full refund. You risk nothing.

What level is this course for?

Any level. No prior experience is needed - and if you already make good pizza, the part you will use most is the reasoning behind each step. Roughly half our students had less than a year of experience when they started; the other half includes professional chefs and pizzeria owners.

How long do I have access, and when does it start?

Immediately after you order, and for life. You go at your own pace and can rewatch any lesson as often as you like.

How do I get into the course after I buy?

The moment your payment goes through you land on a page with a button to your first lesson, and the same link arrives by email. If you ever lose it, write to us in the community or by email and we will send it again.

Can't I learn all this on YouTube?

You can find a lot — I have a channel myself. But free videos give you pieces: one shows mixing, another shows baking, and nobody shows you the whole chain, in order, adjusted to your kitchen. And nobody corrects you when your dough comes out wrong. Information is free everywhere. Corrections are not.

How can you learn something so hands-on online?

The same way my live students learn: I show the technique step by step, and then you ask about your own dough in the community and get an answer from me and my team. That second half is what makes it work - and it is the part a video alone cannot give you.

Is Danijel's English dubbed?

Yes, and we would rather tell you than have you wonder. Danijel teaches in his own language; the lessons are translated and voiced in English so they are easy to follow. Every technique, every number and every correction is his.

Click the button below. And the ones you bake for are going to ask you how you did it.

Can't find the right flour where you live?

I put together a short guide: what to look for on the bag — protein, strength, what the numbers actually mean — and where to buy good flour in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and the EU. Plus what to change when the flour is weaker than mine.

One email, one guide. No spam.

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