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Why does your pizza dough come out bready? Mistake #1 - no salt . You must have salt in a dough recipe. If you don’t it will taste bland and flat. This by itself could be causing it to taste the way you are describing as “bready”. For every 3 cups of flour, you should be adding at least 1 tsp of salt minimum. Mistake #2 - adding sugar .  The recipe is calling for sugar to be added, ostensibly to provide food for the yeast. There is no reason to do this. First, because instant yeast doesn’t need to be started before using it (active dry yeast does), but more importantly because yeast eats flour! Yeast will convert the starches in flour (slowly) into the sugar it needs to live and give you a slower and more flavor-filled rise. If you want to quicken the conversion of starch to get a better rise, you are better off using some diastatic malt powder, which has enzymes that help yeast convert the flour into food. Sugar is junk food for yeast, there is no need for it. Mistake #3 - quick r...