CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL'S MILK STREET TELEVISION: Milk Street Pizza Party

By Jennifer Robinson / Web Producer

Published October 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM PDT

Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025 at 1:30 pm. on KPBS TV / Stream wtih KPBS+

It's pizza night at Milk Street! Christopher Kimball solves the problem of tough dough with his recipe for Easy-Stretch Yogurt Pizza Dough.

This “Easy-Stretch” dough solves the problem of a hard-to-work with dough, which can lead to overworking it and resulting in a tough, dense crust. A couple things are going on here: as he says in the video, he took inspiration from flatbreads and added yogurt and olive oil for stretchiness, flavor, and chew. Secondly, this recipe incorporates a lesson we learned years ago from the world’s best focaccia, which our editorial director J.M. Hirsch learned from Panificio Fiore in Bari, Italy. Their dough was so wet that it was basically pourable, oozing from buckets before cut and shaped. The result was a chewy, open, airy crumb that made us high-hydration converts. The reason for this is that wetness weakens the gluten, which means weaker structure. This allows steam to tear through the gluten and produce bigger bubbles in the crust.

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Season 9: CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL'S MILK STREET TELEVISION explores the world in search of techniques and ingredients that can transform your home cooking, producing bolder dishes with less time and effort. Season nine features gorgeous on-location travel segments, and mouth-watering dishes and recipes, from over a dozen countries — including Italy, Mexico, Romania, Austria, South Korea, and Malaysia — along with segments filmed at their headquarters at 177 Milk Street in downtown Boston. Each episode introduces viewers to cooks from around the world, showcasing how their inspiration results in faster, easier, and bolder recipes.

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Tune in for a new season 9 of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television! From the original spaghetti and meatballs to bright Malaysian curries to Mexican street food, the ninth season brings culinary inspiration from more than 20 countries around the world.

CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL'S MILK STREET TELEVISION: Milk Street Pizza Party

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