The Publix Bakery Find Customers Buy Every Single Visit

Make pizza night your own. Instead of ordering a pie for delivery or pulling a frozen disk out of the freezer, craft your own and put whatever you want on top. The hardest part is making the dough. Luckily, in the Publix bakery, you can pick up fresh pizza dough to keep on hand for your next craving. The ball of yeast, water, salt, sugar, and flour is one of the 10 items we found Publix shoppers pick up on every visit.

A thread on Reddit highlights just what makes the dough so easy: "Bought pre-packaged dough from Publix yesterday and made homemade pizza for dinner." The ability to grab a ball of dough, then top with your own sauce, cheese, and toppings is handy. When asked, another commenter told people where to find it: "there's a little fridge in the bakery section ... They have both balls and dough that's already rolled out flat." One commenter who says they used to work in the Publix bakery points out that the difference between the two is that the balled ones are made in-store fresh daily, and the flat rounds are made elsewhere and shipped frozen.

On Facebook, a poster who uses the dough to make NY-style thin crust recommended it to fellow pizza lovers. Commenters jumped in to agree: "We've used that dough a lot!! It's pretty good!"

If you don't have plans to use the dough immediately, you can freeze it in a freezer-safe bag. This stops the yeast from eating the sugars, which, once thawed, get back to work. Before baking, set it out on the counter for a few hours to thaw.

As for toppings, you're allowed to make whatever wild style of pizza you can dream up without the person on the phone judging you. To get your creativity flowing, take a look at our list of inventive pizza toppings you can find at Trader Joe's to keep in mind as you wander up and down the aisles. The Reddit user who said they worked in the Publix bakery got in the inventive spirit by suggesting Buffalo chicken dip, mozzarella, and garlic butter.

One note about store-bought doughs, according to Reddit, is that they struggle in high-heat ovens like an Ooni. As a commenter on another thread puts it, "those doughs tend to have a lot of easily burnt sugar and are meant for 350 [degrees Fahrenheit]." If you're using an at-home pizza oven, try our recipe for a basic pizza dough to build a foundation for your next pie.