The pizza tour

Making pizza at Woodstock's is a process. We make the sauce and crust fresh every morning, well before we open, and prepare the meats, cheese and vegetables that go on it. Here's how the pizza the Willamette Valley loves gets made.

  1. Trays of fresh dough balls on a floured counter
    Stand-in photo

    Every morning

    All the ingredients are brought together and we make yet another batch of our crust. We make our crusts fresh every day, never frozen or pre-packaged.

  2. Hands pressing out a round of pizza dough on a floured counter
    Stand-in photo

    Rolled, kneaded, separated

    After the dough is mixed, it's rolled, kneaded, and separated so it's ready to become the crust that makes our pizzas unique.

  3. Hands tossing a round of pizza dough in the air
    Stand-in photo

    The toss

    Only a few hours later, we open. One of our coordinated employees tosses the crust to a uniform thickness and shape. Just anyone cannot do this. One wrong throw and you have a decapitation. It's not a pretty sight, and then the person has to be demoted to customer footstool. This is why only the most talented of our employees throw the crust.

  4. Red sauce ladled onto a raw crust
    Stand-in photo

    Sauce

    After the crust is thrown, sauce is generously ladled onto the soon-to-be pizza.

  5. A heap of shredded mozzarella on a sauced crust
    Stand-in photo

    Cheese, heaped

    We use only 100% real cheese. Over a pound of cheese went onto this pizza. No farm animals were abused in the making of this pizza or our website.

  6. Bins of fresh pizza toppings
    Stand-in photo

    The Bin o' Toppings

    From our glorious Bin o' Toppings we get the meats, cheese and vegetables you ordered, and they're liberally applied, giving a taste of each in every bite.

  7. A pizza going into a gas deck oven on a peel
    Stand-in photo

    Into the oven

    Note the grace used: pizza being put in, flesh not touching the oven, screams not echoing through the room. We watch the pizzas carefully. No pizza is allowed to overcook or burn.

  8. A baked pizza being cut into slices
    Stand-in photo

    Cut with precision

    When the pizza is done it comes out to be cut, with such precision that you can either figure the radius of the pizza, or remove a perfect slice and calculate pi.

  9. A Woodstock's Pizza Parlor box, Est. 1977, with pizzas flying over the Benton County Courthouse
    Photo: Google contributor

    Boxed

    Finally, the pizza is boxed and ready to be served or delivered. Look for the Benton County Courthouse on the lid.

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