The Gluten-Free Pizza Dough Taste Test: We Tried 11 Mixes and Ranked Them — Shopping

As Jane Austen once said, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a mouth, must love pizza." Okay, maybe I'm misquoting her a bit, but the sentiment rings true. I've never in my life met a person who didn't like pizza — not even the cheese-hater I married.

And because pizza is probably the most universally well-liked food there ever was, it's no surprise that many food manufacturers have come to the rescue of those who can't eat pizza in its original gluten-laden form. I found no fewer than 11 different brands of gluten-free pizza dough mix on the market, all purporting to make a crust "just like the real thing."

I don't follow a gluten-free diet, but I have friends who do, so knowing which mix will deliver delicious results seems like useful information to have. If I'm going to have one of them over for pizza and a movie, I don't want to accidentally pick the gross one.

So I rounded up all the mixes (many of them I had to order because they weren't carried in my local stores), dusted off my pizza pan, and got to work testing them out.

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