This rule makes every pizza better : Toppings may go on last, but they’re the part of the pizza you should think of first.

Nothing destroys a pizza faster than an undercooked mushroom. Too firm, chewy in all the wrong ways, and also somehow … sweaty … it is one of the serial killers of great pies, matched only by undercooked onions (crunchy, pungent) and suspiciously chewy bacon. We should all know to avoid these obvious offenders by now. But think about it: When was the last time you suffered through a pizza that…