Pizza stones Tips please 1678Bob (this one)" This thread inspired me to make some pizza for dinner last night. This bit of the thread had me curious as I could see at least theoretically...
Measure your oven, goto a home center, buy an unglazed floor tile large enough to fit in your oven. This will be much cheaper than those things labelled as a pizza stone and will work the same. If your oven has a hard time cooking things evenly, leave it in full time. My oven was horrible, now it is a dream with a $5 floor tile. Cleaning, never had to clean mine.
Another tip for making a good pizza is to set your oven to its highest setting usually 500 and leave it there for an 1-2 to 1 hour to fully preheat the oven, then bake the pizza. This allows the heat to fully soak into the oven and when you place a cold pizza in the oven it will recover quicker. Shoving it in after the light goes out indicating it has reached temperature is not the way to preheat an oven for pizza.
This site says 1 hr which is what I do.
Naysayers may disagree with the amount of preheat time. Try it for yourself and report on your results.
Pizza stones Tips please 1679Edwin Pawlowski Precisely. But with radiation heat transfer proximity is of primary importance, typical home ovens are not constructed to...
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