60-Second Video Tips: Baking a Perfect Thin-Crust Pizza
Crave perfectly cooked pizza? Andrew Janjigian explains how to simulate a pizzaiolo’s professional oven at home with this simple, but surprising, tip.
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No temp huh
thanks Andrew
Funny how this is the exact opposite of the "Crisp Thin-Crust Pizza" recipe in the ATK TV show cookbook.
I use a pizza iron skillet pan. I will try the top rack next time. Need a thin pizza dough recipe.
The stone is not the best tool. It may store heat, but it emits the heat slowly. A steel can both store and emit the heat faster.
I don't have a pizza stone but I found that if you preheat a cookie sheet it works nearly as well and gets the bottom nice and brown and crispy
DOH! Why didn't I think of this?? Makes so much sense. The heat from the pizza stone on the bottom goes up through the pizza and immediately reflects back on the toppings. Hmm….. I wonder how two pizza stones, one on bottom, and another on shelf just above would work. Then you would have radiant heat from the stones on both sides.
Top is burnt.
Kenji's skillet-broiler pizza beats this: four minutes.
I wonder if different fuel sources effect the flavor of a pizza pie?
does a wood fired pizza differ in taste and texture from one in an electric oven, or one from a gas fueled pizza stove?
Damn delicious
That pizza looks hella good
cool! Chef's bloody hands not included 😉
Any primary school student knows that hot air rises… Why is this a guide?
Thanks for the tips….. Wish I would have known this 2 years ago… Now, I'm in the middle of building my wood fired oven but on rainy or cold days, these tips will come in handy!
I am also curious about what the clips are for–is the pizza on a cloth? My problem using our new pizza stone is that I don't have a paddle, so it stuck (pretty badly) to the cutting board and was lobbed into the stone in a panic (as the fire alarm went off–now I understand the pizza stone never needs to leave the oven. Much learning to do!)
It's a Super Peel and works wonderfully! I love mine.
Wow that looks delicious, me want pizza now.
May I ask what you have rigged up on your pizza peel? Cloth, binder clips?