Anyone Have Baking Steel for Pizza?

looks like a great thing to have

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Here’s how it works: the 15-lb steel sheet preheats at 550 for 30-45 minutes. Next, the oven’s broiler is switched on high, blasting the steel with extra heat. Meanwhile, the cook preps the pizza. Within 20 minutes, the steel reaches 700+ degrees (yes, I checked it with my infrared thermometer), and a pie will cook about 3 minutes. The photos above show the (half anchovy/red pepper, half ricotta/parmesan/red pepper/black olive) pizza prior to cooking, at 30 seconds, at 1.5 minutes, and done at 3.5 minutes. Notice the lovely spots underneath, as well as the charred bubbling on top.

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that's how pizza is supposed to cook

I've used a Lodge pizza pan on the grill with excellent results for pizza.

Thanks for the link. I may get one. Any tips on good homeade dough would help too. Ive been very interested n makin my own at home... Never done it

Pizza Steel is the key to amazing homemade pizza at home. Nothing, not a BGE, not a wood fired oven, nothing comes close.

As far as dough recipes, Jim Lahey's outlined in his My Pizza is what Ive been using lately with great results. You basically mix a weighted bit of flour, salt, water, and yeast. Stir three times, cover it and let sit on your counter for 18 hours. Fantastic dough.

Thanks, BO. That's a lot less complicated than the other recipe I read that took 3 days of in and out of the fridge.

I can't wait for mine to come in to try it.

I'm not flour educated. What's a "weighted" flour? I found his recipe and it says "all purpose".

Should have seen the price! He gave me his first born.

Thanks. I don't bake much. I thought it was a type of flour.


Your first born. Pretty good deal. I can't afford that.

Well, I ordered the one online, but you could have some other takers. Wish I'd known before I ordered.