Improve your pizza making
When you’re preparing your pizza you’ve probably wondered which order your tomato, cheese and toppings should go. Sometimes this is actually a hotly debated topic depending on where you are in the world. So should you put the cheese or tomato first? Do you put toppings or cheese on pizza […]
A wood fired oven can be used for cooking many foods apart from just pizza. People have been cooking bread in a wood fired oven for thousands of years. There is something very satisfying about cooking with fire, and the charring and wood smoke can add great flavors to most […]
Welcome to my buyers guide for the home pizza oven. Here is all my research I made when looking to buy or build my own oven. I’ve put it all here for you for some instructions when looking at what to get. If you’re looking to get a pizza oven […]
Pizza dough has a limited life once its been made and so needs to be kept in the right conditions to last. If its stored incorrectly or kept for too long then the dough starts to taste unpleasant and becomes a floppy blob which isn’t workable. On top of that, […]
If you’re cooking pizza from scratch with raw dough, you’ll be wondering if you need to cook the base first before you add your toppings. Some recipes will tell you to do it, and some will say don’t – it’s pretty confusing. I’ll properly answer that question for you here. […]
When you fire up your pizza oven, it can be unclear when it is ready to start cooking your first pizza. It’s important to get it right – you’ve spent all that time making your dough and getting the toppings ready. Here are some ways that you can tell when […]
Homemade pizza will often rise too much to produce a thick, bready pizza, rather than a nice thin crispy crust which everyone aims for. I used to get this problem all the time when I started, and my pizzas were pretty inconsistent. With a little knowhow, you can get your […]
Soggy pizza is probably the most common problem that everyone get’s when starting to make pizza. Your pizza looks cooked, the crust is browned, but you bite into a slice to find it’s doughy and inedible in the middle. Luckily this is fairly straightforward to fix by following the steps […]
Using your pizza stone regular can build up a blackened surface to the stone. This seasoned appearance doesn’t usually cause any problems until it starts smoking – and then you can find yourself in the annoying situation of smoking out your house when ever you fire it up to cook […]
So you’ve got your new pizza oven and are soon to be an Italian pizzaiolo. Now you just need some new tools to get creating delicious hot pizzas at home. A wood fired pizza oven needs a different pizza peel than one you would use in a regular oven. The […]
Welcome to CK. I’m Tom and this is my website devoted to pizza. I’ve been perfecting the best recipes and techniques over the years. Here you will find all my tips for creating great pizza at home. Enjoy!
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