Improve your pizza making
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. […]
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 […]
Sometimes cooking pizza can get messy. Especially when you’ve got a sticky pizza dough and you need to use flour to stop it sticking to your worktop or your peel. So you might be wondering if you can use some kitchen staples such as parchment paper (also known as baking […]
Sometimes time isn’t on your side, and you need to proof pizza dough fast and speed up your rise so you can get making that pizza as soon as possible. It’s not the best idea to rush the important phase of proofing as it develops texture and flavor. But there […]
Learning a bit more about bakers percentages and dough formulas is an important step in making better pizza more consistently. Hydration is one of these percentages and this affects the pizza dough the most. This article has some information on how to formulate and read percentages. Also answering questions, What […]
Cooking pizza has many tips and tricks which you can learn to turn your amateur bakes into pizzeria level deliciousness. Here is a list of tips ranging from beginner to more advanced tips, which you can add to your pizza making arsenal. Beginner Tips 1. Slowly Proof Your Dough In […]
A pizza stone is a ceramic or stone tile which is placed in the oven to preheat before pizzas are placed on top to bake. It essentially mimics the cooking techniques from a brick oven, where the stone resembles the oven floor. A conventional home oven isn’t designed so well […]
A peel is a tool used in baking, to move food in and out of a hot oven. You get the best pizza when the surface it’s baked on is hot – this gives bread and pizza an ‘oven spring’ which is when the heat makes it rise rapidly. So […]