/ck/ - Food & Cooking

The high heat, stone, long preheat and peal are all working towards the goal of a fast and extreme heat transfer to the crust. A steel works better than a stone but is more expensive and is heavy as fuck so limp wristed faggots don't like the steel. The preheat time is nonsense. The preheat time should be long enough to heat the large thermal mass of the steel/stone if you can do that in 45min great. The wood fire is for the heat, as some ovens don't like going to a high temperature. If your oven will go up to 600F preheat with that then switch to the high broil when cooking which will go above that limit. The heating element will go way over 1500F. The peal is so you aren't fighting with a 50 pound steel plate trying to turn your pizza it's a tool that makes your life easier. Use whatever you want to move your pizza around but the peal is the single tasker designed tool for the job. Placing a sheet of paper under your pizza and pulling on that to move it around will slightly lower the heat transfer from the steel/stone to the crust but it works if you have nothing else.

In the end you can make okay pizza by throwing a premade frozen pizza onto a round aluminum pizza pan putting on more toppings and cooking it at 400F for 30min.

>>17176043
Make sure she knows about Weee and Yamibuy, do NOT let her pay Amazon prices for ethnic Asian foods.

>>17074285
Jayoe

Tell me your favorite frugal flavorful dinners for family.