Recipes

[timeless]

Years ago, I got a pizza stone and never did figure out how to use it.  I recall not knowing if I needed a special "spatula" to pull the cooked pizza off the stone, or do I take the whole thing out of the oven (seemed just wrong...where do I put that big hot thing?)

So it got tossed.

Since then, I'm willing to try again and am asking those who have one, how do you use it?

If you also have a pizza dough recipe...Yes, Please!!!

[patbz]

We have two pizza stones in our oven ( one on each rack) and we never remove them, regardless of what we are baking. We use the thing that has a wooden handle and a large flat surface to remove the pizza.

[AuntG]

I ended up tossing mine out too.  I always took it out of the oven with the pizza still on it. Probably came from a Pampered Chef party.

[Caffeina]

I have one similar to this. The stone sits in its own rack, and I put the whole thing in the oven while it's preheating. When I'm ready to bake the pizza, I pull the oven rack out, put the pizza on the stone, and push the oven rack back in. When the pizza's done I slide the oven rack out, then use potholders to lift the pizza stone out by its rack's handles and sit it on a heatproof surface.

[sabatini]

Hi there, @timeless. I like to make it as easy as possible when I make pizza.

The 'spatula' I use is a rimless cookie sheet w/ a piece of heavy duty foil.

Spray the foil w/ cooking spray, lay it onto the cookie sheet, assemble your pizza, then slide the whole thing off the rimless sheet & onto the pizza stone.

Easy!

Have fun!

[timeless]

@AuntG 

"Probably came from a Pampered Chef party."

LOL!!!  Been there...with you.

[timeless]

@sabatini 

"The 'spatula' I use is a rimless cookie sheet w/ a piece of heavy duty foil.

Spray the foil w/ cooking spray, lay it onto the cookie sheet, assemble your pizza, then slide the whole thing off the rimless sheet & onto the pizza stone.

Easy!"

A rimless cookie sheet?  What is that?

[FranandZoe]

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@timeless wrote:

@sabatini 

"The 'spatula' I use is a rimless cookie sheet w/ a piece of heavy duty foil.

Spray the foil w/ cooking spray, lay it onto the cookie sheet, assemble your pizza, then slide the whole thing off the rimless sheet & onto the pizza stone.

Easy!"

A rimless cookie sheet?  What is that?

@timeless  Completelly flat - no edge or rim.

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[deepwaterdotter]

I use a loaf of Rhodes frozen pizza dough from the grocery store.

[Sooner]

We make all our pizzas.  We like the combo of less sauce, no so much cheese, and lots of veggies.  

We have no standard recipe--sometimes use our bread machine, sometimes even a bought crust in a tube, or a cauliflower crust plain pizza and add toppings.  But we do make them ofen, using an old Le Creuset enamled cast iron pizza pan that we preheat.