Recipes

[AuntMame]

I leave my pizza stone in the oven all the time. On the bottom rack. 

I use a Lodge cast-iron pizza pan. I place it directly on the heated pizza stone. 

I make home-made pizza probably once a month. 

I follow America's Test Kitchen's recommendations by cooking the pizza on the stove for a few minutes to get the crust started crisping. Then I place it on the pre-heated pizza stone in the oven. 

For the dough I follow Roberta's Pizza Dough Recipe. Easily Googled. 

[AuntMame]

I also have one of those long-handled pizza paddles. When I bake a frozen pizza I place it directly on the preheated pizza stone and pull it out with the paddle. It gets nice and crisp. The key is preheating the stone. 

I've found it awkward--and perilous--to try to pull out a home-made-dough pizza off the stone with the paddle. So I put the home-made dough into the Lodge cast-iron pan and put that directly on the pizza stone. 

[Desertdi]

I have a Presto® Pizza Pizzazz.   The plate rotates, and it heats from both the top and bottom.     

[jackthebear]

It is called a pizza peel, and if you sprinkle cornmeal on the stone first very easy to put in the pizza and take it out 

[CalminHeart]

I make the pizza on something non-stick and smooth enough to slide the pizza off it.  

I preheat the stone to the same temp as the oven.

I slide the pizza on to the stone.

Cook.  

[wagirl]

I still have a rectangle stone from Pampered Chef and it is a glorous rich, bronzy brown color--must have had it for nearly 40 years, I think. It's a pizza paddle to take it out. I would make the pizza dough in my bread maker. Easy!!

[sabatini]

Hi, @timeless. Like this:

[Puppy Lips]

@timeless I started to read your post and thought I wrote it. Someone gave me a pizza stone years ago. I never used it. Gave it to my DIL I think. But I did try to make my own pizza all long time ago. I spent more on the ingredients than ordering from Dominos. I love Dominos pizza, so that was the end of that adventure.

[ScrapHappy]

I had one of those stones too.  I made my own pizza once in a while but eventually tossed it.  Pizza ia my all time favorite.  There are some very good pizza places near me (not Dominos or Pizza Hut).  If I'm going to eat pizza, it's going to be that and not something I make.

[bargainsgirl]

I never make pizza at home.  We have so many good pizza places and for me it is a treat not to cook night!