Pizza on a Baking Steel

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In the original review of baking stones, steel stones weren’t covered because they weren’t yet available. So here’s a test run of the Baking Steel. Just like cast iron, the Baking Steel is virtually indestructible, heats up a bit quicker and conducts heat really well. It’s larger (14×16 inches), and rectangularly shaped, while the cast-iron Lodge product is round, and smaller, with more chance for stray ingredients to go overboard. That’s in favor of this alternative metal product.

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Here’s a breakfast pizza with prosciutto, cherry tomatoes, sautéed kale, soft goat cheese and fresh thyme, baked on our olive oil dough with an egg cracked on top.

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This one’s a little thicker so that the crust would be nice and puffy.

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This is a traditional Margherita pizza with homemade tomato sauce, mozzarella and fresh basil.

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Happy baking!

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705 thoughts to “Pizza on a Baking Steel”

  1. While I love a good white garlic pie (as it is hard to screw up), a classic, well made, New York thin-crust (but not crispy crust), cheese pizza is hard to top. Simple and timeless. Also incredibly difficult to make in my experience.

  2. I make a simple pizza with some Trader Joe’s bruscetta topping and aged white cheddar cheese. If my wife’s not home I add mushrooms!

  3. My favorite pizza is topped with fresh mozzarella, grape tomatoes, bacon jam, arugula, and a spritz of lemon juice. So fresh, so tasty! Thanks for the contest!

  4. Can’t beat a margarita pizza with homegrown tomato and basil – but I enjoyed pizza with “salsa golf,” a combination of mayo and ketchup, while in Argentina and would love to make some of that, too!

  5. Our current favorite pizza is thin crust onion, peppers and sausage, with sliced garlic on it .. Would love to win this not having to worry about breaking would be super.

  6. We just had a fig jam, caramelized onion and pear gorgonzola pizza that I could just cry it was sooo delicious. I gifted a Baking Steel to my brother-in-law for Christmas.

  7. Hard to choose a favorite pizza but lately I’ve been having breakfast pizza. Eggs and bacon or prosciutto and some cheese on whole wheat crust.

  8. I like to make a Philly cheese steak pizza, with sliced steak, green and red peppers, mushrooms, onions and mozzarella. Yummmmmm.

  9. The best pizza is the one made with the freshest ingredients and eaten hot out of the oven (if only I had a baking steel). Some of my favorite toppings are mozzarella di bufala, vine ripened roasted tomatoes, prosciutto, and basil.

  10. I have been making 5 minute bread for just a couple of months now. My husband and I love the ease and convenience. Its also great to be able to make pizza with this dough whenever the mood hits. Thanks so much. Wendy

  11. We like to do a pizza with pesto, thin-sliced par-boiled potatoes, and goat cheese. It tastes like summer 🙂

  12. My favorite is olive oil dough thin crust, with your homemade tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, onions, and anchovies.

  13. I like pizza in general, among the favorites I can think of corn, mushrooms and black olives or garlic and parsley 🙂

  14. Our favorite is a goat cheese pizza with fig spread and mozzerala with orange zest plus arugula added after baking

  15. My favorite pizza is thin crust with homemade sauce (both from recipes in Pizza in 5) with Mozzarella for the kids or arugula for me!

  16. Mushrooms, thinly sliced red onions, and spinach that has been cut in chiffonade style. A white sauce with some garlic and a little mozzarella – yum!

  17. I love to make all kinds of pizza. It’s one of myfavorite meals. Taco Pizza is a special favorite – with cold toppings added after baking.

  18. My husband makes a great whole wheat thin crust pizza our pizza season is slowly coming to an end due to how hot it makes our kitchen

  19. We love home-baked pizza. This July I’ll taste Chicago pizza and see if it compares. I’m thinking home-baked will win, any kind, any topping.

  20. I made pizza dough for the first time last weekend. A friend read me the baking steel, no knead recipe…and I took photos and texted them to her along the way. “no no….smoother”……”hows this”……”no no, think smooth as a baby’s bottom”…..”hows this”…..”good! now cover with a damp towel and walk away”. I youtubed how to stretch the pizza and we made a goat cheese pizza and a mozzarella and ricotta pizza. They were SO delicious! I want to make more and more pizza! The only thing missing now is a baking steel and a cook book! Please oh please!

  21. Our new favorite is a creamy garlic white sauce with sautéed spinach bacon and feta and mozzarella on a my own whole wheat pretzel dough crust. It’s so good!

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