Pizza on a Baking Steel
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.
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.
This one’s a little thicker so that the crust would be nice and puffy.
This is a traditional Margherita pizza with homemade tomato sauce, mozzarella and fresh basil.
Happy baking!
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Anything! I’m a guy! I never met a pizza topping I didn’t like!!
I love Margherita pizza, the simplicity of it is just perfect. I made a great pizza not too long ago with roasted tomatoes, oil cured olives, goat cheese, fresh herbs, and an egg.
I’d love to try out the Baking Steel for the same reasons you mentioned, my stone has little handles which don’t allow it to be fully flat.
-Veronica
I have your pizza book already but I haven’t actually tried any of the pizzas in it… I have, however, bookmarked in it the “Mexican-Style Corn Flatbread with Tomatillo, Chiles, and Queso Campesino” because it sounds delicious. I might have to try it out this week! Oh, and I’d love another copy of the book to give to my stepdaughter who is getting married this year 🙂
Pepperoni in a wood fired pizza oven. Noting beats this ever. People always eat pepperoni over any other pizza!
My favorite pizza is mostly plain, just sauce, cheese and mushrooms. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love Sicilian Pizza baked in a wood fired oven. I like fresh tomato sauce (just a little), mozzarella, onions, mushroom, and salami…. plus a big drizzle of Sicilian olive oil. And very crisp, a little charred!
Buon Gustaio!
Filippo
Our favorite pizza is a NY-style with pepperoni and sliced peperoncini peppers.
Olive oil
Basil
Tomatos
I’m a sucker for breakfast pizza, especially from a local mobile vendor here in Austin called Bola Pizza. Would love to make my own on a steel!
Vegan roasted veggie with caramelized onion….so good!!
Pesto, goat cheese, and sundered tomatoes — my absolute favorite!
Oops. Make that sundried. Auto-correct has never heard of them, I guess.
After reading all the posts,mi think I need your book, I’m missing out on new pizza ideas. Usually, I’m a purest, plain cheese.
I like a veg pizza no cheese with chopped fresh arugula on top
Hmmm…anything with tomato,garlic & Basil!
I love a shrimp and pesto pizza. Delicious!
Pizza on the grill is a family favorite. Any topoings ! The kids love to do mini pizzas and pick their own toppings.
Prosciutto and Arugula … Or Shrimp, Pesto and Sundries Tomato please 🙂
My new favorite has yummy artichokes on top!
Margerita all the way!
I would love to win this package! Our favorite pizza – is black bean, barbecue and cilantro – it is really good – sounds strange but great!
A BBQ chicken pizza with red onions made on the grill
My favorite pizza by far is the thin crust St. Louis-style, specifically Imo’s. It’s a divisive pizza, to be sure. People from St. Louis love it or hate it. Almost all out-of-towners hate it. And I can’t get enough of it.
Hot cherry peppers, pineapple, and bacon. Spicy, sweet, and salty!
Hot Sopressata with basil topped with honey. Neapolitan style crust, baked in a wood fire oven! Yum!
This is the best pizza ever – thank you for all your efforts!!!
Sweet Italian sausage with radicchio, asiago and fresh mozzarella
My favorite is New York Style, sausage & mushroom
Pizza is one of the best foods on this planet! I love a good BBQ Chicken Pizza or a wonderful crispy thick crust cheese pizza 🙂
I like a good blanco with thin crust and spinach basil mix topping. Delish!
Pepperoni! in a pizza oven preferably. good.
My favorite pizza is one that has the works on it–lots of meat and lots of veggies.
Favorite pie is no knead bread dough ttopped with some hand crushed tomatoes, chorizo, spinach, pickled red onions, and some cotija or mozzarella cheese. The fat from the chorizo renders and combines with the tomato juice and cheese to form an amazingly flavorful sauce. Unreal even on a broken crappy baking stone. Unimaginable on a baking strel
My Favorite Pizza is Hawaiian. Ham, Pineapple, Halved cherries, and slivered almonds. Yummmm!!
My favorite pizza is sauce made from San Marzano tomatoes, shredded chicken, chopped red onion, shredded mozzarella, fresh ribbons of basil and freshly grated parmesan cheese! And I make my crust cracker thin and brush it with olive oil…HEAVEN!
Italian sausage and broccoli rabe on a Neapolitan style crust. I hope that the baking steel and your book will get me closer to my favorite restaurant version.
I like black and green olives on mine. I had it once from a Jewish deli and now I make it at home.
We recently made a delicious pizza with a pesto cream base, homemade raw milk mozzarella, mushrooms, pine nuts, and a few fresh basil leaves. And we used Nancy Silverton’s pizza dough recipe. It was outstanding! 😉
I’ve always been a sucker for the classics: Plain cheese is my #1 goto.
I always order a plain cheese whenever I move to a new area. That way, I can tell if they’re dough is freshly made and if their other ingredients are high quality or frozen garbage.
My FAVORITE pizza is with chicken, spinach, pesto, cherry tomatoes, katamala olives and goat cheese! Absolutely divine
Sausage pizza! (made with Jimmy Dean Hot Breakfast Sausage)
I love my pizza with tomato, dabs of ricotta,
carmelized onion in olive oil, parm cheese,
and oregano,
I love artichoke hearts, shrimp, pesto and a bit of fontina on a terrific crust.
Pepperoni is my classic.
My favorite pizza is baked on the grill, then rub raw garlic on the crust,spread dollops of goat cheese, toss on roasted garlic slivers, 2 shades of cherry tomatos (slightly squeezed)and topped with sliced fresh from the garden basil. Usually throw it back on the grill for 2 minutes. Yum!
I do a Neapolitan style crust with shiitake mushrooms sautéed in butter and sherry, smoked gouda, romano, pancetta, and fresh thyme. Would love to make it on a Baking Steel!
My favorite pizza starts with a thin layer of olive oil, some crushed garlic, fresh baby spinach, feta cheese, sundried tomatoes, pine nuts, mozzarella and some chopped basil…It’s heaven on dough!
Just a simple Margherita pizza. No frills. Topped with fresh basil from the garden.
My favorite way to cook and eat pizza is to start it in the dutch oven on the stove so that it’s slightly blackened on the bottom before finishing it in the oven on broil.
I often top it with: marinara, cheese, kalamata olives, pepper flakes and rosemary. Everyone says it’s the best pizza ever!
My all time fave pizza is: wild chanterelle mushrooms, truffle cheese, pecorino and finishing salt! Scrumptious!
I would love to win this. I make pizza all the time. Favorite topping combo is pepperoni, green pepper, bacon, basil, and fresh garlic.