How to Use a Pizza Stone

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A pizza stone can help distribute heat evenly across the pizza base and make the pizza's dough crispy.

Step 1: Place pizza stone on lowest rack
Place pizza stone in a cold oven on the lowest rack.

Tip
Never put a cold pizza stone in a hot oven as it can crack the stone.

Step 2: Pre-heat oven
Pre-heat your oven to 450 degrees.

Step 3: Put cornmeal on paddle
Sprinkle cornmeal on pizza paddle.

Tip
Sprinkling cornmeal on pizza paddle helps prevent the pizza from sticking to the paddle and the pizza stone.

Step 4: Put dough, sauce, toppings on cornmeal
Put dough, sauce, and toppings on top of corn meal.

Step 5: Slide pizza onto stone in oven and cook
Slide pizza onto the hot stone and cook for 10 minutes.

Step 6: Slide cooked pizza onto paddle, slice, eat
Slide pizza back onto the paddle, slice the pizza, and eat.

Tip
Do not use a knife or pizza cutter on a pizza stone. Your knife or pizza cutter will likely be damaged.

Step 7: Cool stone, clean
Let the stone cool and clean with warm water and no soap.

Did You Know?
The margherita pizza was born in 1889, when Queen Margherita Teresa Giovanni visited Naples, Italy.