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During the pandemic I learned how to make great Neapolitan style pizza in a normal kitchen oven. To get great pizza you usually need very high heat (~500° / ~93
by rmetzler 4y ago
During the pandemic I learned how to make great Neapolitan style pizza in a normal kitchen oven. To get great pizza you usually need very high heat (~500° / ~930°F) so the pizza cooks very fast and gets cross and soft at the same time. If you use less heat the cooking will take longer and the longer you have it in the oven the more dryer it gets.
So you need either a pizza stone or cast iron pan to transfer a lot of heat fast. I bought a skillet since it costs the same, I have more control over the pizza making process (e.g. browning the bottom on the stove before putting it in the oven), and can use it for steaks and such.
- hef19898 4y agoYou cab get your oven to 500 degrees C?? I need one like that, not for cooking but for heat treatment of blades at home!
- leobg 4y agoIf you use the grill function and put in a cast iron pan, the pan will heat up to those levels even if your oven normally just goes up to, say, 250 degrees Celsius.
- fulafel 4y agoI read it as saying you don't need 500C if you have a pizza stone or cast iron pan for transferring heat fast. So use a object that has a significant heat capacity to buffer heat, and you don't need the oven to be as hot. (Stone has higher heat capacity per unit mass than iron, but large cast iron pans are heavier than typical pizza stones, so the two objects probably have similar heat capacities.)
- askvictor 4y agoPyrolytic ovens can get up around that temperature in their cleaning cycle, but you'd need to defeat the locking mechanism.
- samus 4y agoThe ones in pizzerias presumably can
- dgemm 4y agoPizza steels are very popular for that reason.