I’m not quite ready to go as crazy as this guy did and clip the lock off my oven so that I can bake pizzas using the 900 degree self cleaning cycle, but I stepped up my homemade pizza game last night and was pretty happy with the results. Rather than grill it, I preheated my stone for an hour at 550 (my oven goes over 500, nice!) and made a sauce and dough from the Gourmet cookbook (the dough recipe came originally from Chris Bianco. I ended up with a little too much char on the bottom, but the pizza was thin and crispy and chewy and I think infinitely better than any takeout pizza I can get in Orlando.

I’m not quite ready to go as crazy as this guy did and clip the lock off my oven so that I can bake pizzas using the 900 degree self cleaning cycle, but I stepped up my homemade pizza game last night and was pretty happy with the results.

Rather than grill it, I preheated my stone for an hour at 550 (my oven goes over 500, nice!) and made a sauce and dough from the Gourmet cookbook (the dough recipe came originally from Chris Bianco.

I ended up with a little too much char on the bottom, but the pizza was thin and crispy and chewy and I think infinitely better than any takeout pizza I can get in Orlando.