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We have a daughter who has excelled at pizza making.  When she gets going, dinner is always fun.  Now that the weather is warm, we are moving outside and claiming the barbecue as our pizza oven. Here are her secrets and tools. Pizza stones and steels are the flat surfaces upon which you will cook your pie – they both work.  Steels get hotter than stones, so the pizza cooks 30% faster, needs careful watching to avoid overcooking, and the crust will be crispier than on a stone.  Cook’s Illustrated suggests preheating a pizza steel on a pizza stone to...

We have a daughter who has excelled at pizza making.  When she gets going, dinner is always fun.  Now that the weather is warm, we are moving outside and claiming the barbecue as our pizza oven. Here are her secrets and tools. Pizza stones and steels are the flat surfaces upon which you will cook your pie – they both work.  Steels get hotter than stones, so the pizza cooks 30% faster, needs careful watching to avoid overcooking, and the crust will be crispier than on a stone.  Cook’s Illustrated suggests preheating a pizza steel on a pizza stone to...