I've been cooking pizzas at home almost every day for months now, I figured that was as good as they get and dare I say they are quite good.
Recently I had an opportunity to use an oldschool wood fired oven though and that thing could get HOT. I'm not sure how hot exactly since there was nothing I could use to measure the temperature but it could cook a pizza in around 2 minutes as opposed to the 20 minutes it takes at home in my electric oven.
I gotta say, the difference it makes in my usual pizza dough is huge, the ones I made weren't just good but sublime pizza excellence once I got the hang of it.
Now I know for sure that I need to get hotter at home too. I looked around for high temperature ovens but they are damn expensive around here so I figured I could maybe tweak my current oven.
The simplest idea I had was to place a steel plate in direct contact with the bottom heating rods and cook my pizza on that. I'm looking for a suitable plate right now but I'm curious, has anyone tried this? Did it make the required difference?
Best Answer
Using a baking stone is the more traditional approach than steel plate.
Here’s a video showing how to use a pizza stone.
There are some who say it doesn’t foo that much, though.
You can purchase them online or in store at many stores.