What should I have the pizza laying on when I cut it with this?
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I use either a wood or bamboo cutting board. You can cut on a pizza stone, but it only dulls the blade quicker
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The wooden peel takes a beating if you slice your pizza on it (as you realized). We like to slide the hot baked pizza off the peel directly onto a piece of parchment paper on the countertop, and then slice it right there. The peel stays nice that way. You can find a roll of parchment paper at your grocery store near the foil.
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Cut it a bit shorter than usual and use slightly stiffer dough. Use lots of semolina as you cut it.
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Pizza peel and a pizza stone. We get our dough from our favorite New York Pizza place. There are other things that help but those are the essentials.
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Wherever it works best for you. I put mine on the top along one edge so that after I cut the wrap it would have some left over to grab for the next time.
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The recommendation is to preheat with the oven and then place the pizza on it. I find that most frozen pizza's cook better without the stone, just place on center rack.
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You can cut the pizza on it but that would damage the pan, I move it to a cutting board for slicing.
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You can make the pizza right on it! I like to make the crust and bake it for a few minutes and then take it out of the oven to load it up and then pop it back in to finish!
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You could precut it and store it in the freezer. Ours doesn't last long enough to do that in our house :)
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If you use the aluminum pan that comes with the kit, nothing else is really needed. You can spin the pan itself to assure a nice crust all the way around. If you go with the pizza stone, you will need a peel because the stone will have to be preheated. Also, there are some special tongs used to turn the pizza itself since rotating the stone is really hard. There isn't much room to through the front opening when using a stone as well.
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The pizza comes out of the pan really easy so we just pop it out and cut it on a flat surface. We use a round roller cutter.
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You can use the plastic lettuce knife which is sharp enough to cut the crust.
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I use a wooden pizza paddle. Well worth it. I roll the dough out on the paddle, then put some corn meal for lubrication under the rolled dough and let it rise for a few minutes. Then shake the dough on the paddle to loosen, place on toppings and bake for 10-12 minutes in a preheated 450 degree oven (stone always remains inside).
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Hey Kara- I own two of these stones because they work great! They are quite heavy though and will stay hot for awhile after cooking. Cutting the pizza on the stone would be fine for the stone (it's quite sturdy), however, this would be hard to do because it's quite hot/heavy. After making my pizzas I use a pizza peel (relatively cheap) and pull the pizza out of the oven. I then cut the pizza on the peel. It would be tough to pull the whole stone out of the oven although it could be done. Hope that helps!
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As with most any non-stick pot or pan, metal utensils are a no-no. Once you've baked the pizza, transfer to your stone or cutting board to slice it up. I built a wood fired brick pizza oven in the back yard, and the dough is really flimsy and sticky, making the non-stick pan a must for sliding the pizza off into the brick oven. HTH,Mike
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I line the pan with parchment paper and when it is time to bake the pizza I slide the whole thing off onto a pizza stone and bake it. When it's bubbling I slide it back onto the pan and then off again to slice with a pizza cutter. (that way I don't mess up the pan and get a great pizza shape and browned crust)
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I think the food gets crisper if you don't use a tray underneath, but it would be dufficult to remove it from the oven with something like french fries. I think you could use it alone with pizza. You just need a wide flat spatula tool to remove it to support it underneath. However, it seems to me that you could just put the pizza directly on the rack and get great results without this sheet.