Basically when I make pizzas at home the bases always seem to stay too soft. Just wondering if anyone knows a dough recipe and a method of cooking to get pizza bases to come out right. I am limited to either an electric fan assisted oven or a small electric non fan assisted oven.

Thanks

we've been using pizza stone here and the crust is always crispy

idk where to buy those though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_stone

Pizza stone is definitely the way to go. You can get them at any cooking store and even at places like Target these days. Also, make sure your oven is hot (~450), and let the pizza stone get hot before you put the pizza in. You want to use a pizza peel to put the pizza onto the hot stone. Putting some four and cornmeal under the pizza when you place it on the peel lets it slide off onto the stone easily with a little flick of the wrist. The corn meal is key.

you heat the stone before you cook it?

makes sense but we dont do that

seems complicated and putting both at the same time gave us good results

the stones are designed to be preheated before use > better results

Actually the whole idea is to heat the stone to let it sort of act like the bottom of a real pizza oven. When the stone is hot it really crisps the pizza up. Of course, it is more difficult to get the pizza on it, so that's why you need the peel.

I love Alton Brown's pizza dough recipe... Really good texture... be sure to respect the recipe ...

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/pizza-pizzas-recipe4/index.html

And as noted in the recipe, cut the salt in half, because Alton is using a coarse salt (less salt per volume)

I use that one, too. Works well even at altitude.

yeah pizza stone is key i cook pizza every day for hundreds of people. we just put flour on peel after u stretch it out. top the pizza. and blow a little air under the dough then slide it in the oven.
after its on stone try to make sure it round by moving some of the dough.

for dough we use 50lbs of flour per so i dont know a small patch but yeast, sugar, salt, flour, water.
also can try brown sugar if u want

This post was edited by AriG0Ld on Aug 3 2011 10:21pm

What is the "peel" people keep talking about? never heard that term before.

Thanks