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Pizza Steel Care 101: Cleaning and Seasoning Tips

If you like making pizzas at home, getting a pizza steel is one of the best things you can do for your kitchen. A pizza baking steels are better at transferring heat than a regular pizza stone, which helps you get a crust that is crisp and golden, just like it came out of a professional oven. Serious Eats says that baking stones get hotter and cook pizzas in almost half the time of a stone. This makes them one of the best tools for home bakers who want to make pizza. You need to know how to clean and season your steel properly to keep it in good shape. Important Points A pizza steel makes crusts that are as good...

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Top Mistakes to Avoid When Using Pizza Steel

It has become increasingly popular to make restaurant-style pizza in the comfort of one's home, and pizza steel has become the go-to tool for pizza aficionados. As Serious Eats states, steel transfers heat 18 times more efficiently than a standard pizza stone, creating crisper crusts and quicker cooking time.  Nevertheless, numerous home bakers commit similar errors in using a pizza steel that can influence the outcome. In this post, we'll discuss these mistakes, share tips, and walk you through how to maximize your baking steel. Key Takeaways Pizza steel conducts heat better than stones due to its superior heat conductivity, which is perfect for a crispy crust. Mistakes involve not preheating, improper cleaning, and using the wrong thickness of dough....

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