OCmike wrote:
Do you use a baking stone? Not only do they help make the best pizza, they also even out hot spots in ovens and cook food items more evenly. They usually aren't more than $20 or so.
never heard of them. i didn't want to plunk down a lot of money if i couldn't get things righ with regular aluminum foil. is it an actual stone to be placed on the rack, or a type of metal sheet for cooking?
guess i can look it up online :D thank you for the suggestion though.
oh. well that looks easy enough. i guess can also check to see if they come in square? i don't cook pizza here. we had a pizza maker gotten from a family member who had passed away. great for warming tortillas, but trying to actually cook a homemade pizza? be it from the box or from scratch, forget it. you use what you get in the ways you can, though, and that's cool.
The square or rectangular ones are for baking and the round ones are for pizza. We don't do any kind of fancy pizza on ours, just "cardboard pizza"(Tony's, Totinos, whatever) as we call it or one of those Boboli pre-baked crusts. We've never cared much for the Digiorno-type rising crusts as they tend to have an odd taste...to me anyway.
Anywho, you should be able to find one for $10-$20 or maybe less if you want to venture to WalMart or Target.
So to answer your question, it's an actual stone or ceramic teracotta piece that's placed on the oven rack.
