need pizza help

ChefAl · January 2010

Did my 2nd pizza cook today and both times the end results were good. BUT both times the pizza was very sticky and hard to get onto the stone. What am I doing wrong?

I am using plenty of flour and corn meal when making it and once it stuck to the granite counter and the other time it stuck to the metal pizza peel. Suggestions?

Bash · January 2010

Al,

I had problems too. Someone suggested building the pizza on parchment paper. Your peel will slide right under the paper, and the paper slides right on the stone. After the cook, it comes right back on the peel, and on to the counter.

Never had problems since then. (Well, I have had issues with getting crust too done or not done enough - pizza is one of the harder cooks for me to get perfect. I enjoy trying, anyway.)

Richard

Hoss · January 2010

Cover the peel witn a liberal amount of flour/cornmeal before placing the dough on it or use parchment paper.

Frank from Houma · January 2010

Try this

Put some parchment paper on your peel
Build the za on the paper
Trim the paper within about an inch
Slide the za and parchment paper on to the stone
Take it off and slice on the peel
Works great - neaux corn meal on your za

Gumbo za

Breakfast za

Hoss · January 2010

You no lika da meal??? I put the cornmeal on the Parchment paper. :laugh:

Frank from Houma · January 2010

neaux meal here

Meaty Boy · January 2010

If you build it on parchment, will the stone still absorb the moisture from the dough and make it crispy?

Hoss · January 2010

yep

RU Eggsperienced · January 2010

I have a super pizza peel Super Peel Check out the videos on the site. This thing is cool.

I've found that this works really well with wetter doughs... I still use it on other types but it really earns its keep when I have the stickier dough. As mentioned earlier a little flour definitely helps in handling dough.

FatMike · January 2010

A metal peel is for pulling finished pizza's..the make peels are always wood and will work much better with the corn meal..

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