Comparing #1570 (version 11) and #1575 (version 12)

Ingredients

• Store-bought dough (1 pound)
• Crushed tomatoes (135g)
• Mozzarella (part skim, shredded, 130g)

Then, for garnish:

• Oregano
• Fresh basil leaves
• 3g of salt

Steps

1. Preheat oven for 1 hour. Ends up somewhere around 450°F.
2. Preheat pizza steel for 30 min on top rack underneath broiler, reaches about 630°F.
3. Rest dough until it reaches room temperature.
4. Add salt to the tomato sauce.
5. Grate cheese.
6. Stretch the dough.
7. Dust peel with flour.
8. Remove excess flour from dough.
9. Place dough on peel.
10. Place dough on steel; still on top rack.
11. Bake for 2 minutes.
12. Take out and add sauce and cheese.
13. Bake for another 1.5 minutes.

Results:

• Top: https://drive.proton.me/urls/F39AZW3SW8#Z91hQA29jWxV
• Bottom: https://drive.proton.me/urls/Y8VXB0M114#zkTrWfPfo7wc

I’ve made pizza almost every day since the last revision (around 16 pizzas). I’ve gotten pretty good at it.

Ingredients

• Store-bought dough (312g)
• Tomato sauce (90g)
• Mozzarella (part skim, home-shredded, 100g)
• 2g extra virgin olive oil

Then, for garnish:

• Oregano
• Fresh basil leaves
• A dash of salt

Steps

1. Preheat oven for 1 hour. Ends up somewhere around 450°F.
2. Preheat pizza steel for 30 min on top rack underneath broiler, reaches about 650°F.
3. In the meantime, rest dough on counter top until it reaches room temperature.
4. Grate cheese and measure tomato sauce.
5. Stretch the dough.
6. Dust peel with flour.
7. Remove excess flour from dough.
8. Place dough on peel.
9. Add tomato sauce.
10. Place dough on steel; still on top rack with the broiler still on.
11. Bake for 2 minutes.
12. Take out to add oregano and cheese.
13. Bake for another minute on top rack; again, the broiler is still on.
14. Take out steel and let pizza rest on steel for another minute to make the bottom crispy.
15. In the meantime, apply small amount of olive oil to the outer crust and sprinkle salt on outer crust.
16. Remove from steel and serve.