/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18528791
Pizza stones are not made for frozen pizza. They are useful for fresh pizza, but not necessary

>>18528794
99% of the pizzas people eat are frozen and it's supposed to be some kind of non-frozen pizza tool? They're allowed to sell it with a name like "pizza stone" still? Ridiculous

>>18528795
>99% of the pizzas people eat are frozen

Lol I make pizza at least once a week and have had a frozen one in over 15 years at least. No, the people who buy pizza stones use them for making fresh pizza and there are tons of people like that.

Maybe this is your chance to get into making your own, it's super easy. Even if you don't make the dough yourself, most grocery stores sell it.

>>18528791
a stone absorbs heat and then gets hotter than the ambient temperature in the oven and radiates it hotter on the base than normal. Which is good but you can buy any a tile sample etc too do a similar thing.

>Every frozen pizza says to put the pizza directly on the rack, so am I better off just not having the stone?
That doesn't mean you have to follow them. Frozen pizzas actually do come out a lot better if you thaw them and cook on a stone at high heat.

>>18528791

No trick to it. I like using my pizza stone because it makes the bottom crispy throughout and helps me flex on the carb-averse (aka pussies)

>>18528795
There's a ton of household out there that regularly make their own homemade pizzas and I'm one of them. Cheaper, exactly to my liking, and 1000x better.

With that said I don't use a pizza stone...have a pizza oven outdoors that I made with my sons.

The stone evenly distributes heat so the entire bottom of the pizza cooks at a roughly even rate. Not really as much of a concern with a pre-cooked frozen pizza of questionable quality - you can polish a turd but it's still shit.

>>18528826
>>18528826
>>18528826
Finally somebody speaking sense. Let the frozen pizza thaw for an hour while your stone (or steel, if you like) preheats at 500F, then cook it 10 minutes or so like any other pizza.

I used a pizza stone twice, both times, despite coating the fuckin thing in flour, the dough got completely fused to the stone. The second time that happened I karate chopped the stone in half and threw it into the woods behind my house.

When I make pizza I crisp the base in a frying pan with some oil first, then put it in the oven on racks. Comes out perfect every time

>>18528795
LMAO

tell me you have the eating habits of a 6 year old without telling me you frozen pizza bitch

the pizza gods are in your thread now. we make our own dough. we look down at you with disgust

>>18530101
The way I used to do it, I'd put the pizza on parchment paper and then put that on the stone. It peels right off when it cools

>>18530101
you didn’t heat up the stone first

>>18528791
>Every frozen pizza says to put the pizza directly on the rack
they also tell you to cook it before eating. i take it you should go with your gut.

>>18528816
> invite girl over for dinner date
> idea.exe
> let’s make pizza
> get it ready for the oven
> open the oven door
> “uh anon there’s a weird brick in here”
> oh yea that’s my Tile Sample, it makes great pizza and is much cheaper than those $40 pizza stones

>>18528795
stop being lazy? 99% of people also don't own pizza stones. you can buy ready made pizza dough that has already been proofed for a day at the grocery store deli. it's even cheaper than frozen trash to make your own and it takes all of 2 minutes to stretch a pie and top it

>>18530119
I have a quarter inch plate of steel I just throw in the oven. stones are for tossers. only annoying thing is you have to preheat the oven for like 45 minutes

>>18530109
you can do that or you can also just learn to coat the dough with extra flour and give it a quick slap to remove the excess. they don't exactly hire the best and brights at pizza places. you have to be a complete dumbass not to be able to figure out how to make a fucking pizza

>>18528800
>have had a frozen one in over 15 years at least.
IT TOOK YOU THAT LONG TO EAT A FROZEN PIZZA????

Every time I see a pizza stone I think of my ex girlfriend. She said she made great pizza and invited me over to make pizza. We were making the dough and everything was fine but when she went to preheat the oven, she says something like "yeah I have this pizza stone too, it's gonna be great" and takes the stone OUT of the oven.

I asked why she took it out and she explained that you put the pizza on the stone, then in the oven together. This is where the dilemma comes. Now, I've never made a pizza up until this point, save for frozen pizzas, but I've been on /ck/ and consuming cooking content on YouTube for years. I knew damn well that this bitch should have left the stone to preheat in the oven. I suggested this and she was adamant that she knew what she was doing. I wasn't dating or even fucking her yet at that point, so I let her think she was right.

That pizza was shit, and so were the next two years. Fuck you Lyndsey

>>18530119
If she looks down on you for your Tile Sample, she ain't wife material.

>>18530145
I don't know about the living in Australia part but Bluey perfectly encapsulates the interactions between dads with young kids dynamic

>>18528791
The fuck you talking about? Every frozen pizza comes with a cheapass stone unless you buy 3rd world poverty tier shit like tostinos

>>18528826
>Be discussing pizza
>Immediately relate it to entertaining tits

Simps gonna simp

>>18530106

>>18528795

>>18528795
A fool and his money are easily parted, you bought a random thing for no reason.
Just use it.

>>18530188
base
I fear the day when it will fall on my foot and I will be in a wheelchair forever

>>18530188
>>18531488
double checked
I mean based

>>18528791
>frozen pizza
Why not use a pan to heat it? It's going to be shit anyway.

>>18531488
oh shit nice digits HH. I do worry about dropping it on my foot a lot and even if I missed my foot it's going to put a fucking hole in the floor

>>18531496
Kek

>>18528791
Unhealthy.

>>18528795
der murican

I just put aluminum foil on a pizza pan with some non-stick spray and have at it. Simple.

>eating frozen pizzas
ISHYGDDT

>>18530309
To be fair, we have others just as dumb in this very thread.

>>18530037
>>18530101

The heat of the stone cooks the pizza

>>18528795
>Ridiculous
Yes, your post is ridiculous.

>>18530101
Corn meal my man

>>18530101
>>18532932
This. Cover the stone in corn meal

>>18530145
Bluey is based and I'm not a bald bearded numale making a :O face when I say that

>>18528826
>cook a thawed pizza in a maxed out oven on a pizza stone that has been preheating for 30+ minutes at 500f
>for 10 (TEN) minutes
enjoy your charcoal jesus christ

>>18528791
Wait what, putting it on the rack instead of a tray seems like a good way to make a mess in the oven, maybe not so much at first but over times bits are gonna drip down

ive used a pizza stone a lot at gas mark 9 (475F/246c) top shelf and even when letting it pre heat for 2hrs or so the base is never as crispy as id like.
Would a steel be better? Or is my oven just not hot enough?

>>18534267
hotter oven is option, but here's a black magic trick:
parbake the crust.
just put the crust straight into oven first, you'll have to play with the times until you get it how you want it. keep notes.
take it out, sauce and cheese and toppings, then put it back in.
now your crust has extra "cooking time" and will get crispier before the point where your toppings burn.

>>18534278
Sadly thats as hot as my oven can get, I might try that but I am worried the edges will be over done.

>>18528791
>>18528795
I think buying a specialty tool thinking it was for preparing frozen processed food is peak /ck/, congrats OP