Do you have to heat it up before use or can i put a frozen pizza on it when it is cold and stick it in a preheated oven?
492907
I don't actually know the answer to your question. I can tell you that I am always heated it simply because I thought it would perform better on the dough
492908
The recommendation is to preheat with the oven and then place the pizza on it. I find that most frozen pizza's cook better without the stone, just place on center rack.
492909
It's best to preheat with oven. Remember to sprinkle corn meal on when preheating. Just lightly cover the stone.
492910
It's best to heat it up at least a half hour before you use it. The stone will be really work at its best. Also if you have a gas stove place the stone on the bottom. If your stove is electric lower the rack to its lowest setting and place the stove there. Your pizza will be nice and crisp.
492911
Spread a lite amount of either flour or ground corn meal down first to keep from sticking
2079892
If using a premade pizza, like from Sam's club, sprinkle the stone evenly with corn meal, then preheat the stone when preheating oven or grill. When temp is reach, put pizza on stone and bake or grill. If making pizza with fresh dough, use a pizza pan, spray with nonstick, bake dough for about 8 minutes. Let dough cool, then put on preheated stone, add toppings and bake or grill.
1519405
My oven can get pretty hot. I usually crank it as high as I can, leaving the pan inside. I use a peel to get the pizza in and out of the oven. I just took a temperature reading from the center of the pan today, and it read 585.3F. The pizza cooked in 6 minutes.
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The one i bought says to preheat at 450 for 15 minutes and slide the pizza on it. My pizza did not want to slide, so next time i will freeze my dough on another pan, put it on the hot stone and then the toppings. I really am pleased with this one. The last one broke due to my putting it on a burner that still had some heat!! My fault. Hope this helps.
1580101
I've touched mine to my pizza steel with my oven at max temp. I think it should be fine to use provided it isn't there for any length of time.
1523848
Hi! The oven is capable of reaching 900F which is higher than what you need even for pizza. Best regards, Eugene.
1383921
Haven't made a pizza from scratch on it, but have baked items at 500 degrees without any problem. Hope that helps. I've had mine for awhile now and use it all the time...still looks like new.
277100
I put some olive oil on it and heat it up in the oven 400 for 15 min. Pre heat stone before putting pizza on it Sprinkle corn meal down first before laying pizza on stone. If your buying ready made dough for TraderJoe's in the baggy, roll the dough ball in flour first then shape it in a circle. Cook your pizza hot (400) and fast .
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I haven't had my oven thru a winter yet, but I would imagine you could, you'd just have to allow additional time for heat up and perhaps even cooking. Currently on medium I cook a pizza in 5-8 minutes depending on how much stuff I put on top, so I would venture to say that cooking on high would be close to the same with temps in that range. We get that low here where I live and it will get tried this winter!
2110910
Yes you can put fries, wings, anything you do in oven you can use the presto without all of the heat
415088
Yes, works just fine. If I use for freezing, I do let it come to room temperature before putting in the oven, but freezing does work.
312163
The stone does come with instructions and also a pizza dough recipe (which I do not use). Basically, this stone will take whatever heat you give it. But, heat it for at least 20 minutes before putting the pizza on it. I usually preheat mine on a hot gas grill which reads 550 degrees for 30 minutes. The pizza is then put on the stone and is usually cooked within 10 minutes featuring a crispy crust. I cooked all kinds of pizzas on the Dough-Joe and I have not gone out for a pizza in over a year. Yes, it's that good. P.S. Do not wash the stone.
1403337
If your oven has a clean mode you can put the pizza stone in and burn the food off. Otherwise just leave it in the oven and it will burn off over time. Do not put any water or cleaning products on your stone because it will cause the stone to expand and contract in the oven and it will crack.
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I agree with Riggolette L. Use like any other pizza stone- you want to have the stones in the oven when you turn the oven on. They need to heat up slowly. They may crack if you put a cold stone in an already hot oven. They are darling little pizza stones.
168123
put the stone in a cold oven, why are you preheating to 500 because of your recipe? No need to preheat to anything other than the degrees your recipe is calling for. Just remember to put the stone in a cold oven. Or it will break.
1309924
Frozen or from scratch? I haven't tried making them from scratch yet. Frozen it takes about the same time as the directions if you preheat the unit before you put them in. It's basically a convection oven and "hotter" or more effectively cooks because of that. They turn out the best if you draw the tray out halfway thru and give them a good toss before they finish cooking.
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I tend to agree with G. Murray about placing a small piece of plastic wrap between the pie and pan, just make sure you remove the plastic from the pie before baking. Sorry I have not used this pan in my freezer either like G. Broughton stated.