Channel 5’sSecrets of the Fast Food Giants on Thursday night (September 2) TV host Alexis Conran says the typical fan oven setting is completely wrong for cooking pizza.
The dough and topping turn out better if cooked under the grill and, to make the dough really crisp underneath, you need a "secret weapon".Alexis then held up a baking steel which he said was "really heavy" and absorbed heat until it was "extremely hot".Baking steel is not the same thing as a pizza stone, which takes longer to heat up.He said: "What you do is you put this in your oven, wack it up to your top temperature [grill] in your high shelf, and what happens is that is so hot it cooks your base."It's what you like, doughy, and gave the dough a time to rise because it.
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