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Queen Of Quite A Lot
January 10, 2020
Finally We Have Crispy Crusts and Perfectly Cooked Middles!
My daughter and I love making 6" - 8" homemade personal pan pizzas using homemade dough, but weren't happy with the middle of our pizzas sometimes staying doughy or undercooked. Most people use a traditional pizza stone for this, since residential ovens do not get hot enough like a commercial pizza oven would. However, both our pizzas would not fit on a stone and our oven is not big enough for two stones (we like to watch movies on pizza night and need them to be done at the same time). Enter the pizza screen.... not only are they super affordable, sturdy, and well made, but we have perfect crispy crusts every time. Sometimes I will pre-bake the dough for 5 mins at 450*F before adding toppings for even more crunch, but it's not really necessary. The screens are fairly easy to clean. Once in awhile cheese will drip onto the metal mesh and burn/harden. If that happens, I'll pour a bit of full-strength dish soap on the spots and let them sit in the sink for about a half hour, and it usually comes right off without having to scrub. They are aluminum, so if you put them in your dishwasher they will slightly discolor with time, but it doesn't affect their use. Also, they include the outer rim as part of the overall measurement, so make sure you get them a little bigger to accomodate the size pizzas you are making. (Its hard getting them out of the oven without an edge to grab onto with the potholder. We don't have a pizza paddle.) If you like making small personal pizzas or just need a crispier crust, give these a try.
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hillingdoner
August 26, 2024
Work well for making pizza
I have a couple of similar screens I used in my regular oven to make pizza.I have since purchased a Breville Smart Oven Pro and wanted to make fresh pizza in it. These fit perfectly and work well.Here is my process (same as I used in my regular oven). I would make my dough and when I was ready, I would take some parchment paper and divide the dough between two sheets. I made a little less dough than I usually would for my 16" screens due to the smaller size of these screens.I took these screens and trimmed my parchment to be slightly bigger around than the screens. I then put the screens under the parchment and pushed my dough out until it was the same size as the screen. Then I did my toppings on and got the Smart oven up to temp. Cooked my pizzas at 480 for 14 minutes with fan on the marked pizza level in the oven. I used a regular baking tray to slide them in and then slide under (when done) the screen to lift out enough I could get with the oven mitt.Worked a treat!!! The advantage to the parchment is that I don't have to worry about the dough sinking and attaching itself to the screen. Plus makes it easier to spread the dough out. The advantage to cooking on the screen is that I get even, great heat to the bottom of the dough that gives me a great crust.I've used pizza stones before. They are fine and I have had some great pizzas off of them, but then I have the extra faff of semolina or flour under the dough to get them to slide, getting them heated enough for first pizza and then recovery for additional pizzas and then the storage and potential breakage of them. These screens make is simple! Just get oven to temp and go. Storage super simple and because I use parchment, zero clean up after. Just throw the parchment away and screens are ready to go or store.Definite good purchase and would recommend!
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Pretty perfect
I have been trying to make a pizzeria style pizza without getting a pizza stone or steel. This pizza pan was all that I needed for near perfect results. I am so happy with this pan! It’s lightweight but sturdy and my pie didn’t stick at all. I would highly recommend this pan!
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Perfect for Cauliflower Crust Pizzas
I've been trying a new diet for the last month to shed some lbs. and one of the go to meals for me has been cauliflower crust pizzas. I tried making them on regular pizza pans but the crusts always came out mushy and I had to eat them with a knife and fork plus the texture wasn't the best (I heard that it was ok if you flipped the crust half way through but I could never get it to work without the crust falling apart). I heard that it was better to make them with pizza pans that were vented so I took a shot with this one.I'm super glad I took a chance on it. This get's the crusts much more firm and a little crispy around the edges. It's very easy to clean and is super lightweight. My only complaint is that it is a little thin so I am worried about its durability. But it's not very expensive so I didn't ding the rating too hard.
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Augustine Ahn
December 28, 2024
Great for Evenly Cooked Pizzas
I’ve been using this pizza baking screen to cook my pizzas, and it’s been a game-changer. It helps keep the bottom from burning while still letting the crust get crispy. I can cook the pizza a little longer without worrying about it getting too dark on the bottom. It’s durable, easy to clean, and does exactly what I need it to do. If you’re tired of unevenly cooked pizzas, this screen is definitely worth trying.
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Best for frozen pizza
These work great, but I found the when using fresh dough the dough gps down into the screen and makes removal difficult
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Not Easy to Clean for Amateurs
This allows cauliflower crust pizzas to cook like a dream, which is hard to find in my opinion - I deal with celiac sprue and that seems to be a common crust ingredient in gluten free pizzas, but it cooks soft on normal pizza trays. Even the ones with holes in them. This screen metal all round, simple construction. The problem I run into is cleaning. I spray beforehand (which I make an unholy disaster doing, no matter how prepared I think I am), but scrubbing the tiny cooked bits of pizza that remain after cooking has come at a cost to me. I tried several dumb things (steel wool pads, scrub brush, etc), all of which resulted in bits of cleaning tool being sanded off by the pizza screen's cross hatched metal. That implies durability though, so it has that going for it. It didn't really feel sturdy when I used it, but it never bent from normal use for me. I only stopped using it due to my struggles in cleaning it.
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