Baking With The Pizza Screen

My work partner gave me a pizza screen a few weeks ago and I brought it home, but never got to the store that sells pizza dough. So it sat here, for a few weeks, big, round and lonely. On Saturday, I finally got some pizza dough at Trader Joe's (if you have a store near you, they make great pizza dough!) and tonight I decided to make a pizza and take the screen out for a spin.

I have owned a pizza stone for 2 decades and besides having to heat the thing in a very hot oven for half an hour, it gets messy and it's tough to clean. You have to leave it in the oven to cool completely, before you can deal with it, or else it will crack.
So I was looking forward to pizza, with ease of cleaning and that's exactly what I got.

The screen goes into the oven, fully loaded with dough and sauce and toppings. You cook it for about 10 or 15 minutes (I had the oven at 400 degrees) and then place the cheese on it and take it out when the cheese is melted and the dough is done. I let it cool on the screen for a few minutes and then placed it on another surface, for cutting. A few seconds later, the screen was back to room temperature and ready to clean.

I am totally impressed with this product and look forward to an occasional custom home baked pizza in my life again.



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Photo:
Pizza on the right
and the cleaned
screen on the left.