If you put the Baking Steel in your oven, crank it up all the way to 500 F, preheat for an hour, and then cook your pizza on it, you’ll never go back to making pizza any other way.

And a baking steel is a thick piece of steel that conducts the heat of your oven, transferring that heat to whatever you put on it (like a pizza or a pie plate).

What’s a baking (or pizza) stone? A pizza stone is a plank or circle of ceramic or cordierite (a type of thermal shock-resistant ceramic). They’re typically between a half-inch to three ...

For around $100, a baking steel helps you bake pizzas with crispy, dark-spotted bottom crusts and chewy, puffed edges. But using it takes practice, and you have to work with your oven’s quirks ...

The Story Behind Italy’s Most Iconic PizzaPizza Margherita isn’t just a dish—it’s a legend born in Naples. Named after Queen Margherita of Savoy in the 19th century, this pizza was created to ...

Lagsdin, who founded Baking Steel in 2012, has started to hold tasting events like these as well as classes in his barn kitchen, located behind the farmhouse he shares with wife Leslie and ...

You don't need a fancy schmancy pizza oven.I’ve asked around and many pizza pros, including Andris Lagsdin of Baking Steel, a highly popular pizza steel brand, recommend setting the oven to at ...

The pizza was actually cooked in a Thermador range, but it was set on Lagsdin’s invention, something called the Baking Steel, a hulking, 15-pound, preseasoned solid sheet of steel.

But I figure nothing, no how, no way, is going to damage my newest pizza “stone.” It’s a 15-pound, almost 1/2-inch-thick sheet of solid steel called, appropriately enough, Baking Steel.