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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The full steel system and all the accessories are now available for 26% off. For $199, your dad’s dream of opening a pizza shop could very well become a reality.

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.

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 ...

Three students have designed their own baking tray so their chips will cook as well as they do back home. They found the cooker in their student digs was producing unappetising soggy pizza and chips.

Unlike the fussy pizza stone, a pizza steel is robust and relatively indestructible. Water doesn’t get trapped inside, as it’s not porous, and it doesn’t give a damn about temperature shifts.