Pizza Recipes & Ideas

Item: The Baking SteelPrice: $72Overall Impression: Fantastic and durable pizza accessory, one that will help your pizza cook much faster and give it a deliciously chewy, blistered crust. Do you use a pizza stone? Putting a heavy stone in your oven helps stabilize its temperature, retain its heat, and transfer it more efficiently and directly to your pizza. I had a pizza stone a long time ago, but broke it rather promptly, and ever since then I’ve baked my pizzas directly on an oven rack.

Get your gift lists out, people, because we’re about to share a top contender for next year’s holiday wishlists. It goes like this: Wood-fired pizza, made at home, in your own pizza oven. And no, you didn’t have to build it in your backyard. In fact, this pizza oven is about the size of a carry-on suitcase (only much flatter), weighs 15 lbs, and makes crispy, blackened wood-smoked pizza in 3 minutes. Say hello to Uuni.

Here at Kitchn, we’ve used a lot of pizza cutters over the years. And guess what? It’s amazing how bad some can be! Some aren’t sharp enough to cut through crust, some have wheels so small that your hand ends up knuckles deep in hot bubbling cheese and sauce, and some are impossible to clean. We’ve found a couple favorites, though — and this OXO Good Grips Pizza Wheel and Cutter, which happens to be on sale right now, is one of them.

Not to be dramatic or anything, but a good pizza cutter can seriously be life-changing. If you make your own pizza at home, you definitely need a good pizza cutter. (No matter how good your favorite chef’s knife is, it’s never going to cut gooey cheese and chewy crust without mangling everything in its wake.) And even if you tend to stick to take-out from your favorite pizza joint, you almost always need a good tool to finish separating the last little bit of each slice.

Ah, pizza. The universal language. It’s an easy, fast, and unanimously beloved way to end the day. While you can get a hot, fresh pie delivered to your door with a few taps on your phone, it can be even more fun (not to mention delicious) to make it at home. And before you say that it never turns out as well as one that you order from your favorite pizza place, we can help with that! We asked some experts for their must-haves for the best at-home pizza experience.

If the title of this post sounds a little all-inclusive to you, it’s supposed to. Because it’s aimed at all of us who have ever made pizza from scratch, used a ready-to-bake crust, heated up a frozen pizza, or bought a pie for takeout or delivery. That’s every single one of us, right? Okay, but what’s this thing that we all need? Kitchen shears! And not just any kitchen shears: these Wüsthof Kitchen Shears.