How to Use Your Cordierite Pizza Stone?

Using the cordierite pizza stone is almost the same as using any other pizza stone. Although this feature has been strengthened, the cordierite pizza stone falls under the ceramic stone category. Considered as one of the strongest minerals on the planet, the durability and strength of this stone is really its most important feature. So if you are considering buying a pizza stone, and you are up to the task, then you should consider buying this pizza stone. Here, we are going to highlight some of the uses and key maintenance guidelines you need to know when you have a cordierite pizza stone.

Making the Pizza

•    Get your pizza sauces and pizza toppings. Remember there is no limit to the number of toppings you can use. There are different kinds of pizza with different toppings as we all know. The breakfast pizza, veggie pizza, taco pizza and the BLT pizza.

•    Layering the pizza in the right way can change your pizza cooking status from amateur to professional. Do not try to put the cheese down first before the tomatoes and basil, the basil will burn and to tomatoes will shrivel and the cheese will not give you the brown crust you need.

•    The cheese is low in moisture so it is capable of turning brown a little bit quicker. Mozzarella, Fontina and Parmesan are very important pizza cheeses.

Baking the pizza

•    Heating the oven- once again, there is no limit to the amount of heat needed to make a pizza. The hotter the oven the better the pizza turns out. Although normal home oven recommends a temperature between 450 to 500F (250c to 260c).

•    Place the cordierite pizza stone in the oven and heat it with the same recommended degree 450 to 500 degree F. remember the crust needs to be cooked before the toppings burn.

•    Make the pizza dough and position it on a covering sprinkled with a little cornmeal so that it does not get attached. You can casually cover the crust with little olive oil if you prefer that. This aids in creating a golden brown crust instead of a dry dusty outside.

•    After about 5 minutes of baking, check the pizza in the oven. Even though it is quite unlikely for a cordierite pizza stone if some parts are browning faster than other parts you can rotate the pizza. If you wish, you can remove the pizza halfway through the baking and brush a little olive oil on it. This will help darken it.

•    The pizza is completely baked only when the cheese melts and its colour turns golden brown or dark brown. In the pizza dictionary, Colour is the same as flavour. Calmly remove the pizza from the cordierite stone with the peel and let it cool down a bit. If you wish, you can add fresh toppings to it. Then slice with a chef knife or pizza wheel and serve.