Preheat Oven:
- If able, adjust your oven +35 degrees
- Place steel in the middle of your oven
- Preheat oven to 550F Convection Bake if possible, otherwise Bake will do
- Once oven comes to temperature, allow to preheat for 1 hour
Shape:
- Dust a pizza peel with flour (all-purpose is fine) and evenly smooth it over with your hand, brushing excess onto the counter.
- Dust the top of the dough ball with flour and flip it upside down onto your counter (the top of the dough ball is now on the counter).
- Sprinkle flour over the top of the dough and, cupping your hands around the sides of the dough, rotate it a few times to ensure it forms a circle.
- Using your fingers, press into the edges of the dough ball, establishing a rim. Then press from the middle out while avoiding making it too thin and pop any large bubbles that develop at the rim.
- Feel free to lightly dust the top of the pizza with flour if it feels tacky as you open it up.
- Rotate the pizza 90 degrees and repeat the process.
- Rotate again and repeat.
- Flip the pizza over and do the same to the other side, doing your best to establish a rim, press gases to the edge, all while not thinning out the middle and popping any large bubbles that may appear.
- Flip the pizza back over so the original top of the dough ball is back to being the bottom of the pizza.
- Do a few edge stretches and then pick it up and toss it back back and forth between the back of your hands, allowing it to slightly stretch at the rim and knock excess flour off
- Next, using your knuckles along the rim of the pizza dough, stretch the dough and rotate it to form a disk approximately 13”-14” in diameter.
- Place the pizza down on the floured peel, ensuring the original top of the dough ball is the bottom of the pizza.
- Top your pizza according to preference
- Pull at the rim to stretch it one last time, doing your best to keep or make it a circle. Pop any bubbles that appear in the rim.
Bake:
- Launch pizza after the 1 hour preheat - target steel temperature should be approximately 625F
- After 2 minutes turn the oven Broiler on Hi
- Remove the pizza with a metal peel after a 4 to 5 minute total bake depending on the capabilities of your oven and preference of doneness
- Place pizza on a cooling rack for 1 minute
- Slice, serve, and enjoy!
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