Use the PIE/413 method to get the best and consistent results when cooking homemade Pizzas in a Home Oven. This article will walk you through the best method for how to cook Pizza in a home oven. Producing a good browned skin formation, charred crust color and rise with browning spots of Cheese. It makes for a beautiful looking pizza that will have everyone thinking you ordered out.I created the 413 method for cooking PIE at home in an oven so that I could have unmatched results with homemade pizza. It's a superior technique, producing better results for Homemade Pizzas done in a home oven. Whether you use the Classic Hand Tossed, the Overnight Pizza Dough, this by far is the best technique, producing a pizza cook that will Make Your Belly Smile. Even if you're cooking Calzones, Garlic Fingers, or Twisty Bread. This method will produce the best results every time.
Servings: 1 Pizza
Equipment
- 1 Pizza Stone
- 1 Pizza Screen
Ingredients
Instructions
- Position the oven rack in middle position and the other rack in bottom position, with a pizza stone in place on the bottom rack. Preheat the oven to the highest setting it will go, usually 500 F to 550 F. Let it preheat for 1 hour.
- 4 Minute Cook: Prepare the Pizza Dough and transfer to a Pizza Screen or Pan. Assemble the Pizza and transfer to the oven to cook for precisely 4 minutes in the middle rack position.
- 1 Adjustment: At the 4-minute mark (3 minutes of cook time remaining), immediately place the oven on broil. Remove the Pizza from the Screen or Pan to come in direct contact with the pizza stone on the bottom rack position. Flip it around so that the front is now facing the back.
- 3 Minute Broil: Broil for 3 minutes. Immediately take the oven off of Broil and back on to the highest setting. Then transfer the Pizza back to the Pizza Screen or Pan and remove. Slice the pizza and set aside or serve. Repeat for each Pizza.
- In the event that you catch the oven at its lowest heat, which can happen from time to time (you will find the pizza doesn't brown as much). Set the oven off of broil and back to the highest oven temp. Transfer the Pizza back to the Pizza screen and place in the middle rack position until browned to your liking, about another minute or so.
Notes
Pizza not browning: Sometimes you can place the pizza into the oven while it's at its lowest heat and since an oven lags in heating up, this will cause the pizza to not brown as fast. The opposite is true too, sometimes you can catch it when it’s at its highest, which will result in burn spots. This is perfectly fine and may be desirable. However, not browning enough, is not. Just follow the last step in the instructions above, should your pizza not be browned enough.
Calzones: Cooking Calzones, follow the same steps.
Garlic Fingers: Cooking Garlic Fingers, follow the same steps.
Twisty Bread: Cooking Twisty Bread, a pizza stone is not needed and stay in the middle rack position. Still cook for 4 minutes, 1 adjustment by flipping the breadsticks over with tongs, no broiling. Cook a final 3 minutes, still at the highest oven temp.