When you become interested in cooking, it’s only a matter of time until you try and make your creations more authentic.
This could be seeking out better quality spices or growing your own herbs. It could also be looking for authentic equipment to develop your cooking techniques like a wok, pasta roller or a pizza stone.
If you’re looking to expand your cooking skills, pizzas are a great place to start. They are simple to make, easily adapted to suit people’s tastes and damn tasty! The Pizza stone (or baking stone) developed to become a great way to make crispy and light pizzas and bread.
The downside of pizza stones is that they are prone to breakages. Putting a hot stone under cold water will often crack it, and dropping one can easily result in a break.
Pizza Steel
Luckily, there’s an alternative in a Pizza Steel. The principal is exactly the same. Instead of the breakable stone, however, you’re dealing with a specialised, durable piece of steel.
Here’s how I got on with unboxing and preparing the Pizza Steel:
(Note – there are actually two Combi Peels in the video. I didn’t separate them properly. Doh!)
We then made some pizza bases from scratch, and also made the pizza topping ourselves.
With the pizza dough, I’d taken shortcuts in the past. This time, I decided to do the kneading for the full ten minutes.
The kids helped with making their own pizzas.
Hold on. I used the word ‘authentic’ but there’s cheddar all over the topping? Well, I also said a great thing about pizza is that they’re easily adaptable to suit people’s tastes, and I *love* the taste of melted cheddar. Lasagna, macaroni cheese, burritos, enchiladas. Drool.
The Pizza Steel had been in for over an hour, and the oven was on a very hot setting, so we whacked in the pizzas for 10 – 12 minutes. The results were brilliant!
It’s simply the best tasting pizza that I’ve ever made. There are a distinct lack of photos because every was too busy chowing down on their dinners. I guess you can’t get a better compliment on cooking than that!
On it’s own, the Pizza Steel is £58, but there is an offer on just now where you can get the Steel, TWO Combi Peels (prep shelves) and the dough cutter for just £67.80!
Clearly, I’m delighted with the Pizza Steel, and I’ll be using it for more pizzas, bread and rolls. Crunchy!
Giveaway
Guess what? One lucky guy or gal is going to win the Pizza Steel set detailed above! Simply enter via the widget below and you could be the lucky, randomly picked winner. Closing date is Saturday 11th March at midnight. Good luck!
Terms and Conditions
1. Closing date is 11 March 2017 at midnight.
2. The prize is a Pizza Steel Set as described in the review.
3. Entrants must be 18 or over and reside in the UK.
4. No cash alternative.
5. The winner will be picked from all valid entries at random.
6. Don’t use multiple email address to enter the competition. Entries suspected of cheating will be invalidated.
7. The winner will be contacted within 7 days of the draw date. They will be notified and will have 7 days to respond. In the event that no response is received, a further winner will be drawn and so on.
Hawaiian!
What is your favourite pizza topping? . . . .l’m old fashioned . . . l like cheese just plenty of cheese
Garlic mushrooms, extra cheese
chicken,cheese,
tracynixon1975@gmail.comBBQ chicken!
Smoked salmon & sour cream – although fish/seafood is just wrong on any other pizza
Mixed Peppers :- Green, yellow and red.
my favourite is quatro formaggi
meat feast
double mushrooms
chorizo
Cheese
pepperoni and cheese x
Ham, cheese, tomato, mushroom and pineapple.
Ham and pineapple
Pepperoni
Mushrooms, red onions and sweet roquito peppers
Tomatoes
I love ham on my pizzas!
Ham and Mushrooms
Ham and mushrooms
Ooh i love mushrooms, pineapple, Tuna and jalapeño…but im weird ha ha. Fab giveaway. Would love to be your lucky winner. Fingers crossed x
ham and pineapple x
Chicken and bacon.
chillies and pepperoni
Meat feast
Farm house
Tuna and chilli
tuna and onion x
Meat Feast is my favourite!
Egg, ham, mushroom & spinach
Has to be pineapple
favourite has got to be cheese, tomatoes, red onion and peppers
Mine is a bit of a strange one. I love a good quality vegetable pizza, but then I add some diced bacon. It’s delicious 😀
roasted vegetables & extra red onion
Ham and pineapple with lots of mozzarella YUM!
Tomato and basil.
Spicy meats like pepperoni or chilli beef
Ham and mushroom.
Pepperoni with extra cheese
Meat feast with caramelised onions
I love chorizo on my pizzas! & plenty of cheese!
Pepperoni and jalapeños on BBQ sauce 🙂
Ham and pineapple is my favourite, thanks.x
I use a pair of scissors to cut pizza so would love this
Oh and mushroom with extra mushroom is my favourite!
Pepperoni
Just cheesy is great!
ham, pepperoni and jalpenos, hotter the better
How cheesey!
Lots of meat and cheese with added chilli is good for me! 🙂
tuna, mushrooms and sweetcorn
Mushrooms, adore mushrooms on everything
Spinach and poached egg with mozzerella
Ham and Pineapple is my favourite
Love ham and pineapple x
Chicken and Mushroom
Jalepino peppers and chorizo … Yum!
Cheese and Pepperoni
Sausage, green and red peppers, green chillies, ground beef, ham, Jalapeno peppers, pepperoni, pork meatballs and red onions.
Mushroom, chicken and bacon
I love sliced sausage, mushrooms and onions with hallumi
Pepperoni, the more the better!
Cheese Pineapple & mushrooms
Cheese and garlic, extra garlic please
Pepperoni, cheese, mushrooms & mixed peppers
Meat Feast!
Ham and Pineapple
My favorite toppings are mushrooms and onions.
pepperoni is my fav
my favourite pizza topping is bolognese 🙂
anchovies & black olives
Has to be pineapple and pepperoni
Mushrooms peppers sweetcorn and cheese
Seafood topping
Meat feast
It’s mushroom and chicken topping for me.
Ham, cheese, pineapple and red onion
Double Cheese Pepperoni
Hawaiian!
I’m vegetarian so I’ll have to say cheese, I do love olives though
meat feast
BBQ chicken
Pepperoni
Mushrooms and olives (and cheese … lots of cheese!)
Olive mushroom and sweetcorn
ham and mushroom, peppers and onion x
I love cheese, Onion and mushroom ????. My favourite!
Pepperoni and anchovies.
spicy beef and jalepinos
extra cheese, pepperoni, sweetcorn and jalopenos
I love cheese, tomato, chicken and sweetcorn.
meat feast
meat feast
Veggie in our house, which is great because nothing beats a classic margerita.
Pulled chicken and chilli
mushrooms and crispy bacon
Steak ragu pizza it’s lush x
My favorite is Chicken, Pinapple, Pepperoni, Red Onion and Tomato 🙂
chicken and mushroom
Feta and roasted veg
Olives, onions and mushrooms
Classic pepperoni – some good pepperoni with a kick and a tasty base with a nice mix of herbs and a healthy dose of garlic. Fancy toppings are nice but a well-made base is the killer for good pizza.
Chicken, onions, sweetcorn and peppers
Pepperoni and Cheese
Anything with mushroom!
Pepperoni, peppers and cheese
Pepperoni.
Ham and pineapple with lots of cheese
I love red onion and sweetcorn on my pizza 🙂
pepperoni
I adore Mexicano I love hot pizzas with jelapenos
Smoked Ham & Tomato’s
ham, mushroom and pineapple
ham cheese onion and tomato delicious
Anchovies, sweetcorn and chillis
I love sweet chilli chicken with red peppers, sweetcorn and mushrooms!
Pepperoni with extra cheese
chicken and sweetcorn yummy
Pepperoni
Hawaiian
I like tuna, jalapenos & mushrooms on my pizza
Chicken, Frankfurter Sausage, Peppers and Ham.
Meat feast with extra chilli
Pepperoni.
Double cheee burger
I love fiorentina with an egg in the middle!
My favourite pizza topping is probably mushrooms. Followed closely by black olives.
Olives
sweetcorn
Four cheese and sun dried tomatoes does it for me every time.
Farmhouse with added sweetcorn
I love mushroom, sweetcorn, pineapple, olives and peppers. The usual veggie options in restaurants are always so dull so I always ask to design my own. So much easier to make at home.
Pepperoni is my fave, but to be honest anything goes !! (practically) LOL
anything with goats cheese or blue cheese will do me
Jerk Chicken is awesome x
I love making my own – that way I get what I feel like eating. At a local restaurant they let you choose different toppings so this is amazing as you can try new things.
I particularly love chicken, mushroom and spinach.
Pepperoni
Veggie yummmmmy
super supreme minus the olives plus chicken and pineapple
Mozzarella and pepperoni
Pepperoni and jalapeno 🙂
meat and spicy
Everyone else in the family are into pepperoni but I love spinach and feta cheese on mine.
American Hot spicy
Hawaiian
chicken, sweetcorn, peppers & mushrooms
Cheese and Tomato (plain but LUSH)
Ham, Pineapple and sweetcorn
Feta and Spinach
pepperoni and those sweet spicy little red chillis!
pinapple onion mushrooms and peppers x
Mine is mushroom.
Cheese & onion!
Pepperoni, chorizo and habanero chillies
Pepperami, chillies and anchovies. Fantastic prize, thank you so much x
Spicey vegetarian pizza
Cheese, Ham and Bacon
Prosciutto & mushroom.