Pretty Simple Pizza

Step 6 Bake

Now that the oven is hot take out the wire mesh thingy and carefully pull the baking paper with the pizza over it without getting burned.

Put the pizza in the oven pretty low in the oven - it needs to get most of the heat from below to bake properly.

As soon as the pizza can support itself and not stick to the oven rack pull out the paper. The paper interferes with the baking and it's only purpose is to make sure you can remove the pizza from the oven. This shouldn't be more than 4-5 minutes into the baking. You can then start spreading the second pizza on the newly vacant sheet.

After two more minutes or so take out the pizza and put the cheese on. I forgot to take a picture of this, but I do this right after the photo where I first show the bottom crust.

Let it keep baking till the bottom part is pretty dark (but not burnt at all). The cheese should be bubbly and even slightly browned.

If you are putting green toppings (lettuce, salad greens, etc) on this is the time - let them bake for no more than a minute.

The whole baking process shouldn't take more than 12-15 minutes.


P.S. You really ought to use a stone, so I'm told... I don't have one, but I'm trying to get someone to add instructions as a comment ;-)