How To: Prepare a Pizza Pan

Proper preparation of your pizza pan will make a huge difference in the outcome of you homemade pizza.

Dough will stick to a metal pan, even when cooked, creating a hard to slice and remove pizza, and also a mess that is niether easy or fun to clean up.

To avoid this you can do one of two things:

1: spread a layer of cornmeal or semolina flour on the pan to act as a separator between the dough and the pan.

This method works well, though many people dont like the grainy cornmeal on the bottom of their pizza.

2: spread a thin layer of olive oil on the pan.

This acts as a lubricant for the pizza, and the hot oil will also help cook the bottom of the crust.

Option 2 is generally more effective, but less healthy.

 -James