No-oven pizza | Jamie Oliver recipes (2024)

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How to cook pizza with no oven? ›

High Heat, Then Medium Heat

Start with cooking the crust by itself on high heat, then flip and reduce the heat to medium. This should be enough to develop golden, toasty spots on both sides without tipping it over into burning. It's fine to peek at the underside with a spatula and adjust the heat up or down as needed.

Homemade deep-pan pizza: Jamie Oliver

We're talking crispy on the outside, spongy in the middle, with just three ingredients for the base – flour, salt, water. For your toppings, be creative, and embrace what's in your fridge and store cupboard – the possibilities are endless.

The simplest and most accessible baking surface you can use for cooking pizza in a home oven is a preheated half sheet pan. While that can work in a pinch, a half sheet pan is so lightweight that it quickly cools down after you place the raw pie on it. It just doesn't have the heat-holding capacity pizza demands.

Around 500°F is the ideal temperature for a metal pan when cooking pizza dough. It's hot enough that your stretched dough will immediately start puffing and bubbling (there's that oven spring you're looking for), but not so hot that it'll burn before it's cooked through.

Start Cooking: Place your frozen pizza pan on the stove on medium to high heat for the first five minutes. Then, shift onto medium to low settings and cook until the cheese has melted and the sides have started to brown. Put the lid on the pizza while it's baking, so the cheese gets enough heat to melt.

As stated earlier, never expose your pizza stone to extreme temperatures. That means not putting a cold stone in a hot oven, placing cold dough on a hot stone or placing a hot stone under running water of any temperature. Doing any of this will cause your stone to break.

Generally, the hotter the oven, the better the pizza will be. The best oven temperature for pizza is between 450 and 500 degrees F (250 to 260 degrees C).

There are many ways to make a pizza oven of different shapes and sizes from materials including clay, concrete and brick. It really will depend on your location, preference and DIY skill level.

Simply place a few slices in a nonstick frying pan, cast-iron or stainless steel skillet on medium heat for a couple of minutes until the bottom is golden-brown and crispy. Next, place two drops of water into the pan, away from the pizza. Reduce the heat to low and cover the pan for a minute.