There’s nothing more frustrating than spending hours preparing pizza dough, only for it to tear apart as you’re stretching it. Fortunately, tearing dough is a common problem and usually easy to fix.

The Most Common Baking Steel Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)

How to season, clean and safely store your carbon baking pizza steel

Pizza dough hydration is one of the most important - and most misunderstood variables in pizza dough. It affects everything from oven spring and texture to how your pizza behaves in a home oven, especially when baking on a carbon steel.

Why Your Baking Steel Darkens - and Why That's a Good Thing

If you bake pizza at home - especially on a pizza steel - you’ve probably discovered one simple truth: good pizza starts with great dough. And the easiest way to get consistent, professional-quality results is by using a pizza dough calculator.

If you’ve started making pizza at home, you’ve probably heard two recommendations for a great bake: a pizza stone or a carbon baking steel. Both promise crispier crusts and better browning - but they actually work very differently. Here’s a quick breakdown to help you make up your mind when choosing what to use.

When it comes to great pizza, toppings are where you get to be creative - but they can also make or break the final result. Get the sauce right, choose the right cheese, and suddenly your home-oven pizza tastes like it came from a real pizzeria in Italy. So in this post, let’s talk through the basics - tomato, cheese and what options you have available in the UK.

This Neapolitan style home pizza dough recipe is tried and tested, utilizing the optimal hydration that's suitable for domestic oven temperatures. Enjoy making authentic crispy, golden pizzas right at home with your carbon baking pizza steel.

Here you can explore the ideas, techniques and science behind making great pizza at home. From getting the most from your baking steel to understanding dough, heat and the baking process, discover practical advice to help you make better pizza. Hi, I'm Tim I’m the founder and owner of ScratchMadePizza, and I’ve been passionate about making authentic pizza at home since I was about 10 years old. For years, I experimented with different dough recipes, ingredients and baking tec