How to get pizza crispy

[drspouse]

So I have a pizza stone and I do preheat it and I still can't really get my pizza crispy!

What am I doing wrong?

I usually use this recipe
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4683/pizza-margherita-in-4-easy-steps

I just got some pasta flour which a friend recommended. I'm going to try that today.
I am probably using a bit more mozzarella on some bits of the pizza as DS doesn't like it so his has just tomato and salami but his part isn't much crispier!

I only cook one pizza at once as if I cook more they are really soggy.

I use the bread baking setting. The fan setting is rubbish.

I roll out the dough with a rolling pin onto a silicone baking mat and then put the whole mat on the pizza stone. I don't have a pizza peel and I can't transfer it otherwise.

Right, next go will be cooked for longer and I'll try reducing some passata.
Why does nobody sell sauce the right consistency?

OP I find that you can't get pizza dough thin enough just by rolling it out. Have you tried stretching it with your hands? This will make a big difference

• preheat oven
• semolina or polenta flour
• very, very thin base!

pink I did stretch it but it got transparent in the middle!

I use sundried tomato paste as passata too wet. Cook for longer

Can you buy a pizza peel they're not expensive and would be worth it for crispy pizza

I just buy pizza sauce from ASDA

groceries.asda.com/product/olives-antipasti-pizza-bases/asda-tomato-basil-pizza-topper/1902040

Transparent in places is fine. As long as you don’t get holes it is all good.

Much better - Morrison's pizza topper to the rescue. Plus a slightly higher temperature.
Next time I'll make the base bigger I think.

Glad to hear it OP! Was the pizza topper drier (I mean less wet) than the passata that you usually use?

Yes it was, next time I'd like to try freezing them.

I haven't ever tried freezing "made"/ assembled pizzas, but you do know that you can freeze the dough? I freeze it straight after it's had it's first prove. Makes pizza night much less stressful if you can just get the dough out of the freezer

I have done that but I'm hoping to assemble two so DH can stop moaning that home made is too much bother.