Re: My Journey Thus Far

Quote from: gcpizza on Yesterday at 11:09:23 PMRemove it. It is taking up heat that could be going to the steel you are baking on.  It will make the preheat quicker as well as the recovery between pizzas quicker. If after removing the second steel you’re still not at or slightly above the set oven temperature on the steel after a 90 min preheat you may want to get an oven thermometer and check the calibration with nothing in the oven (remove the steel) to make sure it is actually getting up to 550F. Use an oven thermometer to measure air temperature and not your IR. I’d also wouldn’t use the foil. I don’t  think that it’s a good idea and your steel will get to temperature without it.

Thanks again, GC!  I’ll remove it.  I already removed the tinfoil.  I just mixed poolish for a single test pizza tomorrow.  My wife is rolling her eyes in her sleep.