My good friend, Matt, visited me last weekend. To celebrate this rare occasion, I decided to make pizza for us on Friday night. I have previously made pizza by baking the pie on a baking sheet. Although the pizza was edible, I had never been able to create hard crust. To enhance the texture of the crust, I baked my pizza on a heated tile last Friday.

The result was fantastic; my pizza had crunchy crust. The tile trapped the heat and dissipated it into the pizza dough; therefore, the bottom of the pizza was brown (or black) and crusty. A hard crust is important to pizza’s overall texture. Not only does hard crust give the pizza a nice bite, but it also keeps the pizza in shape without cheese or other ingredients sliding off from the top.

My tile sitting at the bottom of oven.

Margherita - a famous Italian pizza made of fresh tomato sauce, mozzarella, and chopped basil.

Cacciatore (a type of salami) with Fresh Mozzarella.

Triumphant…the hard crust!

What do you consider to be a good pizza?