The short answer is yes, it will help accomplish the goal of getting the pizza into the oven and onto your steel. But remember, cornmeal is literally ground up corn.
Why on earth do you want chopped corn on the bottom of your pizza? That's kind of gross to be honest. Instead, use either flour or semolina flour or better yet a combo of both. Let me explain. The goal is for the pizza dough to easily slide off the peel and onto your waiting Baking Steel in the oven. Change things up on your next pizza night with homemade cornmeal pizza dough. So I love pizza just a little bit.
And if you say you, well… too bad because today is another pizza day! Pizza pizza. I was slightly skeptical about cornmeal in pizza dough until trying this deep dish pizza. Because I like a nice crisp pizza on most occasions, or at least the outside. No doughy, soggy or soft pizzas here.
Thin and crisp, all the way! Thin and crisp with a unique flavor and texture. Switch things up on your next pizza night with a fun new and very easy to make pizza dough! If you want to read more about how to properly pre heat you pizza stone, check out this article. That said, cornmeal can still be useful for pizza baking. Especially when you transfer the pizza from the counter to the oven, dusting your pizza peel to prevent sticking is a good idea!
Cornmeal works great to prevent pizza from sticking to the pizza peel. Raw pizza dough stick much more than baked pizza, so sticking to the peel is a real issue. There are a few things you can do to prevent sticking. Firstly, you should not use a super sticky dough, this will definitely make problems. You should also avoid adding too much sauce, cheese and other topping to the pizza, as this will make the dough more moist and stick more.
You should also try to avoid leaving the raw pizza on the pizza peel for too long. This will create a barrier between the dough and allow the pizza to slide off more easily. I don't tend to bake very sticky doughs directly on the stone, though. One tip that may help if you aren't already doing it is to shake the dough on the peel right after you put it on, to make sure it isn't sticking and loosen it up if it is -- then when you go to get it off the peel in the oven it is more likely to work. I think these suggestions are great for more traditional pizza dough, but I'd be really surprised if anything but parchment paper will work for no-knead dough.
Also: practice. You will have a few disasters along the way, but it gets easier with practice. You can still use long development as with no-knead, and it will come out fine.
I do this all the time. Do not parbake as it will dry out the crust. You want high temperature and short cook time. Also preheat your stone for a good 40 minutes. I just made two pizzas tonight with no-knead type dough, the peasant boule dough from Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. I don't use cornmeal at all; just flour. The exterior of the dough already has to be dusted with enough flour so that I can shape it, so it's not that much extra. I do this as a test: Dust the entire surface of the peel with some flour and ensure that you can make the dough slide around on it a bit, just so it moves a quarter-inch or so jiggle it gently for proof.
If it sticks and doesn't slide, carefully lift up the dough and sprinkle more flour under it. Repeat until you achieve the slide scrape off any bits that have stuck before adding extra flour , then slide the dough onto the stone, while jiggling the peel enough to encourage sliding. When putting dough into the oven, if you start with the edge of the peel at the back of the stone, you just need the front edge of the dough to make contact with the back part of the stone, then you can slowly, while slightly wiggling it, retract the peel out from underneath the dough.
Good luck, and enjoy your bread. Response by poster: Thanks so much for all of your suggestions! Indeed it is the combination of a wet, sticky dough and proofing on the peel that is causing the problem. It sounds like parchment is the best solution in this case. I will keep the other tips in mind for pizza night. Cheap cheap house construction.
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