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25 Jan
Giveaway: Super Peel Pizza Peel
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Raise your hand if you love (or even like) pizza. No doubt many of us share a love for a great big slice of pizza full of favorite toppings. Sometimes there is nothing better than kicking back on a Friday night and waiting for the doorbell to ring and seeing dinner appear before your eyes. Sometimes, though, there is nothing more satisfying that pulling a homemade pizza out of your own oven and feasting on it. A perfect crust that you can top with the exact amount of sauce and cheese that you prefer and your favorite toppings. While I am a big fan of the classic pepperoni pizza, gourmet-style pizzas have become all the rage lately.
No matter your pizza preference, you are sure to love this Super Peel Pizza Peel
Gary, the inventor of the Super Peel, contacted me after the holidays to find out if I received one and when I said I hadn’t he offered to ship me one and if I liked it, to provide another for a giveaway. Well, let me tell you – it totally rocks and my pizza making is a million times better! If you’ve ever tried to “toss” a pizza onto a hot stone, you are all too familiar with the troubles that can ensue. And of course shaping one on a cold stone and putting it in the oven totally defeats the purpose of the stone. So, the long and short of it is, the Super Peel is nothing short of awesome and you need one. Therefore, I have taken Gary up on his offer and am giving one away to a lucky reader chosen at random!
Deadline: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:59pm EST
Required: Your email address. You must fill out the email address portion of the comment form (it will not be published) or I will not be able to contact you should you win.
How to Enter: It’s simple! Leave a comment on this post and answer the following question:
Have you had a pizza disaster? Tell me about it! If not, share your most wretched baking disaster.
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My worst pizza disaster was not super exciting. It pretty much centered around trying to bake my pizza in the convection oven and forgetting to set a timer. I got distracted and came back to a pizza that was well on its way to being black. Very disappointing when you are really hungry!
One time I was trying out a new whole wheat recipe and I still don’t know what I did but it was NASTY. The texture, the taste, the whole things was a wreck. My husband tried to be sweet and eat it anyway. I couldn’t let him eat it so I threw it in the garbage.
What a great giveaway – I’ve had this on my wishlist since I saw it on your site around the holidays! My big disaster was trying out a new dough recipe at my parents place. We spent probably $40 on toppings (goat cheese, sun dried tomato, fresh mozzarella, procisutto, mushrooms, spinach, etc…) I used every last bit of the expensive toppings on two pies but when it finally came time to eat them we basically just wanted to scrape off the toppings since the new crust recipe was so bad
(We also didn’t have a pizza stone at my parents place so the nasty crust wasn’t even crisp)
My worst pizza making disaster is i’m sure a very common one. I made my pizza on a baking sheet and tried to slide it onto the stone only to have the phone thing stick and then hit the bottom of the oven instead. SO TRAGIC!
oh man….I’d love one of those babies. I just bought my first pizza peel (bed, bath and beyond). not for pizza but for no knead dough. I know I didn’t get one that is even close to “top of the line”. and after seeing this one, it’s even more obvious!
luckily no major disasters. only when I don’t make enough
I tried making a stromboli for the first time about a year ago and followed a recipe that was in british measurement. Well, I ended up adding too much flour and the dough was just rock hard and not manageable at all! But I tried and making it again the next day and it turned out perfect as I added a lot less flour to the dough.
I once dropped a mini pizza I had made myself on the floor and all the toppings slide off. Since it was just for me and no one was looking, I quickly scooped it up and ate it!
When transferring to oven, my sough stuck and half fell on the stone the other half with toppings on the floor of the oven.
Not a pretty sight.
I love making pizza but am not a natural. For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out how to get my pizza on a hot stone (we don’t have a peel). Someone recommended making the pizza on parchment paper that could then be dragged onto the hot stone (like the picture above). Instead of grabbing the parchment paper, I grabbed wax paper, and well…you can imagine how that turned out–we ended up just eating the toppings and cheese and leaving the waxy (but perfectly crisp!) crust behind. Another time, I decided that one pizza dough from Trader Joe’s didn’t seem like enough dough, so I added a second package. The result was a pizza that we cooked for over an hour–the top was completely brown, verging on burnt, but the center was still completely doughy. By then we were so hungry though, we thought it was great!
Clearly, I need all the help I can get!!
I’ve only “made” pizza once, unfortunately it wasn’t from scratch, so maybe that was the disaster? But…I do have a pretty bad baking disaster to share. I was baking yellow cupcakes from scratch & accidentally used baking powder instead of baking soda, when they came out shriveled & disgusting – I thought it was the recipe, then I re-read it and realized I was supposed to use baking soda, so I tried it again with the correct ingredients and realized it was just me. Picture to prove the disaster: http://bit.ly/6xvppD
I haven’t had a disaster, exactly, but I’ve tried to make homemade pizza dough a few times and never get it right! I’m ready to tackle it once and for all.. would love this! Thanks!
Yes I have! My disaster was not letting the yeast dissolve enough and the dough didn’t quite rise before cooking. The sauce was delicious but the crust turned out terrible. It was for a new year’s party & I was so embarrassed I couldn’t even serve it.
Worst kitchen disaster? How to choose . . . would it be the time I dumped the entire bag of cookies on the floor trying to make oreo truffles? Or the ferrero rocher cupcakes (or should I say bricks) where I left out the baking soda?
I think it’d have to be my coconut cream pie — errr, soup. Didn’t let the coconut mixture heat enough to thicken, and the resulting pie was delicious, but was definitely runny pudding in a crust!!
No real baking disasters. Although, my mother once exploded a can of marshmallow creme all over her hair when we were baking for the holidays… We used to store it in a microwave that we didn’t often use – you can see where this story is going
The worst thing I’ve done is accidently used Bisquick for flour in a cookie recipe. Not a major catastrophe, just not the best cookies you’ve ever eaten in your life.
My worst baking disaster is my most recent pie-making effort (blackberry – not pizza pie, that is!). While I’ve burnt things and made inedible things before, this time, this pie was for a birthday celebration. It was on National Pie Day, as well – the shame, the horror. The crust turned out perfectly (my first lattice, too!), but the recipe I tried for the filling didn’t work…very runny. Not the best for holding up a birthday candle. It’s detailed on my latest post at IslandEat.wordpress.com
My worst pizza disaster was when my pizza stone broke in the oven, with the pizza on it! Yikes!
My pizza disaster is closely connected to this fabulous giveaway… I haven’t figured out – in advance – how to transfer the pizza dough and fillings to the oven and as you may have figured out, the thin dough wasn’t up to carrying the heavy load… It looked like a drawing by Dali…
my pizza disasters are always mundane! under done crust, over done veggies, etc!
my last pizza disaster came when i attempted to recreate CPK’s amazing pear and gorgonzola pizza (with caramelized onions and walnuts, yum!) while the pizza in the end tasted ok…it….well… the crust was under done considerably because i accientally left a round heavy pan in the bottom of the oven blocking the center of the pizza from being able to cook! when the edges of the crust looked done, i broiled the pizza to get good cheese caramelization and ended up burning it when i tried to continue cooking the pizza after broiling it. bah!
My worst pizzadister happened a while back when I was baking pizza and I wanted to try tossing the pizza in the air. And the first toss went brilliantly and then i tried a second one. Unfortunetly I got to close to my chrystal chandelier hanging over the kitchen table… I had to clean pizza dough out of the chandelier for days to come… Lets just say that I didn’t make pizza in that house again. I don’t acutally think I got all the dough out of the chandelier, I’m sure that I will still find bits and pieces if i look closely
My worst pizza disaster was my very first pizza ! Since I didn’t have a pizza peel, I used a cardboard coaster as a peel and tried to transfer the pizza into a very hot oven. The dough got stuck and when I pushed harder, half of the dough slide onto the pizza stone ( a brand new stone which cracked on me the first bake ) and then the stone cracked into half ! So here I have a very messy situation in a very hot oven ! A real mess – cheese and all – which I have to wait till the oven cools down to clean up. So much for home made pizza. Sighhh…had to order takeaways for dinner = (
Worst pizza disaster? Probably similar to a lot of other people’s – dropped it on the oven floor, face down, as I was pulling it out. It was so traumatic I can’t remember what we did, whether we salvaged or tossed it. Not one of my finer moments. that’s for sure.
I haven’t had a pizza disaster, but I’ve had a horrible baking one, where after hours of slaving over a cake, I bumped into it, and it crumbled right onto the floor.. Shed some major tears that day!
Posted about it on facebook – don’t know if you’ll be able to see it, though:
http://www.facebook.com/ginny.kochis?ref=mf
My worst pizza disaster involved rushing, piling on too many toppings, and having the center be warm, but not cooked – including the dough.
We have had a pizza disaster. My husband was trying to transfer the pizza to the hot stone in the oven (with a not-so-good pizza peel) and 1/2 of the toppings slid into the oven. It was awful! We don’t use that peel anymore. We’ve been wanting to purchase a new one for a while!
My biggest pizza disaster was when I tried to use the “parchment paper” method and it was so flimsy the whole cheesy pizza dropped on the floor and down in my oven. I wasn’t too pleased. That’s why I really NEED this peel! Thanks for sharing, and I love all of your recipes!
Have I had a pizza disaster? I’ve had many, but I’ve blocked out the details.
Mainly the typical things like overcooking or undercooking. Nothing too crazy I don’t think. 
My worst weepy pizza tale was when we had apower outage th minute I popped my much touted pizza into the oven. We evetually ate, very ugh, soggy pizza with forks. I wept virtual copious tears!
Great giveaway Jamie! I could do with a peel!
I tweeted http://twitter.com/AvanikaYB/statuses/8189093596
my worst pizza disaster happened when i made a pizza too big for my pizza stone… it sort of slumped over the edges, and the cheese started melting onto the bottom of the oven and even after a second of putting it in it was way too hot in there to move *shudder*** i ended up singed, with a half burnt pizza and cheese baked onto the bottom of my oven!
and tweeted!
http://twitter.com/leahweinberg
Just the usual disasters – underdone, overdone, too thick/too thin.
I’m new at making my own so no real disasters yet. Worst so far is undercooked….
Whole wheat pizza dough recipe with too much whole wheat flour…it was so dense the crust browned, but the rest of it failed to cook…doughy and gross!
How funny! I just did a post yesterday about pizza…in cake form, however! Friday night are our pizza night and I have been wanting a peel for so long. We make our pizza, usually so we have had many a disaster, but probably when we tried to be super cool and do “grilled” pizza outside. They said to put it directly on the grill grates…hmmm, not so much
Well, no real disasters with pizza…..messy oven……burned mouth………
This looks like a great fun product.
Thanks for including me.
My pizza disaster happened when I didn’t use quite a big enough pan for my pizza. Gravity took over and most of the pizza started falling over the side of the oven and i had to pull everything out before I started a fire….
The first time I made pizza, I tried to slide it off my cutting board and onto the pizza stone. That did not go so well; most of the dough ended up stretching and getting holes. Not to mention, I lost a few toppings onto the oven door.
I’ve had plenty of pizza disasters, but the latest one came after trying a new crust which happened to stick to my pizza pan. I was left with topping but little crust for my slices of pie.
My adventures in pizza making are worthy of reproducing in a black-and-white slapstick film. (Or perhaps in a spin-off of Groundhog’s Day.) When I registered for a pizza stone for my wedding, I did not know that a pizza peel would be just as important to making a smooth transition from the kitchen counter to the pre-heated stone in the oven. On a weekly basis, in quixotic pursuit of “that perfect pizza”, I attempt to knead and shape dough into perfect circle. Dough sticks to me, to the cutting board, flour coats the countertops. My husband looks at me with sympathetic eyes as I am manhandling dough and pulling the pizza stone out of the oven. I set a 500 degree stone on the rangetop, and try to pull/push the dough into a pretty shape to lay on the stone. As I marvel at my geometric creation never seen by expert pizza makers, I realize that putting sauce and toppings on now, with the stone out of the oven, is not the preferred technique, but using the silicone cutting board as a make-shift pizza peel didn’t work so well last time (unless scrambled pizza is a new culinary delicacy I’ve invented.) My pride dies a little bit, realizing that yet again, I have managed to make something as simple as pizza into a complicated event. Putting the creation back in the oven, I tell myself that one day I will get it right. And until that happens, at least I’ve saved half the dough to make a more forgiving stromboli later in the week!
My pizza disaster involved transferring my pizza onto my pizza stone and it just falling apart everywhere. Not pretty. Thanks for putting together this cool giveaway!
I’ve not had a pizza disaster, but I did have a brownie disaster last night. I was trying to flip a heart-shaped brownie out and managed to flip it on the counter instead of the cooling rack. Fail.
I haven’t had a pizza disaster, unless you count making inferior pizza a disaster! I’ve made my own crust once and it was just okay. I know I have some improvements to make…
Yes! I was pulling a pizza out of the oven and half of it slipped off the tray — and all the toppings ran right off onto the oven rack. What a mess! I would love this giveaway, we love making pizza at home!
Oh, how this pizza peel is needed in my kitchen! Everytime my husband I make pizza at home things get VERY tense in the kitchen when it comes time to transfer the uncooked pizza to the hot pizza stone. We always have different ideas on what the “best” way to accomplish this. Each time we end up frustrated and promising ourselves that we will buy a pizza peel. Perfect give away!
We make pizza all the time. After a few tries at my own dough- we have given up and just started buying the premade shells. I wish one day to make a decent dough turn out tasting good.
Haha, as if there aren’t pizza shops on every corner here! Although, sometimes the good shops tend to be a bit pricey.
I do have a pizza, well, Stromboli incident. I was putting the ingredients on top of the dough, artichokes, roasted red peppers, cheese, etc. Then I rolled it all up and was about ready to pop it in the oven, when I saw the pepperoni lying on the countertop still in it’s packaging. I ripped open the bottom part of the stromboli. It came out okay – but something about the grease from the pepperoni baking makes it taste better when it’s through out, not just on the bottom.
The first time I made pizza was a nightmare…my house smelled like smoke for two days!!! The neighbors came over to see if we were okay because within a half hour ALL the smoke detectors in the house were going off!
I used a pizza stone but the center was raw and the ends on the top were burnt…It was gross!! I didn’t make pizza again for the longest time. Just the thought of it made me shake and my eyes well up and burn, like they did on the awful night. But practice makes it better. We actually enjoyed a few very good pizzas. And hopefully many more in the future.
My pizzas were pretty much all disasters until I figured out what I was doing wrong- not pre-heating the stone! I couldn’t figure out why everyone was singing the praises of pizza stones when my pizzas came out awful (crust overcooked on the outside, gooey on the inside) and I had to scrape them off the stone!
I don’t know if I’m leaving the right link, but I did tweet about your giveaway!
http://twitter.com/lisatauer
I need a pizza peel because I just bought Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day in my quest to learn how to bake bread in 2010 and it’s on the list of things you need. Please pick ME!
I asked for a pizza peel for Christmas but didn’t get one! I have had SO many pizza disasters (seriously all because I didn’t have a pizza peel!) Every time I try to slide the pizza onto the stone it sticks to my surface and then the toppings fall off and hit the hot stone – the cheese immediately starts to burn onto it, ugh! This is a fantastic giveaway!
oh yes. pizza stone not hot enough to crisp the crust + heavy toppings [ev olive oil, mozz, tomato, basil] + used fresh buffalo mozz instead of the more melting friendly packaged kind = floppy crust covered with white from the mozz, instead of nice circles where we placed them like a REAL margherita pizza. live and learn!
cheers,
*heather*
Chocolate turkey…enough said, right? I actually found the recipe in a Mexican cookbook. Tasted like chocolate turkey. Ugh. I still get cold chills.
I was just longing for a pizza peel!! Almost everytime I try to make pizza or some type of flatbread, I try to slide it into the oven onto my baking stone and it gets wrinkled up. It is so maddening to see the beautiful pizza all smooshed up! I would love this pizza peel.
I can not say that I have had any major pizza disasters but there has been plenty of times that I have ended up with milk, flour, powdered sugar or any other hard to clean fluffy substance all over myself and the kitchen. I have also had my share of of unrisen cakes and flat cookies.
Pizzas on the grill…..they burn REALLY quickly
I know this from experience!
My first issue was the dough, something just wasn’t right, it really wouldn’t stretch, it was extremely sticky more on my hands than the baking sheet. I tried to make a circle, yeah right, the kids were goofing because it looked nothing like a pizza. The kids luv sauce, so they were piling it on, I luv cheese and vegetables so those were tossed on too. Oven was preheated, and we kept watching it, the dough was rising however the water from the vegies and the overload of the sauce made it start dripping to the bottom of the oven, burning and stinking up the house. Now my house is filled with smoke and the smoke detector is going off, the kids are opening up windows and doors to let it out. All the while the dog is freaking out and jumping on the beds looking for shelter. When we took the pizza out, needless to say it wasn’t extremely edible but we ate it. The dough never really dried it was so doughy you could probably make another pizza out of it, the crust was burnt around the edges and it tasted burnt from all the freaking smoke. The kids of course didn’t want to hurt my feelings said it was good, but I knew they were lying. I would be stoked to try this pizza peel out!!!
My husband has really gotten onto a homemade pizza kick recently, and a few weeks ago he made two pizzas in anticipation of a guys’ night. The pizzas came out of the oven looking delicious and he put them on the counter to cool, and then went upstairs to change quickly before the guys arrived. He comes downstairs literally less than 5 minutes later to find both pizzas smeared all across the floor and my dog happily chomping all the pepperonis and cheese. Needless to say it was a rueful husband placing the call to Domino’s that night!!!
I’ve been pretty fortunate that the 3 times I’ve made pizza they turned out very well. My sweety who claims to not be a pizza lover even liked them.
My worst pizza disaster had all the warning signs: I was making dough with old-ish yeast, frozen cheese (I forgot to thaw it earlier in the day) and a baking sheet. Well, the crust didn’t rise or cook properly, and when I tried to remove it from the oven, half the pepperoni and cheese topping, along with the sauce, oozed right off the pizza and all over my oven floor. And proceeded to start smoking on the heating element. Needless to say, this looks like a great giveaway!
No huge pizza disaster, but since I don’t have a pizza peel, I typically just assemble the pizza on the cold stone and put it in the oven to cook – I know, I know a big no-no since the stone is supposed to be really hot when the pizza hits it….which is exactly why my homemade pizza NEEDS this amazing super peel!!
I can’t think of a pizza disaster….but I have had plenty of other kitchen disasters!
Being a novice pizza maker, I’ve had an unfortunate run with disasters in that arena. One was just last night… Trying to make calzones without a pizza peel. I didn’t realize how soft and mushy the dough gets once you put it on to the hot pizza stone. It just kind of falls apart and the fillings fall out and, well, it’s not pretty.
Awesome giveaway!
Most of my pizza disasters involve ripping holes in the crust immediately before the pizza is meant to go in the oven, then panicking during the repair process.
Oh, yes, I’ve had pizza disasters! There’s nothing worse than soggy crust, yes? I’ve never been able to perfect the right crisp on a pizza crust, and my worst pizza came while trying to make a margherita pizza. Already soggy crust topped with fresh (moisture-releasing) mozzarella cheese? Not. Good.
The only pizza disaster was when I lived in a house with a stove that had a broken thermostat. So when the dial said 400 it was more like 600. Not good to cook a pizza in.
My worst pizza disaster really had to do with the oven… Back in college I went into the shared kitchen to bake a pizza after work one night (around 11pm maybe?) and unknown to me someone had left a nasty mess on the bottom of the oven. So when I put my pizza in all it did was smoke up and ended up setting the fire alarm off. Which resuted in the fire department coming out and the building being evacuated until they figured out what was going on. lol. I didn’t cook pizza in the oven again.
Well let’s just say I was lazy and didn’t make the dough from scratch…that pre-made dough was just nasty! I threw away the entire pizza.
My worst pizza disaster was making a deep dish pizza, spending more money than usual on toppings and then having the dough totally uncooked in the center. We ended up scraping off the filling and toppings and eating them with a fork. Thanks for the great give-away!
I tweeted!! http://twitter.com/airplaneninja/status/8193808491
I haven’t had a pizza disaster yet, but that’s b/c I don’t bake it often at home!
My pizza disasters include the crust being bland or the recipe not turning out as I had wanted. Also the dreaded dropping the pizza on the floor, topping side down of course!
My second time making pizza with homemade dough I obviously didn’t cornmeal my ‘pizza peel’ (cookie sheet) well enough. I even picked up the edges just to be sure it wasn’t sticking, but when I went to put it on the stone in the oven, I jerked the cookie sheet to slide the pizza off. The pizza stuck in the middle and flew off, bouncing off the oven door before falling on the floor. I was not impressed. It was all of my dough. I got takeout….
I tweeted! http://twitter.com/michelle7508/status/8194044840
No major pizza disasters, but I’ve had a major samosas disaster. The dough was dry and crumbly and awful, no matter how I tried to fix it. We ended up just eating the filling for the samosas… that part was good!
I haven’t had a pizza disaster because the I’m a little scared to try it from scratch. My Mom made homemade pizzas every Friday night and until I tried a store pizza as a teen I was convinced I hated pizza. Turns out it was just Mom’s. So I’m a little leary of trying it even though my culinary skills are better than hers were (Sorry Mom!).
I posted about this giveaway on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=feed&story_fbid=268003023660&id=1569279143&ref=nf
Pizza disaster: We didn’t dust the peel with enough cornmeal and it stuck when we tried to slide it onto the stone, so it got all smushed and non-round. Then we couldn’t get it off the stone. We eneded up with something like pizza stew or pizza mush since everything basically got mangled and tossed together and we had to eat it with a knife & fork. Here’s my post about it: http://blueeley.blogspot.com/2009/05/pizza-pizzelles.html
Big disaster, I tripled a recipe for banana bread but had run out of baking soda and thought I could make it without it. The top of the bread crusted and browned but the inside never baked. It was a huge disaster and a waste of a bunch of great ripe bananas.
Ok, pizza is one of my all time favorite foods, but I cant get up the guts to make a homemade pizza? Lazy huh? This pizza peel looks like so much fun I think it would possibly make my first attempt at homemade pizza that much easier?
So I have no pizza disasters unless you mean the delivery showing up with a pizza with all the wrong toppings! haha
I feel like ALL my pizza making expolits are disasters. The crust NEVER works. I fail at rolling it out every single time, it’s gotten so frustrating I’ve stopped trying
(
The first time I made pizza at home I used fresh mozzarella. I guess I used too much or didn’t slice it thin enough. When I put it in the oven, all the water drained from the cheese and I had a wet mess of a pizza. So sad!
Most common pizza problem for me is having the cheese (and toppings) overdone with an uncooked crust!
no major pizza making disasters… although i have tried quite a few doughs that have not turned out quite as i had hoped!!!
The first time I made my own pizza dough, I thought the cornmeal was optional. Turns out it wasn’t! We couldn’t take the pizza off the cookie sheet because it was stuck to the pan!
This looks wonderful. We eat pizza often and I usually make it because of my son’s allergies. My one pizza disaster was during a birthday party. I made my son a pizza on a pre-cooked crust and put it under the boiler to melt the cheese. I forgot to check it and it came out of the oven on fire. Luckily I had another crust on hand.
I haven’t had a pizza disaster per se – not unless frozen dough NOT BEHAVING as well as it did before freezing counts – but my biggest baking disaster was definitely having perfect, beautiful little macaron cookies slide off the cooling rack and crack into bits on the floor. Of course, it was only the really nice ones with perfect feet that fell.
I think this looks awesome… my latest pizza disaster — my pizza stone with a delicious pizza totally stuck on. We ended up having to cut the underside of the pizza off because it was so attached. Good think the crust was pretty thick.
I don’t really have a pizza disaster but I do have a baking disaster. I was baking a chocolate cake for my daughter’s birthday. Turned out the cake too early and the bottom half of my cake stuck onto the pan.
When my children were younger, we would have pizza nights. They would all make a pizza with the toppings of their choice.
My youngest loved pizza with ham and pineapple, I walked away to do some laundry and she had opened the pineapple tidbits and dumped it on the pizza without draining it first. What a mess. One of her older brothers was nice enough to let her have his pizza crust to put toppings on. I would love the pizza peel to make pizza with my grandchildren. Love your blog and all the recipes.
My worst pizza disaster happened yesterday. I (like another poster above) used waxed paper instead of parchment paper. Unfortunately I was suppose to take it to a football party, so I spent a lot of time carefully trying to peel every bit off. Ended up having to use a knife to try to remove a thin layer of the crust!
I haven’t made homemade pizza. But my husband used to manage a pizza place before we met and married. He says that the worst was the day that all the ovens were not owrking correctly.
I have 2, but I’ll just share the one:
A few years ago, I had found a scone recipe that looked amazing (Orange Cranberry Scones from Ina Garten) and I just HAD to try it. I actually had my 2 young cousins with me that day (boys of about 4 and 7) and they were really excited to be helping me in the kitchen. Well, during the excitement of a 7-yr-old grating orange peel and a 4-yr-old cracking eggs, I misread the salt addition, and instead of the teaspoon measurement, I ended up using a tablespoon! The first bites weren’t so bad, but after bite 2, the 4 year old looks at me and says, “Becca…this is NOT good.” OH the honesty of children…
Ohhh, me me me!! My worst pizza disaster probably can’t be qualified as a complete disaster.. but I once went through all of the trouble of making homemade pizza, just to take it out too soon and have the crust be too soft/gooey. I tried to put it back in, but that didn’t work.. so it wasn’t very good
(.
My worst pizza disaster was not terrible, but just a case of bad planning. I usually make pizzas on Fridays and use leftovers as toppings, but one week we ended up eating a black bean and cauliflower pizza. In reality, it was not too terribly bad.
No real pizza disasters, just an endless quest to find the right combination of dough recipe, sauce recipe and baking conditions! I’m still not satisfied with any combinations I have tried. I don’t have a pizza peel, so I’m not using my pizza stone right now. I’m sure that’s part of the problem
I make homemade pizza at least once a week! I loooove pizza.
I’ve never had a pizza disaster, but when I was first learning to cook I had a meatloaf disaster. When I read the recipe, I didn’t notice that it was TWO pounds of ground beef and instead I only put one in. Oh boy. That was a super over-seasoned gross meatloaf. My now-husband then-boyfriend didn’t want to let me cook again. I was so embarrassed! Turns out, though, once he gave me a chance I became an excellent cook. 
My worst baking disaster was misreading how much sugar to put in some cookies. I put in half. They were not, to put it mildly, good cookies.
I guess mine would be eating frozen store brand pizza. Not that there is such thing as bad pizza, but I have had much much better!
I have DEFINITELY had a pizza disaster. I tried a homemade crust and it turned out utterly disgusting with no flavor, cardboard, and flat. I have yet to find a homemade recipe I like. We always use the pillsbury pre made stuff… :-/
We would love this!! We make pizza once a week!!
My worst attempt at making a pizza was the first time I tried. For some reason the pizza crust was flat as a cardboard and not fluffy. My husband and myself forced ourselves to eat it
But I have tried and tried again with making pizzas and each time, I tend to get better. Thanks 
My worst pizza disastaer was when I used Pillsbury’s Hot roll mix to make a pizza crust. The pizza was in the oven when I picked up the mix box to throw it away and sdiscovered the unopened yeast packet still in the box! Of course, the dough was flat so we just ate the toppings off of it.
I haven’t had a pizza disaster yet, but my worst baking disaster was definitely when I accidentally left a pot holder in the oven. The worst thing is that it took me a few minutes to realize why my apartment was filling up with smoke!!
Never had a pizza disaster (thank heavens, what a waste that would be), but I did have the brilliant idea to overstuff a full tray (four) of calzones. BAD IDEA! You can imagine the mess. Luckily, everything that survived was delicious!
Funny you should ask. I just had my own little kitchen disaster last night, when the bottom of my springform pan dropped out….so did the cheesecake that was inside. What a mess!
I have never made homemade pizza so no disasters on that front – yet
I have however used cream of tartar in a recipe for baking soda. It definitely does not produce the same results.
My pizza disaster was when I was moving into my current apartment. I hadn’t gotten all my stuff over here at that time, but thought I had all that was required to make a pizza. I made the pizza only to discover that my pizza stone and cookie sheets – with the exception of one very tiny baking sheet – were still in boxes at my old place. So… I attempted to put this large pizza on a very itsy bitsy cookie sheet. Not only did it not cook well, but much of it ended up at the bottom of the oven! Not sure what else I could have used, but we still managed to eat some of it
I make pizza just about every week. I love it!! My disaster still happens just when I think I’m so good at making pizza, good enough to open up my own pizzeria…well, I try to slide the pizza off my peel and it gets !*#@ up in the back of the oven with the cheese and mushrooms and peppers burning on the oven rack and pizza stones. It happened yesterday during the playoff football games. Which reminds me, I better go check my oven to remove the burnt bits!
We haven’t had any pizza dough disasters…although we do tend to cheat the “rising” time before baking!
In college I made pizza and I had only a few toppings available. Hot dogs (sliced) and rice krispies!
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I don’t know that this counts as a full blown disaster, but certainly a less then ideal pizza experience. Before I got my pizza stone I tried making pizza using a regular baking sheet. I tried it twice, each time shaping the crust on the baking sheet, then topping it and cooking it. The Texan likes his pizza with lots of sauce and toppings, so both times his pizza was soggy on the bottom and not so appealing. After I got my pizza stone, I tried the recipe in the KAF Baker’s Companion which calls for baking the crust half way before adding the toppings. This worked great. The only challenge was getting the raw dough onto the pizza stone. Hmm, sounds like I need a pizza peel.
Trying to slide the pizza off of a sheet (pre-purchase of a pizza stone), having it stick and all the cheese/toppings sliding off, onto the floor and my clothes.
My most wretched baking disaster happened during Thanksgiving with all my family a few years ago. My mistake was not trying the recipe beforehand. It was a baked corn casserole, and the salt seemed a bit much, but I just trusted the recipe. BIG MISTAKE. The thing was so salty: it was inedible. I felt SO embarrassed.
Burning is the worst! Of course, I eat it anyways…
Alas, I have never tried to make pizza homeade before, however when I was 8 I tried to make some biscuits and forgot to add the baking powder…..the were as hard as hockey pucks!
I don’t know if this is my worst pizza disaster, but it’s my most recent. I had this especially perfect dough ready to go, and when tried to transfer it to my (smaller, far less cool) pizza peel, it got all sticky and folded in half, and I ended up making a giant calzone instead of a pizza. I was annoyed. But it was still good.
OMG yes! I tried to grill the dough once and it fell through the slats into the heating element and caught on fire because of the olive oil i brushed on it! Smoke was everywhere and I haven’t grilled it since.
I actually have never had a pizza disaster, but I have had my share of kitchen nightmares! I actually tried to make pasta last night for the first time using my kitchen aid mixer and it all stuck together…maybe the next try will be better. It did taste good though!
When I was growing up, my father and I made homemade pizza every Sunday night. So, when I first invited this boy that I adored over for supper, I decided that I would make pizza from scratch. I made the dough and the sauce, then topped it with a multitude of ingredients and placed it in the oven. While it was cooking, he came over and I managed to completely forget that it was in the oven. By the time I remembered, it was absolutely burnt and we had to order in. That was the first and last time I ever burnt a pizza…
Ha! I could really use a peel! My worst and messiest was when I was making a pizza and put too much sauce and it oozed over the edges onto the pan onto the bottom of the oven. It was such a mess and everything in me tried to figure out a way to justify scraping the cheese and pepperoni out of the sauce to still eat it. I did not find a way to justify this! I let it all cool and harden before cleaning it! I now use a pan below my pizzas just in case I have another sauceslide :-0
I just found your website this weekend when I was looking for a recipe for the Cosi Signature Salad. Thank you so much — I made it yesterday for my son’s birthday party. Yum! My biggest cooking disaster was very simple, but a very messy one — I was using a quesadilla maker to make quesadillas and forgot to put the top tortilla on. I didn’t realize it until I opened the lid up and found the cheese all gooey and melted on the underside of the lid. Oops!
No pizza disaster, but the first meal I cooked for my now-husband (maybe two weeks into dating each other) was a roast I’d done in the crockpot with potatoes and carrots. I’d cooked it once before and it had turned out quite well, but apparently I had two versions of the recipe – the successful one said to cook on high for 6 hours, the unsuccessful one said to cook on low for 6 hours. So the meat wasn’t done and the vegetables were still mostly raw. Which is why my husband now does most of the cooking…
My worst pizza experience was when I made a yummy pizza only to have my pizza stone shatter while baking in the oven! No pizza that night!
Luckily, I haven’t had any major disasters with my pizza. The worst I’ve had is overcooked/undercooked crust and toppings. Or dough that doesn’t come together or is too sticky to form into a crust. I still haven’t found my “perfect” pizza dough recipe. I think I’ll give yours a try!
My worst pizza disaster is always the same… my crust is never fully cooked. NO ONE likes the taste of raw-ish dough!
Have always wanted one of these! So fun! My worst pizza disasters are always because of the dough. It is always mishapen and lumpy.
My disaster didn’t involve pizza, but it was the saving grace on a date tha was going badly quickly.
I had just started dating this guy, and I wanted to impress him with some home cooking. We were both vegetarians at the time. I spend all afternoon cooking a dish that I can only remember now as being something like a bean stew. It seriously took me *all* day. And we sat down to dinner and I had explained that it took so long to make, blah blah blah…and we both took a bite at the same time. And stopped. He looked at me, smiled and gently said, “Do you want to order the pizza or should I?” Looking back now I’m not sure how a bean stew would have impressed even if it worked out!
My worst pizza disaster was the first time I used both homemade crust and homemade sauce. I didn’t precook the crust, and the sauce was too thin, so it TOTALLY soaked into the crust, and the entire pizza was a soggy, half-baked MESS. It was gross.
I have never been able to get a home made crust to come out nice and crispy
. I usually just give up and go store bought. It would be nice to have home made for a change.
I had a pizza totally fold over on itself while trying to get it off of my cutting board onto the pizza stone in the oven. It kind of worked out into a pseudo calzone so it wasn’t too much of a disaster. It would sure be nice to have a pizza peel to make things easier.
A few years ago I tried to alter a pizza crust recipe from 100% bread flour to 100% wheat flour. It didn’t rise correctly and ended up really grainy and disgusting!
I can’t say I’ve ever had a major baking disaster. I just have little things go wrong. The biggest thing for me is the use of yeast, I just can’t seem to nail it down – so most times when I try to bake bread, the texture is off.
I don’t own a pizza stone, so when I want to make a pizza, I have to put the crust on an upside-down cookie sheet. (Embarassing, I know.) Anyway, it’s not very stable, and once while trying to slice the pizza, the pan shifted, and my hand slipped – right into the scorching hot sauce and cheese. It was a mess. But I learned my lesson. Now I at least slide the pizza onto a cutting board to slice it, instead of cutting it directly on the cookie sheet.
I’m ashamed to say I have yet to try making my own pizza. Hubsters swears by the frozen ones!
When I was first trying to make my own pizza, so many of the crusts came out soooooo bad.
I love making homemade pizza! I think that the worst baking disasters I had was waiting all day on a loaf of bread, having it rise beautifully, and then having it deflate in the oven because my husband banged the baking sheet too hard on the oven rack. AND, we had company coming over. I was so mad!
My worst pizza disaster was when I dropped one upside-down on the floor as I was taking it out of the oven.
I’ve burnt pizza before, but that’s about the extent of my disasters
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i have been lucky enough to not have any pizza disasters but i have had my fair share of baking ones!! the worst ones happened when my oven broke in a way in which only the broiler worked — and my landlord didnt fix it for 3 months. ever tried broiling cookies? just have to flip them!! (took me a while to figure that out
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worst pizza disaster: fairly minor and my own fault…overloading a “greek” pizza with salty items — olives, artichoke hearts, feta…too much too much!
most of my pizza experiences have been positive actually, only bad pizza i think i have eaten hasnt come from my own oven!!
We LOVE making pizza at home & very rarely have it delivered. But I desperately need this. One of my problems is actually making the crust a bit too big for our pizza stone so it oozes down the sides & all over the bottom of the stove.
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I was using rhodes frozen bread dough for the crust. I let it thaw and sprinkled some flour down and started to roll out the dough. The problem was, this dough won’t roll out with extra flour on it. I’d roll it out and it would shrink back up. I could never get it to roll out so, no pizza that night! : (
Pizza disasters? Oh yes…it took about five bad dinners for me to find a good crust, and three to figure out that fat-free mozzarella cheese does not melt! I have a very forgiving husband!
Worst pizza disaster?
Try cooking a pizza at the lowest temp possible, about 150 degrees celsuis (302F) on our oven for about 2-3 hours and then try to taste it. 1 word = disgusting. All mushy, the pizza dough was practically goo. I was 13 years old and had no idea I had to put the oven up to the highest setting to cook pizza.
A very long time ago, a friend (now co-blogger) and I made a pizza with bologna and cheddar cheese. The crust was gross, the toppings were even more gross, but we were in high school so we ate it anyway!
This peel looks wonderful! My pizza disaster was way too much pesto causing a pool of oil floating on a grossly undercooked crust. Needless to say I have learned a lot since then and now make pretty awesome pizzas.
Worst pizza disaster was using some leftover marinara sauce that had gone bad. Luckily, I was the only one who had eaten it.
Wow! That’s a fancy pizza peel! Ok, so my worst pizza disaster would be rushing into the process and started rolling out the dough before flouring my surface and the whoel thing stuck! We ordered pizza that night. Also, I made oatmeal-raisin cookies last week and added too much flour, because I wanted them to rise higher. Well, instead they got hard as bricks!
My worst pizza disaster occurred when I had no clue at all about yeast, about ten years ago. I knew that warm water was good for yeast, but I had NO idea that HOT HOT water was not. I burned those little yeasties with super hot water, and of course the dough didn’t rise at all. Gosh that was long ago…now I would almost consider myself a pizza pro, however, I do not have a peel! I use the back of a baking sheet to slide the pizza onto the stone. PLEASE pick me!!!
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my worst pizza was my first and last. i thought it would be a fun dinner i could do with my girls. made it on a cookie sheet, had their favorite ingredients, had fun with the dough. it came out so-so and after all our fun hard work my daughter tells me: “mommy, i like the pizza that the boy brings to our door!” we’ve never done it again since. help!
My biggest pizza mistake was letting hubby make it one night. We. Wound up going out to watani having to throw out my pizza pan…disaster!
My disaster was a calzone problem—I was using a baking stone and it just popped into two pieces. The calzones turned out okay, but the baking stone was never to be used again.
My worst pizza disaster — trying to put the pizza on the hot stone, and ending up with topping on one part of the stone, and warped crust on another part of stone.
Wow, I have to think about which one. Had company from out of town and was making a stuffed pork tenderloin. Things were going great, loin was browned and then put into roasting pan. I went to sprinkle rosemary (dried) on top and I unscrewed the whole top, removing the shaker part. A whole bottle of rosemary all over the meat.
The worst disaster included making a gluten-free pizza crust. It was nasty and pasty and ruined all the toppings. It was a waste.
I was soooo excited to give my boyfriend a pizza stone for his birthday. I researched them, found “the one”, had it shipped. He loved it! He loved it so much that he started to make a pizza one night when I was working late, heating up the oven to 450 degrees…and then putting the cold stone w/ pizza on top into it. My beautiful stone cracked on its maiden voyage.
On Christmas morning, he presented me with a new one wrapped in a boy. Smart boy
The only real pizza disaster the comes to mind is one time when my bf and I were making grilled pizzas. I guess I over-kneaded the dough, because it became so tough that it kept ripping when we tried to shape it into rounds for the grill. Between the rips and the tears the dough was basically in shreds and not even big enough for toppings. My bf doesn’t like when things go wrong in the kitchen, so he was a real crab about that one. I just took the blame, because it was probably my fault–it certainly taught me not to over knead in the future!
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I HAVE had a pizza disaster. Mine was trying to make calzones. I ended up in tears and left to go to the gym to work out the frustration!
Only disaster was setting my oven on fire (heating it up to MAKE pizza and not realizing there was a plastic container in the oven! No!! I don’t know why. Oven fire. Try cleaning melted plastic off of racks and oven bottom. YECH!!!
Though its not a “Homemade” pizza disaster, It was soon after we moved to a new place and i wasnt used to the new (to me, though its actually really old and really temperamental) and we had gotten a take home and bake pizza from Papa Murphy’s. I sat the pizza on top of the oven because there really wasnt anywhere else to place it while the oven was preheating. Since it takes a while for it to heat up I walked away only to come back about ten minutes later to find out that apparently the top of the oven gets very hot when the oven is on. So in the end half the pizza was already cooked most of the way but i still had to cook the other side… lets just say it didn’t turn out too well.
I can never get my pizza’s to slide off onto the stone. This looks great!
Definately have overkneeded the dough. My boyfriend was shaping a pizza and it kept sticking to the counter – so I suggested he add more flour. Too much flour later….. the chewiest/toughest pizza the world has ever seen.
I’ve had quite a few pizza disasters. I think the worst one was when I only had wax paper to try to do the transfer and the pizza was already topped and I dropped the whole thing onto the hot oven door.
Lately, I’ve been getting better at pizza because I’ll bake the crust first and then top it…meaning I can fold the dough to place it on the stone.
I once made a “thin-crust” pizza that was so thin and crispy, it was like a dry cracker. That wasn’t so great.
I’ve made a bunch of pizzas but it has definitely been a learning process. Lately my problems involve transferring the dough to the pizza stone. I just got a pizza stone but don’t have a peel yet. I’ve tried using a cookie sheet or just flipping it from the counter to the stone and praying that it doesn’t go everywhere. The crust is a little worse for the wear (big holes in the middle) but it still tastes good.
Actually, the biggest disaster turned out to be the best tasting pizza I’ve ever made. It was the first time I used my new pizza stone. I don’t have a peel, but didn’t think “how” I’d get the just-topped pizza onto the stone until I took the stone out. DISASTER! The toppings went everywhere and I had to scrape them off to save the pizza. I let the messy crust cook, re-topped the pizza (with the same toppings, so it was MESSY) but it was the YUMMIEST ever! I’ve tried to duplicate it but no luck, so far.
Not sure if it qualifies as a disaster, but I attempted some moist, chewy chocolate cookies whose recipe explicitly required them to be baked on parchment paper so the very-runny dough would not spread too far. I didn’t have parchment paper and attempted them anyway (and I think also overcooked them a bit). They were SO crispy and hard I was going to throw them away, but my boyfriend actually munched on them for a few days.
I used to live in an apartment with a stove that was possessed. I almost never used it because the thermostat was completely useless. No matter what temperature I set the oven to (150’ or 400’) whatever I was trying to make the outside would burn but the middle would be raw. I lost a few homemade pizzas in that oven early on before I realized the oven required an exorcism. Burnt toppings on raw dough. Bleck!
Well … one time I had a pizza (homemade) in the oven on the racks (because my husband likes crispy crust) and when it was done i pulled it out (or i should say tried with two spatulas) and it slipped and everything went all over my oven … cheese was so hard to get up and it was stringing through two racks … it was a nightmare and we have not done it since …
SO very cool!! man… I’ve tried using random things in the kitchen as a makeshift peel… bad idea… it ended in a loaf of bread half on the stone half off, and a burnt hand
booo!
I attempted to make a wonderful looking challah recipe. I honestly don’t know what went wrong. I tried the same recipe twice in two days and ended up with two massive bowls of challah “batter”. I tried everything I could think of. I tried to bake it anyway. What a disappointment. Challah always looks so wonderful but this try was a massive failure. What I don’t fail at is pizza! Pick Me!!!
using a sheet pan as a peel and the pizza ending up on the bottom of my oven
Once, when trying to make sandwich cookies, I must have rolled the dough too thin so the cookies burned when I baked them. Not a huge deal, right. I began afresh with a new batch, only to discover that my dad loved the burned cookies! He ate them all night, even when my second batch came out beautifully!
Biggest pizza disaster? The dreaded flopped over pizza because I don’t have a pizza peel and was (am still am) using two large spatulas. Talk about pizza slide! UGH the pizza stone mess!
Ha! Just last week I made a deep dish pizza for the second time (same recipe). Except I forgot that I halved the recipe the first time and ended up with a 3 in. tall deep dish. It was hilarious looking, still tasted delicious, but had to be served with extra marinara on the side to compensate for all that dough!
My worst pizza disaster was while trying to slide the pizza onto the stone. Instead of landing on the stone it landing on the bottom of the oven. I love making homemade pizza, I made six of the Saturday for my brother-in law’s birthday party.
My pizza disaster involved pregrilling pizza crusts for a large party where I wanted to have grilled asparagus pizza (cooking light recipe). However, when I later tried to finish the pizzas during the party (with the toppings and cheese added, I failed miserably. By the time the cheese was melted the crust was burned or the crust was perfect and the cheese was not (when I don’t precook the crust, it all works out perfectly). I scrambled for a while, and eventually just cooked them in the broiler, but it definitely made for a stressful party!
I would love a pizza peel!!! I’ve had a number of minor pizza disasters including: ending up with holey pizza dough and all my sauce pileing out of my deep dish pizza when trying to serve it.
I tried to transfer my last pizza from the peel to the baking stone and all the toppings went flying to the back of the oven…the pizza stayed firmly on my peel! I’d love to win this peel.
I once tried a barbeque chicken pizza recipe and my kids hated it!!!! I tasted it and didn’t like it either but tried to pretend it was good, not wanting to admit defeat. But finally had to give in and admit it was a disaster and throw it away!
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we bought store made crust, the kind that you roll out and my husband thought he was gonna be so cute and throw it, well it didn’t through all it did was get smaller when he tried to make it round, we had to buy another one so we could eat.
I have had a couple of pizzas slip through the grates in the oven, making it harder to get them out. However, my biggest baking disaster was when I was making a torte. I put the crust in the pan, and after cooking for a small amount of time under foil and rice, I went to take off the “pie weights”. I had some difficulty and ended up flipping the dough in half, half cooked, and had to redo the whole thing. Needless to say, I was not happy.
We bought a take-n-bake pizza from a warehouse club and it was too big to fit in the oven, so I tried to cut the uncooked pizza in half and the halves were actually still too big for any of our baking sheets. So we ended up eating hamburgers that night.
I love to make pizza and this looks like a fun thing to try out.
My biggest baking disaster, I think, was when I made a cake for my boyfriend’s birthday. The plan was for whipped cream on top–it was a recipe his mother made and he loved it. It was 100 degrees and I was stuck with a broken beater and one of those old fashioned hand beaters. The 25 people were very sweet about the horrifying stuff that ended up on top of the cake. It was gross.
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I don’t have a peel so I’ve been using parchment paper and a large wooden cutting board. There have been plenty of times when I shape the dough too big for the round stone and the toppings around the edge of the dough fall to the bottom of the oven.
Well, not exactly a disaster, but the dough turned out to be very rough – a whole wheat crust with a little TOO much texture. The pizza sauce and toppings were great – loaded with veggies. So, about a 50/50 split on success and failure.
I was broken-hearted when my attempt to make a favorite kind of cookies for my friend whom I lived with in Germany when I was an exchange student there years ago. I was so excited when she showed up that I forgot I had the cookies in the oven and I burnt them to a crisp! It took me days of redeeming myself with the best meals and cookies to make up for my oops:-)
I completely messed up some pumpkin scones – they were so wet I couldn’t even form them – I added so much extra flour they tasted like flour and I threw them all in the trash!
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I make pie crust, which many people fear, so often I barely need to be consious. Yeast doughs are what scare me. I have attempted pizza crust once. I must not have let it rise long enough, even though I gave it more time then the recipe indicated. It still tasted yeasty after I baked it. I am still searching for the courage to try again.
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My worst baking disaster…Baking desserts for church barbeque fund-raiser, had three “flops” in one day: German chocolate pound cake, regular pound cake, and red velvet cake, all baked in tube pan, all “boiled over” the top of the pan and onto the oven floor. Oven hasn’t had the opportunity to bake a tube pan cake since then! Sure have missed them, though…However…think the oven would do quite well with a super peel pizza peel!
No pizza dissasters (because i haven’t made it.) Baking-wise, it’s a toss up between the butterscotch blondie tarts that slowly errupted in my oven making ahuge mess, and the just baked gaint (4 oz!) chocolate chunk peanut butter cookies that went sliding from cookie sheet to floor as I tried to transfer them to a cooking rack. So sad!
I started making pizzas on a non-stick pizza pan with “perforated surface for crisping crust”. The thing is that I shaped my dough over the pan and I didn’t know until I took it out of the oven that the dough sunk into all of the holes of the pan! It was a mess trying to take it out without tearing the pizza. I ended up with a dotted crust. Looked kinda funny though when I finally got it out.
I would love the pizza peel! I have never made pizza at home, but I am looking to learn. My daughter’s soy allergy has made it impossible to order delivery or buy from the grocery. I haven’t had pizza in almost 9 months…
So no pizza disasters, but I did blow up brownies once. And I do mean blow up! Flaming bits of German chocolate brownie and glass all over the kitchen. I pulled the brownies out of the oven and set them on the stove too cool. Later, I turned on the wrong burner to make a cup of tea for my mother. A little while later we heard a loud pop and found the mess in the kitchen… not fun!
I tried to make a pizza with quinoa, and it got rock hard and tasted horrible!
I was just telling DH today while making a peperoni roll that I need a pizza peel! My biggest pizza disaster was when my pizza stone cracked in half while I was in the middle of putting a pizza on it. I’d had it for just over 3 years, and hadn’t had a problem with it before then. Needless to say I let the pizza finish cooking and when it was done, I had 2 half circles.
I live for pizza, I have it at least once a week.
The first time I made a spelt crust was a disaster though. I didn’t know that spelt doesn’t take to kneading as well as other flours and I handled it way to much. I couldn’t pull it without it tearing and in the end I had to settle with it being far to thick and it was mushy and gross and so disappointing
We make pizza frequently in my house. It’s so easy and you can use fresh ingredients. When it’s warm outside, we like to grill the pizza dough. But in cooler weather we use the oven. I have been meaning to spring for a pizza stone. Right now I use a foil lined cooked sheet and when it comes out I transfer it to a cutting board. Well, the last time I made pizza I got lazy and left the pizza on the cookie sheet. The first few slices were good, but when we went back for seconds the crust was slimy and soggy. Yuck!
My worst pizza disaster isn’t too bad – soggy crust and overdone toppings.
Worst pizza disaster…. using an aluminum pan and burning the bottom. Definitely have a pizza stone now
Oh my worse cooking I will remember for the rest of my life. I got married at 16 and did not know how to cook. Well I wanted to make meatballs for my husband. I had no idea if I cooked the meatballs first or just drop them in the sauce. Well I figure it had to be just drop them in. Yes, I was wrong and ended up with a gross mess and 29 years later I still remember it as if it was yesterday.
when my daughter was 2 we made english muffin pizza and i let her do it all herself, i turned to put the muffins in the oven to melt the cheese and everything went on the floor. i felt horrible after all the hard work she put in…
My pizza disaster could’ve been averted with this very product! LOL
I didn’t have anything to transfer my pizza with, and the wax paper/corn meal thing wasn’t working, so I tried to pick the whole pizza up and move it quickly…SPLAT.
All over the floor.
I’ve never had a pizza disaster, but this past Christmas, I made what was supposed to be a chocolate cream pie, but it never set (I could never figure out why) and instead, I had a thick chocolate milk in a pie crust. Yes, we threw it out.
Pizzas are ALWAYS getting stuck on my old wooden peels.
They then become very poor examples of calzones.
I put all the toppings (including sauce) on all 4 individual pizzas I was making for a dinner with friends. But my oven could only hold two pizzas at a time. By the time the second round of pizzas got into the oven, the sauce had made the dough a soggy mess. Since they were sitting on waxed paper, I had to put the waxed paper in the oven, too, which meant that the oven rack and the pizzas had wax melted to them. YUCK!
I have a very difficult time with pizza. The most recent disaster included the fire alarm going off and my kitchen filled with smoke…
Oh man, am I ever excited about this product!! Worst pizza disaster always involves 2nd degree burns on my forearms from trying to slide the darn pizza on the stone! Nothing ever worked. I’ve resorted to leaving the parchment paper (under the pizza) on the stone, and having a second set of hands to avoid the burns!
I have a SuperPeel & LOVE it! But, my worst pizza disaster involves the SuperPeel. It takes a bit of practice getting accustomed to the motion of picking up the dough & then depositing it on the hot stone. The first time I used it I did ok, but the second time I made a total mess of the pizza when I tried to slip it onto the hot stone. The pizza came off sideways & landed halfway upside down on the hot stone causing cheese to immediately burn on contact with the stone. I was able to salvage part of the pizza with a metal spatula & had to clean the stone with a scraper once it had cooled. However, I am now a pro with the SuperPeel and my family loves it when I make homemade pizzas. If I happen to be the winner, I will give it away to a deserving friend. Thanks for the giveaway!
my dad is the master of home pizza in our family and one time he forgot the cheese. that was a disaster for sure.
This would be an awesome thing to have! Our 8 year old loves making homemade pizza and we always end up using baking sheets which are Ok but not the most effective or easy to get them off of (especially by the time she’s done massaging and decorating it!).
Love to make pizza for the kids, but crust does not turn out very often.
I wanted the “Crispy Crust” so I attempted to put the pizza directly on the rack. Bad idea. It fell through. What. A Mess.
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My crusts aren’t necessarily a disaster … they”re just not very good.
Pizza Disaster: My pizza fused itself to my pizza stone with cheese and the pizza of the crust ripped off and stuck to the stone!!
Of COURSE I have had a pizza disaster and it is, in fact, directly related to the fact that I can never slide pizza onto a hot stone, hah. I’ve tried moving it and just having toppings fly off (and start sizzling on the stone), the dough fold over, etc. Not fun.
I haven’t really had any pizza disasters; I did make a whole wheat crust once and didn’t cook it quite all the way, but not a big deal.
Baking disaster, on the other hand, I have had.
Lemon lust cake. Ended up lemon lump cake.. very very bad. Tasted fine, but looked like after a kid playing with playdough covered in icing. haha. I will get it one day!
The first time I tried to make pizza I burnt the toppings but the crust was raw.
I’ve been making my own pizza crusts for a few years now. The recipe that I’ve been using calls for stone-ground whole wheat flour. Because of the coarseness of the flour, the dough doesn’t come out very sticky (or, at least that’s my explanation).
But a few months ago my husband and i decided to start trying alternative flours. We tried spelt first, and the dough came out so sticky that, unless there was a thick extra layer of flour around it, it couldn’t be rolled. I had to pull it out by hand, and it took forever! The first time it didn’t cook very well, either.
So when we tried it the second time, I thought that we should try what our bread-expert friend does, and put it on a super-hot pizza stone raw, already topped, and stick it under the broiler. Of course, I don’t have a pizza peel, and I thought I could just slid it from my wooden cutting board. Not so much. It ended up on the pizza stone in lumps with holes, sauce and cheese seeping through, some places where the dough was on top of the toppings. It tasted great, but it looked like an absolute disaster. (The next couple of times didn’t go well, either, and so now I’m moving on to other flours and giving up on spelt for the time being).
I’ve made pizza before where I forgot to precook the veg, and the tomato juice leaked down and made the crust so soggy that when we took it out half of it fell off the pan…
My worst disaster was when I decided to put a bunch of zucchini on the top of my pizza. I didn’t realize that this would make the crust a soggy mess. The outer crust was getting burnt while the middle wasn’t getting cooked at all!
I’ve never had a pizza disaster, but I have had a baking disaster. I was trying to make a simple chocolate chip cookie recipe at a friends house once, and I added the flour mixture but the dough didn’t seem to be getting any stiffer. I thought that was really strange, so I kept adding more….still not very stiff. I figured that I had enough flour though, so I spooned out my cookies and put them in the oven. I got them out when the timer went off and they had all flattened out into one HUGE cookie. Come to find out, my friend had put her powdered sugar in her flour canister and had not told me! haha I felt like an idiot, but I was glad that I wasn’t going crazy!
Love the pizza peel! A few years ago, I was making dinner for my hubby – a beautiful homemade pepperoni pizza, from scratch. As I was holding the pizza (on a round pan) in one hand, and adjusting the oven rack with the other (bad move), I somehow managed to drop the pizza, which landed upside down on the inside of the oven door. We ended up ordering pizza and I spent the night scrubbing out the oven.
I tried tossing the dough on to the hot pizza stone and it ended up folding on itself – the stone was so hot I couldn’t re-do – the dough was already starting to cook in that weird form. thankfully my technique is much better now
Not a disaster by any means, but my pizzas always come out misshapen and ugly due to the lack of a pizza peel. I’ve been wanting to buy a pizza peel for the longest time, but I keep holding off because there are just too many things that I want for my kitchen!
I love pizza. I guess my pizza disaster would be when I had anchovies on a salad and thought it was delicious. I did not think about how much to put on a pizza. So, I decided to put them on my half of a pizza, and it was sooo salty that I couldn’t eat the pizza. UGH
I cant think of a pizza diaster BUT oh boy how about a rice pudding diaster. i was making a big bowl of rice pudding like i had done a million times but this time is just seemed to be taking forever so i uped the baking temp and 5 minutes later if that i hear my husband say i think i hear sizzling coming from the oven. I said it cant i just turned it up BUT as soon as i opened the oven door smoke came barreling out and filled the kitchen and then proceeded to fill the whole house. this continued for another hr. everything i did to clean up the mess and controll the smoke wasnt working so needless to say my house had a nice hint of smokiness to it for about a week and it took forever to get the smell out when i would use my oven.
My pizza ( and baking) disaster happened when I had a bunch of people over for pizza. All was ready and into the oven they went. Right in the middle of the baking process, my oven decided to quit on me! Thank god for handy husbands who managed to quickly rewire something( don’t ask me what) and at least got enough heat back to finish off the pizzas-phew!
My last pizza disaster involved me forgetting about it and leaving it in the oven too long….we had something else for dinner that night!
we usehed to make pizza using a pizza pan–once the crust fused with the pan–we couldn’t get it off for anything—we literally had to soak it in water and then scrape at it. No pizzza for dinner that night–just a big mess!!
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I’ve been wanting to try this for quite some time!
pizza mishaps?? ::knock on wood:: !! none yet, just reheated some ammmaaazing Zachary’s chicago style pizza (from oakland, ca) tho!
a pizza peal would be soo useful! it would encourage me to buy a pizza stone…the only mishaps i ever have are underdone crusts!
worst pizza disaster: over cooked crust and undercooked toppings (how does that happen!) or vice versa.
some of the calzone horror stories above though have me scared to try them!
biggest pizza disaster? trying to make a deep dish in a spring form pan..well, the pizza wasnt the mistake, trying to take away the spring form before letting it set for a few minutes was the mistake!
I’ve done the (apparently) very common mistake trying to slide the pizza in but having it end up on the bottom of the oven. Thanks for a chance at this giveaway.
I don’t know how to do a link to my tweet, so I copied/pasted it here:
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Thankfully, no pizza disasters, but it is near impossible to get a handformed pizza on a stone that is already in the oven…hence the reason I would love to win.
Worst disaster? Those refrigerated slice and bake cookies. Needed to make individual fruit pizzas, so thought that would be a quick way to start. Let’s just say, they oozed together, and then off the edge of the pan, onto the bottom of the oven and they were still raw at this point! Scraped what I could off the pans and outside for the raccoons, cleaned the oven, got up early and made my own sugar cookies from scratch. Received tons of compliments on them!
I don’t have a pizza disaster, but I have a baking disaster. I had just moved in with my now-husband, and his friend had just gotten married, so they came and stayed with us for a weekend. I thought it would be nice to make breakfast, so I found a recipe for orange scones in a magazine, which I made the night before and stuck in the fridge. I didn’t adjust the baking time for the dough being cold, and the entire center was completely raw. The edges (like an inch in) were done, but the middle was goo. I was so embarrassed, and the new bride (who already made me feel like she thought that I was an idiot) was kind of mean about it. It was so awful! I’ve never been more embarrassed – I was trying to impress his friends with these great scones I made, and it totally made me look like a complete mess of cook. I’ve gotten WAY better over the years, though!
When i was a teen I was babysitting for my cousins. My aunt told me to make them a frozen pizza. When I preheated the oven I didn’t know she stored her pots and pans in there and I melted the plastic off the handles. I felt horrible!
My worst pizza disaster happened when I had first started using a pizza stone. I had assembled the whole pizza, cheese, sauce, toppings and all but when I tried to transfer the pizza to the hot stone, disaster ensued. I couldn’t get it to come off of the peel. Panic started setting in as I tried wiggling it off, using spatulas, my hands…all while the heat of the oven cooked my face. To make a long story short, the pizza ended up folding onto itself and in the process, dripping mass quantities of sauce and cheese all over my 500 degree oven. Defeat.
Mine was a baking disaster. I filled the cake pan too high, and it spilled over the sides onto the bottom of the oven. It was such a mess! Burnt cake batter all over my oven. It took a long time to come clean and every time I would bake I would have a horrible burning smell from any batter that was still in the oven.
I made a pizza dough with the same recipe as always, except I substituted wheat flour this time. It was too salty and chewy! To compensate for the saltiness I didn’t put enough salt in my tomato sauce, and well.. it was just all together disgusting. But my sweetheart housemates shoved it down their throats anyway, cause that’s dinner.
Oh I have had many but the one that “hurt” the most is when my dough went over the stone onto the oven floor and the whole house smoked up and FAST!!! Huge pain to clean up!ACK!!
My worst Pizza Disaster was when I tried to cook 2 pizza’s at the same time I put one on the top rack and 1 on the bottom rack then I went down in the basement to clean up why they cooked , came back and my whole Kitchen was full of Smoke. The one on the bottom was just to close to the burner and boy was it Burnt! Needless to say we couldnt eat the other one cause it tasted like Smoke. So Dumb of Me!!. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Yes, I have had a pizza disaster before! Let’s just say, a rushed week night is not the time to “throw together” a homemade pizza dough…at least not for this chick!
Have I ever had a pizza disaster? YES! It was an oozing, pizza nightmare. While pregnant and on bed rest, my family brought over take & bake pizza from an amazing spot in LA that I die for. I preheated the oven, placed the pizzas on the rack, and viola!…they literally seeped, dripped and oozed all over my oven. I neglected to read the directions and use a stone or baking sheet. ugh. Mess…and no dinner!:(
Oh, I would LOVE this….it looks awesome!
Pizza disaster…my husband ruined our pizza peel right after we got it. He thought you were supposed to CUT the pizza on it. A thin pizza and a strong pizza cutter…it went right through that peel. Splinters everywhere!
See, I need this!
I tweeted.
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I don’t remember the circumstances, but I certainly remember most of the contents of my pizza ending up on the bottom of my oven. Night-mare!
no real pizza disasters but a baking disaster was I once added 3 times the amount of baking soda to a recipe then what was called for… that was interesting lol.
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Can’t say I’ve had a disaster with pizza. Would love to have the pizza peel. My biggest disaster was trying to get cream puffs just right – not too done and not doughy inside.
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My worst pizza disaster came after watching Bobby Flay grilling pizzas. I decided it sounded like a great idea and I set off to try it. My grill is not very great and I ended up with charred crust on my first attempt. The second attempt the dough dripped through the grates! Oh yeah, and don’t try a pizza stone on the grill, not a good plan either. Grilling a pizza was not my greatest cooking event…..
oh pizza disasters! I think this has probably happened to lots of people, but… when putting a pizza straight into the oven, and not on a pan or anything… when you go to pull it out, I often (you’d think i’d learn…) have half of the pizza spill through the grates and all over in the oven making a horrible smell and mess and making it so that I now have to repair the pizza. pans for me, for now on!
I have only had the kind of pizza disaster that comes with putting ingredients that don’t really work together on the pizza. But at leats I try!
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I don’t think we have had a pizza disaster, we make homemade all of the time so we have it down:) One time we made bread from BBA, a gorgeous loaf, took 2 days, and we forgot the salt. It was tasteless, but pretty:)
What a great giveaway! I definitely am in need of a pizza peel! Pizza disaster? I’d have to say trying to cook it on the grill once… it stuck to the grates like crazy & was a total flop. Ended up having to trash the whole thing.
Pardon me whiel I wipe the drool off my chin… I’ve been making pizzas for years, but about 6 months ago I forgot to poke holes in the crust. The mother of all bubbles formed and grew to about 4 inches high. All of the toppings from half of the pizza slid off onto the bottom of the oven, resulting in lots of smoke and my wife fanning the smoke alarm with a towel for a good 10 minutes. To make matters worse, I was cooking for guests – DOH!
Only one pizza disaster where I started dropping it as I took it out of the oven but caught it against a wall and it folded in half! Ha, a pizza turnover I guess.
The worse experience I’ve had was when my husband kept pestering me and saying he wanted one of those electric pizza makers. Everytime he looked at the Sunday paper ads he always brought it up when he saw it advertised. So when Christmas came I got him one. Where is it now? In the closet. We used it maybe two or three times and he didn’t like the pizza so we went back to the oven which doesn’t have much of an even heat. I actually looked at this very same thing just a couple days ago but talked myself out of it. Saw it advertised with bread making items which is what I was looking at. Would love to have it. By the way, glad to have found your website. I grew up about 60 miles from Pittsburgh and miss all the good breads and sweets–especially nut rolls.
My worst pizza making experience was right after I formed the crust on my wood cutting board, added toppings and transfered the raw (pizza) dough to a piece of parchment. The dough stuck, the pie was ruined, and of course I had to start from scratch. This is when I realized the importance of baking on a pizza stone!
Every.single.time I attempt to make homemade pizza it is a disaster
I need to find a good dough recipe, but just can’t find one.
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Thankfully it wasn’t a full on disaster, but we had a few friends over for dinner and I was making three pizzas at the same time. Between running out of counter space and trying to get the pizza from where I rolled it out onto the pizza stone it was an interesting experience. They were just oddly shaped but thankfully none went overboard! =)
Even as a tomato lover, I couldn’t find the love for a pizza I topped with sliced tomato, that ended up a pizza-flavored ‘pudding’. I’ve since learned how to handle fresh tomato for topping the pizza pies!
The second time my wife and I tried to make pizza, we tried to make do with a cutting board as a pizza peel. The dough came off with much difficulty and we were left with a large, thick piece of dough on the pizza stone – it looked like a stromboli, except all of the filling was on the top. What a mess.
As the dough plopped onto the stone, it also cracked and removing the ‘pizza’ blob from the broken stone was a challenge.
My biggest pizza disaster ever was completely my fault and very dumb. We were camping and we were borrowing a buddies pop up camper. We had a great idea after a couple drinks to cook a pizza on the stove top. We forgot about it, it burnt up and created the worst smell and mess inside that camper. We were never allowed to use it again
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I guess my major disaster is never using a stone to bake the pizza, even though I have one. If I have a peel I would definitely use it!
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I’ve tried pizza on the grill and had all of my toppings slide through the grates, oops!
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What a mess we made last night baking pizza. Normally we dust the stone with salt and cornmeal, but decided to throw salt on the peel instead. We topped the pizza, but when we tried to slide it off, we realized the salt had wicked the moisture from the dough and it stuck terribly to the peel. We had to use 2 spatulas to pry it off the peel onto the stone. Ugly, but tasty anyway. No more salt on the peel!
My pizza disaster was my attempt at grilled pizza. I put the dough on grill and things were going great until I tried to flip it. Evidently I should have made mini pizzas because my full size pizza crust folded over on itself and fell apart. I was able to salvage part of it to put on a pan in the oven. Maybe I’ll attempt it again this summer.
i haven’t tried to make homemade pizza yet… but my worst baking moments are when i forget key ingredients… nothing like all that time & work that go into baking to find in the end you left out something crucial to the end product. so sad.
hmm … i don’t have a very exciting story except that I once tried to make pizza with my children. I bought one of those mesh-thing and pan. We pressed the dough so hard that the dough stuck to the mesh and wouldn’t come off after it was cooked. We all sat around the table and ate the pizza by peeling it off bit by bit … we laugh and had fun. Tho, have not made pizza since
oh my gosh. I LOL’d at the site of tossing a pizza onto a hot stone. Mine usually sags in the middle (kinda like my body!) and it’s pretty pathetic!
When I’m in a hurry, I use those canned pizza doughs (shhh, don’t tell anyone!). Recently they changed and now have a thin crust. I didn’t read the package and cooked the normal way. It burned. Oh my! What a mess.
My worst pizza disaster was when I went to pull out an especially perfect round piece of love from the oven and it slid off the rack all over the oven and floor! I still have mozzarella in the hinges. We ate it anyway
Worst disaster had to do with the lack of a peel. I used to use a plastic cutting board. Until one day half of it stuck to the board and half of it fell off the board into the bottom of the oven. Was a mess.
I haven’t tried to make homemade pizza yet, but its on my short list! My most recent disaster, however, was weighing flour (for cookies), instead of using measuring cups! I just bought a scale and couldn’t wait to use it! The cookies never did spread
duh
No pizza disasters here, probably because I have only made a handful from scratch. My biggest baking disaster? Deciding it wasn’t that big of a deal to substitute a round bake pan for the square one called for in a coffeecake recipe. Hello oozing cake batter volcano. I ended up with a weird tasting mess of a cake, and a cookie sheet (hastily thrust under the cake) covered in blackened piles of batter overflow.
Yes! I tried to transfer a pizza from the back of a baking sheet to a heated pizza stone in my oven, and the pizza ripped apart in multiple places. It stuck to the baking pan and didn’t want to transfer at all, so we had to literally fold it in half and ‘toss’ it onto the preheated baking stone- it was a nightmare and I almost cried! It tasted okay, but the pizza was ugly as sin…
I’m afraid my biggest pizza disaster is just when my dough doesn’t turn out. I have a Mario Batelli pizza pan which does work great but I hate having to preheat it, and I’d love a way to just bake them on the racks!
Once I used fresh mozzarella and fresh tomatoes – to this day I don’t know if it was the fresh cheese or the tomatoes that leaked juice all over the pizza, giving me a soggy, wet mess. Not appetizing at all!
oh yes, i have had my shares of pizza disasters. My husband likes to load and I mean LOAD his pizza and the ones it’s that loaded it is very difficult to get it in the oven without making a huge mess. Even the parchament paper can’t catch it all.
My worst pizza disaster was when I cleverly baked the pizza until I thought it was done enough to slip out of the pan and crisp directly on the rack. The edges were fine, but the middle was still soggy and became a huge saggy, then gloppy, then burning, mess on the floor of the oven. I ended up with a thin ring of perfect pizza and a horrific mess in the oven and all around the electric element. After it cooled down enough, I spent more than 3 hours scraping and cleaning up the oven floor and element. *shudders* The only up side was that my oven has never looked so beautiful as it did after that massive scrubbing. My upper arms ached the next day!
My first adventure with my pizza stone was a disaster. I don’t have a peel so when I tried to shake it off of the pan, it folded over and pretty much landed upside down so all the cheese and goodies were at the bottom. That stone had to be trashed!
My biggest pizza disaster is that I usually order pizza instead of making it. I want to learn how to make the dough and this pizza peel would really help out. Thanks for the chance to win.
i didn’t let the pizza dough rise long enough, so when i baked it the dough took over the pizza, the pan & my oven.
I’ve turned the oven on so high that it made the fire alarm in my apartment go off! Obnoxious time cooking but fabulous time eating!
The first time I made home-made pizza dough, I decided to make a thin-crust pie, and I loaded it up with extra cheese, pepperoni, olives and onions.
And then I tried to pick it up to put it on the hot stone.
I’m not usually such a doofus, but I didn’t have a peel and apparantly I didn’t have a brain that day, either.
The pizza split apart and all my goodies wound up on the floor and the counter and the oven door.
Since then, I’ve been using a cardboard peel I have to make each time I want to bake a pie.
So you’ll understand why I hope I win lol.
Tweet: http://twitter.com/AsTheNight/status/8256459682.
I love making pizza…now. When I first started I was terrified and I could never get the dough to stay stretched out in the pan. So, I would stretch it and it would shrink back into the pan, leaving a doughy, blob of sauce covered dough in the middle of each corner. I have since become more familiar with the process, so no more disasters. That pizza piel would come in awfully handy though….
My pizza disaster was that I made my dough from scratch and must have forgotten something as the dough turned out as hard as a rock
My worst cooking experience was went I tried to make meringue with Splenda, they taste sooo bad.
I tried to make bagels and completely left out the yeast so my bagels of course did not turn out. They were flat hard discs.
My greatest pizza disaster is that I’ve never made my own dough! I’ve always just bought pre-packaged pizza crusts. I’d love to take a leap and make my own.
I totally had a pizza fail last night! And all I needed was a pizza peel! I made the dough, and the recipe said I should easily be able to transfer the dough to the hot stone using a floured cutting board if I didn’t have a peel. It definitely wasn’t easy, as hubby and I spent 15 minutes figuring out how to salvage the pizza. In the end, the pizza tasted great, was a little free-form, and the stone cracked in the oven!
I used to buy frozen pizzas and burn the crusts every time. Now I make pizza dough from scratch and pay more attention.
I’ve had a disaster or two… the biggest one was using my new pizza stone for the first time. I did NOT realize you had to break it in and my pizza stuck. Bad.
And once while baking pizza, I was putting away the flour, back to the top shelf when it fell, covering me and my black dachshund with flour. He was less that thrilled and ran through the house leaving a dust trail behind him.
I’ve had many pizza disasters, but the one that stands out in my head would have to be my first every pizza made myself at the pizza shop I used to work at, yeah, pizza shop disaster. I made a pie, that I thought was fantastic, it turns out, I forgot to take the previously made pizza out of the conveyor-type pizza oven, thus burning the pizza to an absolute crisp. Not only was it burnt, but in the pizza tossing process, I forgot to ‘dock’ the dough, thus, multiple air bubles formed and the pie toppings ended up all over one side of the pizza due to a shift caused by the air-bubble. Not a pretty site, but a learning experience nonetheless.
Well, I can’t say that I’ve had any disasters but that’s only because my husband managed a pizza place for a few years… he does all the pizza making at our house.
Most of my baking disasters have ended with super messy ovens…. things spilled, overflowed from their containers
I used to work at a cafe making small pizzas. Several years later, I decided to make pizza at home, but I didn’t have any of the fancy schmancy supplies, like peels, so I thought I would try to use the back of a cookie sheet. The pizza dough stuck on my sheet, mostly, and when I tried to transfer the pizza to my baking stone, I ended up with a mess of toppings, and very little dough on my pizza stone and the bottom of my oven. It was an epic mess.
No disasters yet so I’m do for one!
Pizza disaster…haha so my husband wanted a calzone and I figured I would make him one from scratch with using a whole wheat pizza crust recipe…so I made it and then when it came to it being ready to be rolled out oh goodness it was so thick and then I made it and my husband looked at it and said why is it brown? I said well I used whole wheat flour he said oh…then he began to eat and could barely stomach the taste and I think it was because I used the stone milled wheat flour from King Arthur…so now I’ve learned my lesson when ever I make pizza dough for calzone’s or pizza I use plain old unbleached flour!
My biggest pizza disaster came the first time we tried to use our new pizza stone. I had prepped the pizza on a large cookie sheet, but apparently didn’t use enough flour to keep the dough from sticking (I didn’t know about the wonderfulness that is cornmeal). After many attempts of shimmying the pizza down the sheet with a spatula, we finally just tried shaking the pizza off – which worked, but it fell halfway off the stone and onto the hot rack! What a mess.
Needless to say, this pizza peel could come in quite handy.
biggest pizza disaster so far would be burning the pizza in the oven. my biggest pizza disaster to come will probably be when i try to make pizza dough from scratch.
Not really a pizza disaster, but a calzone disaster. We were using a baking stone, and I had three calzones on there, so I had filled the stone, but about 3/4 of the way through baking the stone cracked in half, right under one of the calzones, and it oozed ALL over the oven. Not only did I lose my favorite baking stone, but I had the pleasure of cleaning a very cheesy oven.
Awesome! I’ve been eyeing the Super Peel on my Amazon for a while now. Let’s see. Worst pizza disaster? Not to toot my own horn but I’m pretty good at pizza making. But I’m a total newb when it comes to using my pizza stone. You really need a pizza peel to use a stone. If you don’t you get one shot to plop the pizza on the hot stone and forget about trying to move it once it’s on the stone. I tried. I failed. And burned my fingers. Needless to say I need the Super Peel! Thanks for fabulous giveaway. I hope I win!
I twattered!
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First time we made pizza, I made it on a cutting board because that was all I had (no pizza peel) with Trader Joe’s dough. I must have not put enough flour/corn meal down and it totally stuck. I ended up knocking half of the toppings on the floor trying to get it to the now hot baking stone. Very smooth
I love to bake my pizzas in a super hot over… I was multitasking one day and after folding a batch of laundry I remembered I had put a pizza in the oven. When I went to retrieve it from the oven it looked like a chard mess! oops!
I haven’t had a major pizza disaster but came close once. Our pizzas in the over were almost done but we wanted to brown the cheese a bit more so I turned the oven up. Meanwhile we both got interested in a TV show that was on and kinda forgot about the pizza in the oven. Needless to say, the pizza on top had some crispy cheese, almost too crispy, LoL.
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I had the pizza already to go onto the heated grill and it flopped and twisted and looked…well you can imagine…a real mess, I tried to salvage it but it went in the trash and had to make another.
Burning the crust!
Got the pizza stone, been wanting a pizza peel… because you’re right, trying to ‘throw’ a pizza onto a hot stone is no easy task. Once it’s on, it’s on. No moving it even if it’s partially hanging off the edge. That sure made a mess of the oven.
I haven’t had any pizza baking disasters, but my mom has. She somehow flipped an entire homemade pizza out of the pan, topping side down onto the hot oven door when taking it out of the oven. It was a huge mess!
I don’t have a pizza story but I ded have a cooking disater when I first started cooking. I was going to fry something and the oil caught on fire and being a rookie I put it in the sink and turned the faucet on. Big mistake!! The shades and curtains caught on fire and the house was filled with smoke. Thankfuly I was able to put it out before there was any real damage.
there is nothing more disappointing than working all day to clean house, plan a delicious gourmet pizza dinner for friends and family, preparing homemade dough, simmering sauce all afternoon, preparing toppings, pouring wine, deciding at the last minute to grill the pizzas, and having the dough completely fall apart all over the grate. i don’t know WHAT happened to my crust, but it was way too thin, littered with holes AND then burnt.
it was a sad dinner party.
we made do.
lucky i have such gracious friends.
and the local pizza shop on speed dial.
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Just last week, I tried making pizza dough for the first time. I’ve made one without yeast before-but this time-it was a real bread recipe. I was having 10 girls over for a girls’ night and made the dough ahead of time so it could rise. Turns out-I forgot that 100 degree water (what the recipe called for) is not boiling-it’s warm. I was thinking celsius instead of farenheit! And I’m american-I have no excuse! So-I killed the yeast-and the pizza didn’t rise (so it was too thick)and wouldn’t stretch-so it was falling apart…sigh-lesson learned!
My worst pizza making disaster and I know it’s already been mentioned: I made a pizza on a baking sheet and when I slid it onto the stone it stuck and ended up on the bottom of the oven instead.
I was not baking per say, i was cooking and I burned my parents kitchen. I was cooking fried plantains and thought I had turned the burner off but I turned it on high. So a grease fire started. Luckily my father was there, who was a firefighter and was able to put the fire out. Only good thing was my mother got a new kitchen and paint job around the downstairs.
I don’t have a pizza diaster story but I was baking some pumpkin bars in the oven when I was cleaning up my kitchen and noticed I forgot to add the eggs to my batter. Needless to say the bars went into the trash.
My only pizza disaster was when I tried to remove a supreme pizza that was stuck on the baking stone and the whole thing went belly up againest the back of the oven and into my convection fan. My oven and kitchen smelled like burned crust and cheese for weeks.
What a fun giveaway. All of my baking diasters involve some sort of distraction that makes me forget something is int he oven. And then I remember when I smell something burning. So my husband was “gracious” enough to buy me a digital timer to help me “remember”.
I dropped the pizza on the floor one time when removing it from the hot oven. Luckily that time it was a store-bought frozen pizza – I would have been really upset if it was one of my homemade pizzas!
I have always wanted one of these! I haven’t had a lot of pizza disasters, thankfully, however now we have a new challenge! My daughter was recently diagnosed with celiacs disease. Now we are figuring out how to make pizza gluten free. Thanks for your giveaway!
I can’t think of a pizza disaster that I have had, so none of them could have been too bad. Some cooking disasters I have had include burning things on pans that I *still* can’t get off (4 years later!) and forgetting about things in the oven. ‘Normal’ cooking disasters that I think everyone must have at some point if they cook at all…
I have been wanting to try one of these pizza peels. I have a pizza stone, but it is cheap and somewhat thin and I am terrified of breaking it or burning my hands when I put food on it in the oven.
I’ve definitely made bad pizza dough before and I also frequently burn pine nuts, which I like to top my pizzas with!
My worst pizza nightmare was putting the pizza in the oven on the stone and having the stone shatter. It was takeout from there.
This looks great!
My worst pizza disaster resulted in some very wholly, uneven pizza dough. I did a terrible job at rolling it out, and it was just no good! I have improved, but I am still not great. Your crust recipe is next on my list to try, thought!
My wife does all of the baking, but has taught me how to check for doneness. I’ve never had a disaster, actually I am now better than her at knowing when cookies, cakes, and pizza are done.
Maybe I’ll try some baking sometime
I can’t think of a pizza disaster, but when I was in H.S. Home Ec, my girlfriend & I started our Weiner Bake on fire.
Sadly, my “pizza disaster” was not when I was making it, rather it was when I ordered it! I ordered it online, which is so cool!, and I had people over so we each made our custom order pizzas. We waited and waited and waited. I finally called and the pizza place had never gotten my order!! So, with a house full of people, we went to get burrito’s instead. Boo.
My worst pizza disaster is actually just plain old burning it when reheating. We use our castiron pan to reheat pizza because it gives it a much crispier crust than a toaster oven can. But unfortunately, the castiron pan doesn’t “ding” when it’s done and we always end up burning it
Yes, the disaster did not have to do with homemade pizza, but rather frozen pizza… The kids were hungry and pizza it was.. These pizzas are the ones that have cardboard under them for some reason.. Well guess what I did? I forgot to take the cardboard off the pizza and baked it that way. what a horrible Mess. The pizza fuzzed to the cardboard.. I was so upset. Then a few days later..I did it again. I will never live this down.
It was make your own pizza night…and wonderful, fresh and homemade ingredients…the whole family looks forward to it…although I left dad in charge of the boys while I battled rush hour traffic on my way home…they all had their pizzas in the oven and ready to go when I walked in the door and the house smelled wonderful.
As we sat down to eat and dad brought the pizzas to the table, I couldn’t help but notice the strange look and really sweet smell…and then figured out that they made pizzas with chocolate, marshmallows, caramel and anything else you wouldn’t eat for dinner…all 3 of my “boys” assured me that this is very healthy since the topping packages used words like “all natural” and “low fat”…needless to say, dad can’t be left unsupervised any longer! (I had a salad)
Luckily, no disasters!
would love to have it!
My worst Pizza disaster just happened. We love making pizza and I was in a little bit of a rush. I used a jar of sauce thinking my kids wouldn’t notice. It was absolutely disgusting. None of us could eat it.
Got the stone in the oven to preheat, rolled out the crust, loaded it with toppings, realized I had no way of putting the pizza onto the stone w/o getting burned or getting toppings everywhere! I ended up folding it onto itself and making a calzone
my pizza disaster is half was completely undercooked and stuck to the pan…not edible.
no pizza disasters so far!! ::throws salt over shoulder:: although i imagine if i ever own a pizza peal ill accidentally overshoot the pizza stone and have pizza baked onto the oven racks!!
worst pizza disaster — using old stale mozzarella!! BLEH! the onnneee time I refrained from eating half the cheese before it made it to the oven
My first attempt at cupcakes – put in way too much batter and ended up with burnt cupcakes at the bottom of my oven floor.
My most wretched cooking disaster was the first time I made brownies as a kid. I melted the chocolate and shortening, then stirred in the sugar and eggs, never removing the pan from the heat because the recipe didn’t specify to do so.
My brownies had chunks of hard, fried egg marbled all through them. Mom, my sister and I wouldn’t eat them but my dad and brother eventually finished them all. I didn’t get teased about them forever, either. That’s love!
The worse pizza disaster I’ve had was when I first moved into my own apartment and really started cooking for myself. I had bought a frozen pizza and then forgot to put it in the freezer. I discovered this a few hours later and decided to bake the pizza as I didn’t want it to go bad. I just tossed it in the oven (without preheating and on the rack, not on a pan or stone). A few minutes later, I smell something burning. I open the oven to discover that my pizza had somehow fallen through the rack and was now dripping cheese and sauce onto the bottom of the oven, of course burning when it was there. Since then, I always use a pizza pan or stone.
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My husband I just recently made pizza (http://starvingkitten.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/two-pizzas/) and it went well. We have learned from our mistakes. One mistake we made in the beginning was playing with the dough too much. The gluten in the dough gets going and it becomes really hard to spread it out. As you try to maneuver it, it continues to try to reshape itself into a ball. Once this starts happening it’s impossible to get it to spread out evenly and that’s pretty much key to a good pizza!
I haven’t had “disasters” with pizza-making so far. The biggest problem for me I guess is the crust and sauce sticking quite well to the pizza stone after baking. Thanks for the offer!
My pizza disaster involved homemade dough and runny filling for a stromboli that ultimately looked like road-kill. Fortunately, it was still very tastey!!
This looks really cool. I haven’t had any disasters with pizza but I did make banana bread once and filled the pans a little to much and it spilled over onto my oven. What a MESS!!!!!!!!
I see my disaster has happened to many others, comforting…I think not! I guess I put too much corn meal on the pizza stone cause when I took it out of the oven I tilted it just a little, I swear! and off it came. I too would have scooped it up and eaten it anyway if it had not landed mostly upside down. So close, so hungry…..Thanks for a great giveaway!
worst pizza: my first attempted at grilled pizza…too thin, got holes, turned out to be more of a cracker than a pizza!!
best pizza: when i mastered grilled pizza…a delicious tomato, basil, black olive!!
I’ve wanted to try these peels, so thanks for the giveaway. Our worst pizza disaster happened last year when Michael was taking a piping hot Chicago style stuffed pizza out of the oven. He was using his pro pan grabber, but it didn’t grab real well that time and he dropped the pan, which bounced and then flipped upside down on the tile floor. We scraped the pizza off the floor and salvaged as much as we could, but um, it was a major mess. Sauce splattered everywhere.
UGH! My pizza disaster was when I was making individual pizzas for my daughter and her friends. They each made their own pizzas, so there was a lot of taking some pizzas out and putting other pizzas in. I didn’t know the stone couldn’t handle the heat, but it seemed to be doing just fine. I was putting the last of the pizzas on the stone, when the stone cracked right in half in the oven! ACK! Needless to say, I had to finish the pizzas on a cookie tray. It worked out in the end, but it was pretty scarey when it *POPPED*!
I made a terrible pizza once with barbecue sauce and chicken. I have no idea what went wrong, but we threw most of it out. maybe too much barbecue sauce?
I am actually an amateur to my own pizza making because I have this fear of yeast and, until Christmas, I was lacking a rolling pin (I used wine bottles….sad, I know). However, I currently have a few of the acclaimed “perfect pizza crust” blog recipes gathered and I am ready to try it out! I would LOVE to try it out on the Pizza Peel!
My baking disaster happened a few years ago. After several unsuccessful attempts, I had finally baked a beautiful loaf of homemade bread. Unfortunately I placed it on my kitchen table to cool and left to take some clothes out of the dryer. When I returned my 2 year old Lab ‘puppy’ was finishing it off! I was never able to replicate that recipe again. Darn!
I tried to make a pizza crust with one of those Jiffy mixes, it would not roll out, kept shrinking up, and totally burnt – setting off the smoke alarm. It was awful! Made from scratch is soooo much easier!!
Oh pizza disaster well it was actually a pre-pizza disaster. I was planning pizza for supper but go the dough started late. Then I had to leave the house. So I put the dough in my warm oven….and was gone longer than expected.
Can you say dough-splosion? My kids thought it was hilarious.
We make pizza pretty much weekly, so we’ve had challenges on occasion. =) Tonight’s was using a new dough recipe that browns more quickly on the bottom than I’m used to. I was able to salvage the edges of my daughters’ pizza, but the middle was a lost cause. We have a peel, but not as cool as this one, and we’ve definitely experienced the fun of edges of dough folding over or under on the way to the stone.
Last disaster I had in the kitchen was while re-heating leftovers. The entire toaster oven caught fire, billowing smoke and flames out of every opening. Luckily I had a fire extinguisher nearby (as everyone should have in the kitchen) and put that fire out but good! I love a good pizza pie from our own kitchen, but I find the pre-made pizza shells from PA MAC in the Strip District in Pittsburgh are far less work for me than homemade ones. I like to brush it with olive oil and cook it until crispy. Then some marinara sauce, grated fresh mozzarella and provolone, and margarita pepperoni! Now I’m hungry…
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