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Random Slice Wednesday: How to avoid a hot, cheesy pizza disaster inside your home oven

6/18/2025

plate with a slice of spinach tomato feta pizza

Wednesday is Hump Day, where we slide down the remainder of the work week into weekend pizza. Wednesday in the North End of Boston is Prince Spaghetti Day (right, Anthony?). And Wednesday here along the Pizza Coast is Random Pizza Post Day.

What does that even mean? I’ll tell you at the end. First, let’s get to the bidness.

Last week, I received an email from a reader in Portugal who claimed to have, quote, a stupid question:

“I can put the pizza onto the steel or stone using the peel, but how do you use the peel to get it back off once it's baked? I mean, you can't slide it under the pizza because the wood is too thick. (I told you it was a stupid question, but then, I don't cook any more than I have to.)"

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How to make an amazing pizza in your home oven for under three bucks.

6/13/2025

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Close up of one quarter of a homemade cheese pizza

Welcome to Free The Pizza's "Cheap The Pizza, Part II." The pizza in the picture above? I did it “all wrong.” Still looks pretty good, right? Tasted pretty good, too.

To recap last week’s rant: it’s crazy that there are “thought leaders” claiming it’s cheaper to eat out than to cook at home. My counter example: pizza. If you’re interested, you can make a 12-inch pizza at home with an ingredients cost of under $3.00--literally, about $2.50. That pizza, hot and fresh from your home oven, tastes better than one from your local joint that charges $14.00. It’s also easy to make, and I promised to show you how. BONUS: If you’re an experienced home pizzamaker, this is an interesting exercise and it's fun. (I’ve been doing this all week long. I’m having a blast. It doesn’t get old.)

Today is about two things: 1.) an overview of the process, and 2.) a simple pizza dough that requires no kneading and demands only a few minutes of hands-on time. Next week, we’re baking the pizza on an upside-down cast-iron skillet in my home oven.

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Want a great pizza for under three bucks any time you feel like it? Meet: your home oven and a stupidly simple recipe.

6/7/2025

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Careful. I might be on a harangue. I’ve stumbled onto nonsense and horse hockey. I got angry. You’re gonna laugh. There’s a new myth thriving in Social Baloney Land. Ready? “It’s cheaper to eat out than it is to cook meals at home.” As the trolls like to say when speaking webernet-ese, BWAHAHAHA!

I am now launching a counterattack on this pernicious gift of dirt gargle. Ready?

I guarantee you can make a 12-inch homemade pizza for under three bucks.

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Blaine Parker is the award-winning author of the bestselling, unusual and amusing how-to pizza book, Free The Pizza. Also known as The Pizza Geek and "Hey, Pizza Man!", Blaine is fanatical about the idea that true, pro-quality pizza can be made at home. His home. Your home. Anyone's home. After 20 years of honing his craft and making pizza in standard consumer ovens across the nation, he's sharing what he's learned with home cooks like you. Are you ready to pizza?

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Random Slice Wednesday: How to avoid a hot, cheesy pizza disaster inside your home oven

How to make an amazing pizza in your home oven for under three bucks.

Want a great pizza for under three bucks any time you feel like it? Meet: your home oven and a stupidly simple recipe.

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