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[quote=Anonymous]Others have already pretty much bit the nail on the head, but the problem isn't your dough, it's how you are cooking it. You want a pizza stone on a rack set just below halfway up your oven. Turn the oven up to the highest temperature it has, regardless of how hot that is. Let it preheat for a long time. Hold the pizza peel in one hand and open the oven door with the other. Quickly slide the pizza onto the stone and close the door. Do not open the door again until you are virtually certain the pizza is done. That's about the best you can do at home without gerryrigging things, like filling your oven with ceramic tiles or removing the oven lock and cooking the pizza on the clean cycle.

If you think the stone is not working, you either did not preheat long enough or you do not have the oven hot enough.

If you can't get the pizza off the peel and onto the stone, here are some tips:

- Do not put the dough onto the peel until the oven is already mostly preheated. If you let a prepared pizza sit on the peel for several minutes, it will stick no matter what.

- Right before you put the rolled or stretched dough on the peel, toss some cornmeal on the peel. After you put the dough on the peel shake the peel back and forth until the dough slides about freely on the peel.

- Top the pizza with sauce, cheese, toppings. Do not overtop. Once it's topped, again shake the peel until the pizza slides back and forth freely. If it's sticking, lift the pizza a bit with one hand and toss more cornmeal under it with the other.

- Take the pizza to the oven and shake once more to make sure the pizza is still moving freely. Then open the oven door and slide the pizza in.

All of these tips are for a wooden peel. If none of them work, go to a restaurant supply store and get a thin metal peel, which is much easier to use. Top the pizza directly on the countertop, not on the peel (but still use cornmeal under the crust). Slide the peel under the pizza to pick it up and carry it to the oven.
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