You don’t need a kitchen full of expensive specialty gear for exceptional homemade pizza: a basic peel goes for $35, and a stand mixer is convenient and efficient, but optional. The sole truly indispensable piece of equipment is a pizza steel.
This thick slab of steel sits in the bottom of your home oven, soaks up its heat and then zaps it to the dough, creating the crisp, well-browned crust and leopard-spotted underside that are the hallmarks of a proper bake.
