No Pizza Oven? No Problem — A 'Pizza Stone' Is the Easy and Affordable Accessory for Your Oven or BBQ Grill for Elevated Pizza Making

A kitchen with a marble-topped kitchen island with wooden panels and bar stools next to a wooden kitchen table and in front of open sliding glass doors leading to an outdoor kitchen and seating.

I'm an owner and a lover of pizza ovens, but I absolutely appreciate that they are an investment purchase, with many setting you back hundreds of pounds. Not only that, they require — for most of them at least — outdoor space as well. So if I'm asked for a recommendation on how to make homemade pizzas that will take them to the next level, without having to fork out for a pizza oven, I would suggest a pizza stone.

This Unicook Pizza Stone on Amazon, for example, is made of cordierite, which is the same material used in outdoor pizza ovens. As pizza stone lover and Livingetc's content director Lindsey Davis explains, "The reason the stone works is that the cordierite material instantly draws moisture from your dough, causing a good rise and crisp crust."