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Ditch The Oven Rack: Here's Where To Bake Pizza For Peak Crispiness By Garrett Palm Oct. 5, 2025 6:39 am EST

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Next time you're making homemade pizza and you don't have time to heat up a pizza stone, there's another way to get an even, super hot heat to give your pizza a nice char. Instead of placing the pizza on a rack, just place it on the floor of your oven. If your oven shows signs it needs cleaning , you can still place baking paper with a Teflon sheet underneath or set a sheet pan on the oven floor. Before you do this, however, you should make sure your oven floor can handle a pizza. If the floor isn't strong enough or it has exposed heating coils, this trick won't work.

You'll also want to make sure you don't have soggy pizz

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