While pizza stones like the one we tested last week are pretty popular, they have their drawbacks: they're bulky, heavy, and a little pricey. How does a cheaper, thinner, lighter aluminum pizza pan compare? More

Over the course of my next few columns, I'll be testing a variety of cooking surfaces to see how they perform. We'll start the testing with a cheap, basic pizza stone that's 13 inches in diameter and less than 1/2 inch tall. More

Yesterday I mentioned in passing I'd give you a run-down of the "away game" pizza-making kit I dragged over to a friend's to do a tasting flight of four pies. If you make pizza at home already, you've probably got all the junk you'd need. Still, if you're curious, here's my tool bag, after the jump. More

If you're looking for a gift for a pizza lover, you've just hit the jackpot. Here are our top suggestions to please your favorite pizza devotees, from Slice-tested home pizzamaking tools to ingredients to books, as well as pizza experiences your loved one will never forget. More

As I said earlier today, I believe you can always pick up tips from an experienced pizzamaker, no matter how much of a pie prodigy you think you are.* Something simple I learned during my Pizza a Casa experience? Use a spice/cheese shaker to dust your work surface with flour. More

To get a good, crisp, well-charred undercarriage on a pizza, you need to have some means of transferring it to a blazing-hot surface (like a pizza stone or a grill) without any intervening pan. The best way to do this is with a peel—the long handled tool with a flat paddle on the end that pizzaioli use to deposit and retrieve pies from hot ovens. Most professionals use extremely long peels with heavy-duty, rounded metal heads to poke their pies at a safe distance from the mouths of their 1,000°F wood-burning, fire-belching ovens. But what about the rest of us? More

One-Stop Kitchen Shop: Ever check out the string of kitchen-supply stores on the Bowery near Houston? No? Well, you're in for a treat. Like Chef Restaurant Supply (top), they're open to the public and have all sorts of neat gadgets (above, left and right) that the average home cook would never need. That doesn't mean it's not fun to browse, though. If you were to describe life as a cycle that comprises sleeping, eating, and working (along with some other fun stuff thrown in to break up the monotony), then there are two obvious "depot" superstores that have us... More