Editing Pizza (section)

===Baking===
In restaurants, pizza can be baked in an oven with [[fire brick]]s above the heat source, an electric deck oven, a [[conveyor belt]] oven, or in traditional style in a wood or coal-fired [[brick oven]]. The pizza is slid into the oven on a long paddle, called "[[Peel (tool)|peel]]", and baked directly on hot bricks, a screen (a round metal grate, typically aluminum), or whatever the oven surface is. Before use, a peel is typically sprinkled with cornmeal to allow the pizza to easily slide on and off it.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bmI2YJ1vMxMC&pg=PA3 | title=Make Great Pizza at Home | publisher=Taste of America Press | author=Owens, Martin J. | year=2003 | page=3 | isbn=978-0-9744470-0-1 | access-date=December 12, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527174523/https://books.google.com/books?id=bmI2YJ1vMxMC&pg=PA3 | archive-date=May 27, 2016 | url-status=live }}</ref> When made at home, a pizza can be baked on a [[pizza stone]] in a regular oven to reproduce some of the heating effect of a brick oven. Cooking directly on a metal surface results in too rapid heat transfer to the crust, burning it.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=Angus |title=Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake The Perfect Italian-Style Pie |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/23/630544154/pizza-physics-why-brick-ovens-bake-the-perfect-italian-style-pie |access-date=July 25, 2018 |work=[[NPR]] |date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724111753/https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/23/630544154/pizza-physics-why-brick-ovens-bake-the-perfect-italian-style-pie |archive-date=July 24, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Some home chefs use a wood-fired pizza oven, usually installed outdoors. As in restaurants, these are often dome-shaped, as pizza ovens have been for centuries,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.californo.co/collections/pizza-oven-kits/|title=pizza oven kits|publisher=Californo|access-date=April 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426080338/https://www.californo.co/collections/pizza-oven-kits/|archive-date=April 26, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> in order to achieve even heat distribution. Another variation is grilled pizza, in which the pizza is baked directly on a barbecue grill. Some types, such as [[Sicilian pizza]], are baked in a pan rather than directly on the bricks of the pizza oven.

Most restaurants use standard and purpose-built pizza preparation tables to assemble their pizzas. [[Mass production]] of pizza by [[Pizza chain|chains]] can be completely automated.

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File:Pizza im Pizzaofen von Maurizio.jpg|Pizzas baking in a traditional wood-fired [[brick oven]]
File:Pizza baking in Wood-fired oven.jpg|A pizza being removed with a wooden peel
File:Pizza Margherita stu spivack.jpg|A [[pizza Margherita]]
File:Eataly Las Vegas - Feb 2019 - Sarah Stierch 12.jpg|Charred crust on a pizza Margherita, an acceptable trait in artisanal pizza
File:Grilled_pizza_2.jpg|Pizza grilling on an outdoor gas range
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