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Little Food Stories That Changed Our Lives

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DUMB IF YOU DON’T | Of course we stand behind every one of the 500-plus stories we’ve produced for this website since we launched in April 2010—we wouldn’t have done any one of them if we hadn’t thought that the information would be of value to Frugalbits readers. But some of these posts have had more impact on our own lives than others, altering irreversibly which products/brands we buy (or don’t buy) and how we prepare certain foods. The following three little pieces really have changed our lives. —Team Frugalbits Read more

My Pizza by Jim Lahey

You Need A Pizza Stone

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The secret to cooking perfect pizza really is a pizza stone. Here’s how Jim Lahey uses one.

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WHAT THE PROS KNOW | No matter how you do pizza at home—from scratch, from half-scratch with premade dough and store-bought sauce or from take-and-bake (doctored Dr. Oetker anyone?)—the taste and consistency of your pie will be infinitely improved if you bake it on an pizza stone.

I was seriously shocked at how much better my frozen pie tasted a few months back when I baked it on an inexpensive no-name ceramic pizza stone ($13 from HomeSense) rather than on my Cuisinart non-stick pizza pan. And I was shocked again this week at how much better the crust performed when I used the stone precisely as described in no-knead bread guru Jim Lahey’s new cookbook My Pizza: The Easy No-knead Way to Make Spectacular Pizza at Home. Read more