Essential Pizza Tools for Homemade Pizza

Tools for Preparing Pizza

• Digital Scale – When making dough, it requires precision. And you must have a good digital scale with a tare feature.
• Glass Measuring Cups – These help with measuring flour and warm water with the scale.
• Bench Scraper – This tool may seem simple, but when dividing up your dough or removing it from the container, a bench scraper makes the work easy and keeps the dough intact.
• Instant Read Thermometer – For activating yeast, you need the temperature of the water to be between 95 and 105. So be sure you have a good one.
• Containers – Having a 4 or 6 quart container helps for the dough to rise. Invest in a good set of containers or bowls so you have room for the dough to rise during first fermentation.
• Full Sheet Trays – Once you have the dough balls made, it’s best to let them rise on a sheet tray covered in plastic wrap. They can also double for sheet pan pizzas. Alternatively you can spend money on dough proofing containers.
• Good Flour – 00 Flour like Caputo or Bread Flour has the right texture and gluten levels.
• Pizza Cutter or Wheel – A simple pizza wheel makes cutting the pizza easy.
• Blender – For making pizza sauce, and our preferred brand is the Blendtec series of blenders. Great for making a no cook pizza sauce.

Tools for Making the Pizza

There are some important pizza tools needed when you are actually cooking them.

• Pizza Stone – If you don’t have a dedicated pizza oven, then at least a 13-inch pizza stone is important.
• Digital IR Thermometer – No matter when the internal temperature of your oven is, you need the stone temperature to match the style of pizza you want and an IR thermometer is the only way to get that.
• Wooden Pizza Peel – A wooden peel stays cooler than a metal peel as you prep, and makes it easier to slide the pizza onto the hot stone.
• Pizza Turning Peel – The smaller version of the pizza peel, it’s meant to easily turn a pizza for an even cook. This is most useful for use in a dedicated pizza oven with a smaller opening.
• Metal Pizza Peel – For removing the pizza. This isn’t essential, but we use one to remove the pizza while the wood one is being used to make a second or third pizza.

Outdoor Pizza Ovens

We recommend investing in a quality outdoor pizza oven. They range in price and sizes but makes for an incredible pizza tool for wood fired style ovens. Or you can check out our guide on how to grill pizzas or how to make pellet grill pizzas.

Gozney Roccbox – This table top pizza oven is great for cranking out pizzas. These are great especially for Neapolitan inspired pizzas, like our classic Margherita Pizza. They can burn wood or gas and are easy to fire up. Dual fuel retails for $599.

Ooni Karu – Ooni has several models to choose from, but like the Roccbox can be set up for either gas or wood. This 12-inch model retails for $398 plus accessories like the gas attachment (sold separately).

Solo Stove Pi Pizza Oven – Solo’s debut into the pizza oven market is a simply designed circular stove that maintains consistent heat. While it’s not as big as some of its peers, it’s light, sleek design, and portable and a great addition to the pizza oven market.

Gozney Dome – This larger outdoor oven is great for high heat pizzas, it also has features for baking, and even boasts enough space to cook steaks. See our full Gozney Dome Product Review. Dual Fuel retails for $1,900. If you want to learn how to use it for pizza check out our guide on how to use the Gozney Dome Wood Oven.

Alfa Forni Moderno Pizze – Alfa Forni is an Italian manufacturer of high quality pizza ovens. The fire brick is custom made and the entire units are manufactured in Italy. These ovens can be used in a build-in or as a free standing oven. You can read our full Alfa Forni Pizze 2 review where we highlight the ability to cook 2 pizzas at the same time.