Most people who cook pizzas in their ovens at home have been doing it wrong, according to a new documentary programme.
As part of Channel 5 show Secrets of the Fast Food Giants', actor and chef Alexis Conran has revealed that using the standard setting on an oven to cook a pizza is the wrong way to go about it.
Instead, Conran says you need to use the grill setting if you want an authentic pizza that doesn't taste obviously frozen.
Stating that using an oven ruins the Italian favourite, he said: "What you do is you put this in your oven, whack it up to your top temperature [grill] in your high shelf, and what happens is that it is so hot it cooks your base.
"It's what you like, doughy, and gives the dough a time to rise because it has been cooked from the bottom.
"While the grill is melting everything above."
On the show, Conran then compared two pizzas and told the cameras: “I think if this came in a Dominoes box I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference, apart from the crust."
On the one he oven fan cooked, he added: "This one tastes more like a supermarket pizza, like a frozen pizza."
What do you think? Is this the best way to cook pizza at home?
