Do you have a pizza oven? Does it help? So far I haven't managed to get pizza to taste OK enough to even bother, but when I went to a pizza restaurant and had them run my crust through their oven it tasted sooo close to normal. I wonder if it was the oven?

Do you have a pizza stone? They help alot, and fiarly cheap.

I just use a regular oven, and it tastes pretty good. A pizza oven probably isn't necessary, unless you're a extreme pizza lover. That's interesting that you brought your crust to a pizza restaurant, I should try that sometime. Did they hesitate to say yes?

All you really need is a regular oven, but a pizza stone makes a huge difference (it affects the way the pizza is cooked from the bottom, allowing more air (as the stone is porous) to get to the bottom of the crust) and a high heat is a must.

Yes, the restaurant was a little weird about it. I had discussed it with the owner first, and he said "No problem" in such a way that suggested that he knew what the heck I was talking about. But the night I actually went there, he wasn't there, and the workers didn't seem to quite "get it."

I actually had them put their toppings on, after carefully vetting everything. (Boy did the kitchen manager freak--she was saying "You can't tell anyone the recipe!" and I'm thinking, "I don't want the recipe, I just want to know what's IN the ingredients.")

Then apparently the kitchen manager didn't know I'd brought my own crust, because she was insisting that if I wanted to know about wheat, I would have to read the ingredients on the flour. Um, yeah, what do you THINK flour is made of?

Good pizza, at least. (Kinnickkinnick crust.)