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Frozen pizza will taste even better if you do 1 extra step before cooking

There's one extra and very simple step every home cook should be doing when cooking frozen pizzas

[Close up and selective focus of a home cooked thin crust sweet chilli chicken pizza on a wooden cutting board being sliced with a pizza roller by an unidentifiable woman]

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There's one extra and very simple step every home cook should be doing when cooking frozen pizzas(Image: Getty Images)

Frozen pizzas may not be restaurant-worthy, but they serve a purpose for when you cant be bothered to cook or in need of something speedy. A downside of cooking a frozen pizza is that it lacks the much-needed crunch on the bottom, with the dough being rendered undercooked or even soggy.

However, to avoid any cooking disaster, professional chef and food writer Anne Wolf revealed the simple extra step you can do that will make any frozen pizza infinitely better. For Anne its all about making sure that the pizza is perfectly crispy, which can be hard to do if youre cooking a pizza from frozen.

However, she argued that most people go wrong when cooking pizzas by following the instructions on the packet.

[New York style slice of pizza with anchovies and black olives]

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Heat the pizza stone for an hour before the pizza even hits the oven(Image: Getty Images)

She said that its completely fine, however, you dont want just fine. Anne wrote for Simply Recipes: Here's where most people go wrong: following the box instructions.

"Which is fine! Completely fine. But fine is the enemy of great, and great is just a pizza stone away.

But before you get the pizza stone, you actually want to defrost the frozen pizza, which seems counterintuitive. However, defrosting will help make the dough crispier and a lot less flabby.

She explained: Pizza stones and steels mimic the high-heat, moisture-wicking environment of a commercial brick oven, which is exactly what frozen pizza needs to develop a properly crispy, evenly cooked bottom crust.

[Frozen pizza mozarella on the baking sheet of an oven]

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Defrosting the pizza before cooking will help achieve a crispy bottom(Image: Getty Images)

To ensure the base is super crispy, Anne recommends using a pizza stone in the oven. If you dont have a pizza stone, you may be able to use a specialist pizza tray.

This should be placed in the oven while the oven preheats to the correct temperature. However, dont be tempted to put your frozen pizza in the oven straight away after the oven has preheated.

Instead, allow the stone to continue heating for a full hour after the oven has reached temperature. During this time is when the frozen pizza can be removed from the freezer to come to room temperature.

Once the frozen pizza is defrosted, place it on the preheated stone and bake according to the instructions. Anne advised by checking the base of the pizza a few minutes for the end.

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