I've always used a pizza stone for making pizzas in the oven. Then it broke. I have nothing against the stone and it lasted 10+ years before breaking, but that led me to researching pizza stones then into pizza steels. I opted to try the steel as the replacement and it has changed pizza night for us. Yes, its heavy (that's a good thing), yes it takes 45 minutes of preheat (again, a good indicator), but the results is a 5 minute bubbly and beautiful leoparding (apparently that's a word describing bottom of pizza crust) pizza. I'm lucky enough to be able to buy raw pizza dough, rolled out and ready to be topped with our own sauce and ingredients. I've been so amazed by how nice this worked (and tasted) that I've started having pizza parties with friends making their own personal creations.