What’s wrong with my pizza? The cheese ontop burns,but the middle of the pizza bread remains soft and uncooked?

Ingredients I use for the dough:
5 cups flour
4 tablespoons yeast
pinch of salt
and water

I cooked it for a little over an hour at 250 degrees in the oven.
The pizza is about an inch thick. It seems to have a cooked crust and cheese burned or about to burn. The middle of the dough is soft and chewy, as if it was uncooked.
I let the dough rest over night.

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7 comments a "What’s wrong with my pizza? The cheese ontop burns,but the middle of the pizza bread remains soft and uncooked?"

Your temp is too low and you cooked for too long as a result.
Pizza is cooked in a hot oven. Next time try about 400 degrees or so. Or you could cook your dough for a few minutes first and then put on toppings.

Edit: don’t put the dough in frig. to set : )

Your dough recipe is out of whack. Way too much yeast and no oil.

250 degrees is also way off. Pizza ovens cook at about 800 degrees. It sounds like you have the broiler on if the cheese burns at 250 degrees.

try this recipe

Hmmmmm….it seems to me that the temp might be too high. Usually when the middle is raw is because the temp is too high so it cooks/burns the outside quickly. Next time try lowing down the oven to 230 degrees. You should also try to thin out your pizza a little too.

250 is way low and the pie is too thick

1/4# pie 475 deg 8 min on a stone… period

man save ur self a lot of work buy thin crust pizza dough

Did you cook you dough for about 10 minutes after pricking it with a fork, before you added your toppings? That will help a lot, even if your dough is a bit out of wack. That is a lot of yeast. You need more salt and some oil too.
Try a new dough recipe and perhaps a thinner crust.
250 degrees is very low for pizza. Your oven may be out of wack too. Get an oven thermometer and check it out. If you have to, you can use that to find the correct setting on your oven dial.

There seems to be some confusion here over which “degrees” you mean – are you talking farenheit or celsius? Because 250C sounds OK, while 250F is definately too cold. If you are talking celsius, try taking the advice to turn it down a little, to 240 or 230, or make the pizza crust thinner and don’t cook it quite so long. If you are using farenheit, try about 470-480F.

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