Super-high temperatures are the key to professional-quality pizzas, but there are ways to achieve good results with everyday equipment Got a culinary dilemma? Email feast@theguardian.com Can you make good pizza at home without a pizza oven? Joe, Preston, Lancashire Yes, but it’s more a question of which style of pizza you’re going to have the most success with. “The biggest thing is the temperature of the oven,” says Rich Baker, co-owner of Flat Earth Pizzas in east London, “because domestic ovens simply aren’t hot enough to achieve what a pizzeria does.” Joe might, he suggests, fare better with a grandma pizza, which is cooked in an oiled baking tray for about 15 minutes – “It’s ideal for the oven,” he says. But if you’re hankering for a floppy Neapolitan or crisper, New York-style slice, construct it in a hot cast-iron frying pan, then, once it has some colour on the base, pop it under a high grill until bubbling. “That’s the method I use if I don’t have access to a pizza oven,”