Abstract: Pre-stretched pizza dough is placed on an imperforate thermally conductive disk having an up-turned circumferential lip. The disk is placed in a flat-bottomed pan (either before or after the dough is placed on the disk), the bottom of the pan having two finger holes which are sealed by the disk. A cover shaped to permit stacking of pans is placed on the top of the pan to provide a substantially sealed enclosure, and the pizza dough is left in the enclosure for a period of time, both for storage purposes and to permit the dough to rise and enhance its delicacy and flavor. Then the cover is removed and the disk is pushed out of the pan through the finger holes. The dough is then covered with desired pizza food ingredients and the disk is placed in a cooking oven.

Abstract: A package of uncooked pizza dough is formed by folding a disk-shaped layer of dough over precut sections of wax paper or other release paper along parallel pairs of chord lines of specified chord height, defined by the wax paper sections, to form a compact package which is easily made, convenient to transport, efficient in use of materials, and readily stored and unfolded to the disk shape at a home or restaurant, so that manual shaping of the dough to disk form from a block of dough is unnecessary.