Yes! Sometimes, you will find that the pizza slides off the parchment after it has been topped — this happens because when the parchment is sitting on the peel with the parcooked dough, the heat of the dough creates some steaminess between the peel and the parchment that causes the parchment to slightly adhere to the wetness... this keeps the parchment in place when you shimmy your pizza on to the steel. It is totally fine to not use the parchment for the final bake — using it for the initial launch helps with the transfer and will help keep your steel partly clean.
If you definitely want to use the parchment for the final bake, I would slide the parchment paper off the peel (with the dough on top) and top the pizza on your countertop. Then slide the peel back underneath when you are ready to transfer pizza back to the oven.
Let me know if this make sense.
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