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Why's my pizza so smokey tasting?
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If you can get it, el diablo mesquite burns hot amd burns a looong time. Costco has it, amd you can find mesquite lump at and Mexican grocery store. Its worth it. Let it burn a while though so the smoke flavor burms off
Also coconut charcoal id flavorless and is awesome for making za. Good hot fire. Spendy but worth it. Amazon prime -
seedman76 said:Hi folks. New egghead here. My first cook was two pizzas. About a week later I did a third. The crust and top turned out great but all have been way too smokey tasting. To the point you can't taste the pizza itself. All you taste is this smokey flavor...no crust, sauce, pepperoni, etc. I cooked them at 500 on a pizza stone. Platesetter legs down. Stone on top of platesetter. BGE brand lump. I did some research on the cause and came across several posts with similar results. Suggestions were to make sure the lump is going good before putting pizza on. Make sure daisy wheel is open to allow smoke to quickly exit the dome. Control temp with lower draft door. Therefore I made sure I did all that with the 3rd pizza I cooked this week and it was just as smokey as the first two. I love how they turned out except the smoke taste overpowers the pizza and I'm a huge fan of pizza so I need to taste the real thing. Thanks for any suggestions.
@seedman76 dude ...you're baking it in a smoker...duhThe Dude..a Mini and a Large Egg..a DigiQ DX (BGE Green)..some Cast Iron...a Thermapen.............and an Ol' Fashion
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jtcBoynton said: Dough is cooked by conduction and the toppings a combination of convection and radiant heat.
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The dome absorbs heat during warm up and then radiates it back out. That is why it is important to have a long warm up. That is also why height of the pizza stone makes a difference.Southeast Florida - LBGE
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It also helps to get the pizza as high in the dome as you can to get the toppings browned.
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