How to cook pizza

Unknown

I got a BGE pizza stone for Christmas. I can figure out how to make dough, sauce, etc., but need info on cooking technique. Do you put the stone right on the grille? How hot should you get it and approximate cooking time? Thanks for your help!!

RRP

Stu,
Welcome to the BGE world - you'll love it! As for pizza off the BGE that is my wife's favorite egg product. While you could put the stone on the grate you'll have a problem with ingress and egress. OTOH if you buy an eggcessory called a plate sitter that will provide more ceramic mass and will allow more even heating of your stone besides lifting the stone to a height above your edge. An alternative is to use fire brick turned on edge - but they must be fire bricks not common brick. Again, welcome aboard!

Wise One

Stu, as RRP said, you'll really need something else between the stone and the grill. If you don't have the EGGsetter (get one they're well worth it), you might use a pan or a cast iron frying pan to set on the grill to provide some additional mass under the stone. You're lookimg for a temperature between 450 and 550 and it will take about 15 minutes for the pizza to cook. Sinc ethe top vent can be wide open, you can shine a flashlight down the top to check on the progress. You will certainly enjoy the pizza. My wife (who says she does not like sausage) snarfed up the two left over pieces of sausage pizza while I was away on a trip last week. She really likes the pizza done on the BGE.

Shelby

Stu,
Like the others have said, a plate setter or some other ceramic mass is needed to go along with the pizza stone. With the plate setter feet down first, then the pizza stone on top makes it easy to slide the pie on and off the stone.
Couple other points: be sure to put some corn meal on your pizza peel to allow sliding the pie onto the stone. Also, you want the setter/stone to heat up for about 20 minutes or so before putting the pie on.
The first couple of tries might yield less that perfect results. But once you get the hang of it, they are great. Haven't had a store bought pizza here in almost 4 years...as long as I've had the Egg!

Grumpa

Stu,
Where is that Whiz when you need him?

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The Naked Whiz

Bob,
Well, I was eating ice cream pie, actually! You beat me to it![p]TNW

Unknown

Bob, many thanks. Everything I needed to know.

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