4 Pizzas WITH PICS!

TheToast

Second attempt at pizzas. First was last year where my dough SUCKED. Was like a flat bread. http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1199952/first-pizzas-on-bge-with-pics

This time I used a food processor for the dough and followed this recipe
http://www.madeinmykitchen.com/2014/12/atk-new-york-style-thin-crust-pizza.html

The dough was great. Really elastic and bubbled up at the edges nicely. Left it in the fridge for two days, to rise up.

My setup is platesetter with legs down. Grill on top as a spacer. Pizza stone on top of grill. Cooked at 350c / 660f. Each pizza took about 4mins. Things I'll do differently: the sauce was too runny so I may use fresh rather than tinned tomatoes next time or thicken it somehow.

One challenge this time was that the first two pizzas were cooked perfectly but the third and particularly the fourth had burnt bottoms. Perhaps I'd put too much semolina on the pizza peel and that burnt? Or perhaps the stone got too hot?

Any suggestions / thoughts welcome.

blasting

very nice looking pies

JohnnyTarheel

Yes yes yes!!!

JohnInCarolina

jeponline

Pizzas look awesome. One thing I do to keep all my pies consistent is make sure the egg is at a stable temp and all the ceramics are heated before I put the first one on. I usually let it run at 600 for about an hour and check the temp of the stone using an IR thermometer. 

jmayerdvm

I agree with jeponline, letting the egg run for about one hour at these high temps will do the trick as rushing it will result in one side burned as the temp difference is just too high. 

Stormbringer

Great pizzas bud. Only thing I would suggest is to consider cooking raised into the dome. This puts the pizza top closer to the heat radiating down, thus eliminating the burnt bottom syndrome, I used to get this too. Details of how to do this are in this blog post:

https://www.thecooksdigest.co.uk/2016/08/24/cooking-pizza-with-a-big-green-egg/

bluebird66

I'd hit that!!

stv8r

Yes pizza on the egg is amazing.  Need to get off my butt and try them again lol

GrateEggspectations

These look great. Pizzas with burned bottoms have always been an issue for me.

CPARKTX

Nice work. Try plate setter legs UP. Make sure to give the egg a lot of time to come to temp, stabilize, and ceramic to absorb the heat (so it radiates back out). 

Hans61