Free CI, burned hands, personal pan pizza party

a friend has been helping her parents downsize and came across eight new 6" lodge CI pans.  She asked if I wanted them and and of course I had to say "hell yes!"

another friend did a quick seasoning on them while I was out of town this week and last night we had them all over to make some pizzas.

this was more fun for us than just the usual crowd making thin crust pizzas at the house, more work as it turned out too, but worth it.  We used TJs pizza dough, let everyone get their own dough in the pan - some rolled thin, some pressed in and up the sides, some went thick, added cheese around the edge, etc.  

I prebaked each one about 4 min in a 550ish egg, then back up to the kitchen for the toppings.  This was a bit of a logistical issue - 500+ degree CI stays hot, so running them up the deck stairs, setting them somewhere safe for people to top, etc. was a challenge I hadn't thought of, we ended up using all of our wood cutting boards to shuttle them around.

another 10 min or so on the egg and they were done.  They slide right out of an oiled pan, so it was easy to keep the line moving and start another round.  We also used two larger CI pans.  Probably made twenty pizzas, some better than others, but it was a blast.  Looking forward to using these pans for individual cobblers, shepherds pie, pot pie, etc.