Help !!! Trying 1st Pizza

My guess is this your first hi-temp burn in a while and you are burning off a bunch of build up from the egg, setter, grid, etc.

It could be your gasket :pinch: That is a horrible smell Has the smoke or the smell cleared yet?

doug, it could also be a dead toad (my son just informed me that there is such a beast in the very same bathroom w/the Sanford & Son toilet & mirror action)

I do mine in the 500 range, & they mostly look like this:

My first and only try came out great.Just keep an eye on it I did these at 500





Good luck

certainly, it is basic pizza dough, add 2 teaspoons of sugar to 1 & 1/2 cups of cold water, nuke for 1 minute, stir to dissolve the sugar, add 2 teaspoons of yeast, stir around again, give it 5-10 minutes & it will foam up & should look like the picture below. Then add this to 4 cups of flour along with a nice pinch of salt & knead for 15 minutes (kitchenaid mixer w/dough hook helps a lot, but you can do it by hand also): This recipe makes 2 large (indoor pizzas) or 4 smaller "will fit on the pizza stone for the LBGE" pizzas, so break the dough into how ever many you are making then put in a covered container & let rise for a few hours until they double in size (you can speed this up by putting in a warming drawer for 30 minutes-ish):

The proofed yeast:



The dough balls (this was a larger batch):



Add a little bench flour & work it out into a nice pie & slap it on your peel, top it & to the egg you go: