Pizza ovens

annie1992

10 years ago

It is no secret that I really don't care for pizza. I actually like everything except the red sauce. Well, and cheese, I'm not crazy for cheese, but I eat a little bit. Oh, and no pepperoni or olives and the vegetables need to be completely cooked and....well.....you see my point.

That didn't stop Elery, who loves pizza, from getting himself a pizza oven that fits on top of his gas grill. Since we sold his house and moved here, all of his toys came along, including his gas grill/outdoor stove/kitchen. When he found that the company made a pizza oven that fit on top, he just couldn't help himself.....

And so, I made pizza crust. Spread out onto his peel, topped with slices of Great White and Mortgage Lifter tomatoes, some sautÃ¯Â¿Â½ed onions, mushrooms and peppers, fresh basil from the herb garden and topped with just a tiny bit of cheese. No meat.

We made two, he put more cheese on his, and some sausage, as two small-ish pizzas fit in the oven at once. There's a learning curve to not burning them yet getting the crust done, and fortunately (for me, at least), he cooked his first. It got a bit "crunchy" on the bottom, LOL. Not charred, but a bit longer than necessary.

The temperature gauge on the top said 700 degrees, so I was a bit apprehensive when he put mine in, but it came out perfectly:

Even the bottom was just right:

And just because I'm such a nice person, I shared my uncharred pizza with Elery. I ate a slice and left all the rest to him, and he was happily eating leftovers this evening.

Annie

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coconut_nj
10 years ago
Geez Annie, that looks soooo good! I've been wanting pizza for a couple weeks. Christy is not that big on it. She likes carnivore pizza style and I love the veggies. Congratulate Elery for me! Yum.
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10 years ago
Wow how neat is that pizza oven.

~Ann
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The spinners are good to have, and you can see me using them in the video in which the pizza came out the way it should. I have another video that shows me trying to use the spinners too soon, which should be avoided because the dough has to be cooked sufficiently before spinning the pizza. The spinners are easier to use and more efficient once the dough has cooked enough, but for me, the first turn needs to be done with a turner. If you do not have a turner, you can remove the pizza after 15 seconds using the peel and then turn it on the peel, but it's very difficult to use the peel as a turner without removing the pizza. I know you weren't laughing at me, but for me, the video is painful to watch. I have another video that shows what happens when you try to use the spinners after 10 seconds (another mistake), and so that one might appear funny to others, although not to me. I'll see about uploading it later, as it does have some good information. I don't care if people laugh at my videos - I'm used to it by now. It's just that it is never my intention to make funny videos. However, I've looked at some of my videos later and did find some of them funny. Sometimes I seem to say things without really thinking, and then I wonder later what possessed me to say them. I'm pretty good at ad libbing and can be very spontaneous, but that can be dangerous also. A lot of times I catch people off-guard when I say things that even I don't know why I say. Most of the time I try to control myself, but some people are amused when I don't. I don't know if I mentioned this before or not, but I was in a short independent movie that a friend of mine in Hollywood wrote and directed, and he also did the video editing. He's done video editing for Blind Date, The Robin Leach Show, and many others, and so he's quite good at editing. Anyway, he was using my house in Venice for a location shoot and happened to ask me if I wanted to be in the movie, as he wanted to flesh it out a bit and had decided to add another character, which I was to play. I said okay, but was never given a script, and so I had to ad lib my lines in front of the camera, which took a little bit of getting used to. The movie was a mystery/crime story and therefore not meant to be funny, and so I tried to play my part very seriously. However, when the movie was shown on the big screen to an audience in Hollywood, everyone laughed when I was on screen. I found out later that I was the comic relief, although no one told me that before. After the movie was over, there was a reception in a patio behind the theater, and I got to meet people from the audience who told me that they loved my performance and wanted to know if I had been in anything else. At least they liked me, even though they thought I was funny. P.S. I fixed the link so that it does not take you to Seattle.
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sally2_gw
10 years ago
I have to tell Jerry about this. Of course, we have to get a working gas grill, first, but now I know to shop for one that can accommodate something like this.

Oh, and I'll take a slice of your's, Annie, since you don't want it!

Sally
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foodonastump
10 years ago
Your crust looks great! I was reading up on a similar top for a weber kettle grill.

Last week my baking steel arrived. I'm looking forward to checking out the difference between that and my stone.
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sushipup1
10 years ago
Awesome, just plain awesome!
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skeip
10 years ago
Lots of these are adaptable to baking bread, check the instructions and see if it is possible.

Steve
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Lars
10 years ago
You should have Elery check out the pizza making forum - they may have some tips he could use.

It's hard for me to imagine how you could not love such a beautiful pizza! Our BGE will get up to 700 degrees, and that is optimal for a crisp thin crust pizza. Kevin and I are still planning to have a pizza party, but it hasn't happened yet.

Do you make the pizza dough in the bread machine? That's what I've been doing lately, as it is less messy, but I had to reduce the recipe to 2/3 and get two pizzas from one recipe instead of three. I could probably get a full recipe in the machine, but I think two pizzas at a time is enough. I plan to make pizza next week-end, since Bernard will still be here helping us with landscaping.

Lars
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dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
10 years ago
With that pizza oven, I predict you will start to love pizza soon.

dcarch
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debrak2008
10 years ago
I would be making pizza every day. Think about the foods you do like and put them on the pizza!
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annie1992
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10 years ago
Lars, thanks for that link. Elery is checking out the pizza making forum right now. I did make the dough in the bread machine, but you're right, 2/3 of the dough would be a better size, it made two large pizzas, with leftovers. If one hadn't been charred, there would have been too much.

Steve, we made pita bread in it this weekend, but can't seem to find any instructions to bake artisan breads. I think it will be an experimental learning process, but I definitely intend to try.

Sally, that particular grill/stove came with a griddle and three burners with a 30,000 BTU BTU capacity each. It's also somewhat portable, so it'll go to the farm to heat the water to pluck poultry and I will use it outdoors for canning, at least water bath canning. I'm not sure I can regulate the burner enough for a pressure canner, but perhaps when I am more used to it.

The total cost for stove, griddle, pizza oven and shipping was less than $500 and it's a "multi-tasker" as I can use it for a grill, a pizza oven, a griddle for outdoor breakfasts, canning, poultry processing and bread baking.

So far I'm happy, Elery's happy and the thing got good reviews, so we'll see how that goes. We've had the stove/grill for a while, after my $59 gas grill from Menards burned his eyebrows when the burner collapsed. (OK, that's not really funny, but it is in a twisted sort of way, LOL) The grill came from Amazon, free shipping with Prime, but of course he found the pizza oven somewhere else so had to pay shipping.

We'll see how it goes with more use. Our goal is to have an outdoor, woodfired oven at the farm but we don't want to do that until we are ready to build there.

Annie

This post was edited by annie1992 on Mon, Oct 14, 13 at 22:46
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