Home Made Pizza Kettle


 
Thanks Jamie. The ironic thing is, I've been thinking how I could build a version of the KP, and yours is perfect. I've got a cpl businesses I'm going to ask about getting a food grade drum and see where I can go from there! Thanks for the help,
Tim
 
Just because I had the leftover portion of the barrel, it made sense to make a smokin' stacker for my grill. I smoked a pork butt yesterday on it and it turned out great. This thing is basically just a 21.5" version of my mini. I cut out the bottom of the barrel and used the piece of steel as a heat diffuser and it is sitting on 3" long stainless steel screws about 6" below the cooking grate. The heat diffuser is about 18.5" across. A 21.5" cooking grate sits on 6 1/2"stainless steel machine screws about 5.5" inches below the lip of the barrel. Six machine screws was overkill, but the package had 8 and after using 2 to reconnect the barrel after cutting it down to narrow it, I didn't want them to go to waste. I would have taken more pictures, but the wife decided it was time to clean and organize the garage all day so I just set it and forgot it.


 
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Holy cow, this is like bizarroworld. I just created the same exact setup last week after never having seen it done before. Today I was perusing correct pizza oven dimensions and stumbled across this post so thought I'd register and post up my creations! You know what they say, great minds thinks alike! :cool:

Started with the same 55g steel drum
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Cut it up, installed hardware, added hinged cooking grate, etc...same as you
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Thermometer and cooking grate
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Test burn-in. Pegged the needle at 700* for over 8 minutes.
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Made our first pie with it!
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And I even made a smoker out of the remainder!!
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I named the pizza contraption the "PizzaBarrel" for obvious reasons. I'm very pleased with the outcome and the product it delivers. Im going to make a few more and sell them at a local market I think. Right now Im researching ideal dome/vent dimensions and ratios and doing a bunch of small test pies to figure out the best setup with the PizzaBarrel. I'd like to buy a 21" pizza stone and cut off the back of it (to match the grill rack) so my pizza stone doesn't move around inside the stove.

Very cool to stumble across someone else with nearly the exact same setup and idea. The 55g drums work beautifully!

Cheers,
Matt
 
Catching up on photos and because there is nothing like a smoker chugging along (especially one that you built) at sunrise...

 
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