Kettle Pizza

[ChuckO]

Most of you know, I use my Frankenstein setup to make pizza. I'm wanting to increase my kettle skills, so I figure I have to figure out a way to cook a decent pizza on the kettle. I think I've come up with something...

The firebricks allowed me the ability to have direct heat underneath the pizza. For my ability, I have to go direct, and as a result, I have to avoid burnt crust. This worked for me

Here's the proof it worked....

Using Barb's dough recipe (but with 1/4 cup more water) I had a pretty good working dough, but I was unable to get it big enough to climb the sides of my CI frying pan

The CI likes a lot of real estate, took everything my 22" had to offer

Getting decent crust, I was mostly happy it wasn't sticking

Slid right out

Bottom is OK

Pretty tasty

The firebricks worked out well, my pit was 400+ degrees, but as you can see, pizza didn't burn, and that's hard to do in a kettle

Hope everyone is doing well, I'm insanely busy and will be for at least 2 years. But that's a good thing, busy is as busy does

 

[Bob Correll]

Glad you weren't too busy to stop by and show us a great pizza cook!
Visit us when you can, and take care Chuck!

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

Look who's here! Man O Man, where have you been???? Never mind, if you told me you'd probably have to kill me. Great looking pizza! Hope that's a Go Giants cook, They kind of sagged on that last road trip. See if you can get a few cooks out there before you vanish again. Welcome back Chuck!

 

[Jepprey P]

ChuckO, man-o-man that is a post to sticky as a fundamental Weber grilling technique. I must try this!

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

Ahhh, Chuck, you really seem to cut right to it and show how it’s done! Looks great.
I’m still more “un pizza’d” than I would like to be, must remedy that!

 

[Rich Dahl]

Great to see you back Chuck. Anytime you get the time to post something it's great. I finally made my pizza kettle attachment a garage wall decoration and went back to just the stone and the performer. Really can't tell much difference and it's a lot less work.

 

[Barb D]

Chuck, those were some great looking pizza. Glad to see you back and always enjoy your cooks.

 

[BillSmith]

That looks great! Thanks for sharing the photos and the steps!

 

[BFletcher]

Thanks for taking time to share this! it is very inspirational and now all I need is to stop being lazy and get out there and try this technique on my own.

 

[Karl Quist]

Thank you sir! Your post is very timely, as I have been working on some ideas to try for pizza other than just directly on the grill grates.

Thanks very much for your time to share that.

 

[~Mark~]

I don't think there's anything better than cast iron pizza.
You hit a home run with this one.

 

[Rob M]

Great color on that crust!

 

[JeffG]

Beauty Chuck..