ive been really interested in doing pizza on my OTS. Im too cheap to buy a pizza kettle but I do have a STOK mega stone.
I started with a full chimney of kbb really really hot spread out over the entire bottom on the grill, let the stone heat up then used a peel to do the transfer. By the time the top went well, the bottom was as close to a diamond as it will ever get. So i borrowed an IR thermometer, got a scale for the dough and decided to go indirect.
this went much better but indirect (even with a full chimney) the portion of the stone that I cooked it on never went over 400F, on the edge where the heat was direct it was over 550. So even with rotating the Za it took way too long. I actually thought of getting out the hair dryer to stoke it to super hot but decided against it. If I want 400 I have an oven for that.
i thought the big stone would be an asset, I think its a liability now. It would be so much easier to se a small stone, heat it direct them move it away from the coals and use the IR thermometer. With the mega stone it takes forwver to get to temp and there is no possibility of moving it.
that and despite the peel and cornmeal the launch again sucked. The family liked it more than my last one which was like chewing on a briquette but Im still so dissapointed especially when the pizza kettle guys peg their heat around 700 indirect.
Sorry for the rant.
I started with a full chimney of kbb really really hot spread out over the entire bottom on the grill, let the stone heat up then used a peel to do the transfer. By the time the top went well, the bottom was as close to a diamond as it will ever get. So i borrowed an IR thermometer, got a scale for the dough and decided to go indirect.
this went much better but indirect (even with a full chimney) the portion of the stone that I cooked it on never went over 400F, on the edge where the heat was direct it was over 550. So even with rotating the Za it took way too long. I actually thought of getting out the hair dryer to stoke it to super hot but decided against it. If I want 400 I have an oven for that.
i thought the big stone would be an asset, I think its a liability now. It would be so much easier to se a small stone, heat it direct them move it away from the coals and use the IR thermometer. With the mega stone it takes forwver to get to temp and there is no possibility of moving it.
that and despite the peel and cornmeal the launch again sucked. The family liked it more than my last one which was like chewing on a briquette but Im still so dissapointed especially when the pizza kettle guys peg their heat around 700 indirect.
Sorry for the rant.