Pizza! On Pizza Day!

[Richard S]

Had plans for doing some pizzas last night without even knowing it was National Pizza Day!

It was not National Negroni Day but what the heck!It was our first day in the 60’s here so thought it would be a good night to try to get some high heat on Performer!Had to work a little harder to get temps up to 550+ as the night chilled but with a nice rotation of the pies near the flame we got a nice crisp on the edges of the crust!Pies were fantastic as was the wine from Puglia, Italy !

 

[DanHoo]

those pies look AWESOME.

Did you save me a slice of the pesto za ?

 

[Darryl - swazies]

looking good, I hope for many pizza days instead of the few I had once we get warm again up here.

 

[Grace H]

Great job with the high heat

 

[Kevin L (NKY)]

Great looking pies and your photos are over the moon,or is that a balloon!!!!

 

[Jabe G]

Those are some mighty fine looking pies!

 

[Mark_E]

Nice! I'd like to hear about the technique. What cooker is that? Did you put the lid over it? I need to get into the pizza thing with my Weber and I'd like to do it without a pizza oven accessory.

 

[Richard S]

Nice! I'd like to hear about the technique. What cooker is that? Did you put the lid over it? I need to get into the pizza thing with my Weber and I'd like to do it without a pizza oven accessory.

I did it on my Performer. There is a lot of info on this site (Rich G) and YouTube on doing pizza on a kettle. Most of the success stories combine using a lot of fuel and raising the pizza stone off the grate a bit.
I like to add a few large chunks of apple wood that give a good flame and then rotate the pie near the flame to get a good crisp.
When the lid is on it is just partly on to make sure the temps stay high.
These pies took about 8-10 minutes.

 

[Peter Gallagher]

great looking pies for sure!