Big Sad Egg

[jhapka]

I visited my parents last weekend and I found my dad’s BSE. He bought it in his quest for outdoor pizza before he repurposed it as a shop vac hose rack.

[surfdog]

Poor little guy.

[ecowper]

Oh man, that guy sure looks lonely

[Thunder77]

What an insult to that poor egg!

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

To be honest, it's still serving a use that makes pops happy... that's worth something?.... seriously, sell the thing, buy or build the old man a hose reel and get him a decent pizza oven And buy yourself a new cooker with the spare change

[jhapka]

That sounds like the best course of action. Sell it and buy him a nice ooni or rock box. Although whatever pizza oven I get him would have to fit a family size from papa Murphy’s

[DTro]

It needs some love!

[STEbbq]

Trade him a hose reel for the Egg! Win win.

[JCBBQ]

Poor little orphan

[FireMan]

I think ya oughta sit pops down & grill him fer the facts. Ask him “what’s the deal”? And make a pizza while yer at it.

[jhapka]

I should make him some pizza on it. But if it’s not papa Murphy’s he’s not interested

[Uncle Bob]

If Pa Murph is his thing, and it's gotta be the 16" then the house oven with maybe a baking steel would do the trick. I guess it depends on what qualities he was pursuing when he had a "pizza oven" in mind. A Roccbox won't fit a 16, and the Ooni would be too tight of a fit, along with any of the other typical prospects that claim 16", because that's the nominal size of their stone. The burner configuration will most often not treat the edges of a true 16 very kindly.

[jhapka]

He’s settled on his Traeger for pizza and seems pretty happy with it. I don’t think it’s very impressive but I’m not going to yuck his yum.

[Smoked Transistors]

I think some loyal Egg Heads might call this BGE abuse. Placing him in the corner of the garage to hold the shop vac hose when possibly needing it's own ashes vacuumed out from the last time it was used.

[jfmorris]

The new Blackstone pizza oven (the one on the stand) claims to cook "up to a 16 inch pizza"... just saying... that may serve him better than a kamado that takes 45 to 60 minutes to reach pizza cooking temperatures. I bet Papa Murphy's pizza doesn't need anything higher than 450 to 500 either, since it is designed for a home oven.

So if he is doing Papa Murphy's pizzas, what is the attraction for him to do it outside? Just to keep the heat out of the kitchen? That is kinda what I am thinking this summer - keeping as much "baking" outside on the kamado or kettle as I can, or even the gasser in indirect mode. My AC system struggles to keep the house cool on hot summer days, and adding a bunch of heat in the kitchen by using the oven doesn't help matters at all...

I've even done some decent pizzas in the past on my gas grill, by pre-heating on high, then shutting off the two middle burners while leaving the two end burners on high.

[jhapka]

I tried going there once and now I don’t go there on this topic. Not worth it lol

[Murdy]

"Unrealistic expectations" and "3 cookers" -- time to get him a membership here.

[jfmorris]

jhapka yeah - its unrealistic to expect a Papa Murphy's pizza, meant to be cooked in an oven at 425 on the cardboard tray it was assembled on, to turn out the same as a true wood fired pizza, or even like the pizza's with NY style crust that I made with my son over the Father's Day weekend, which we baked on the kettle and kamado.

If he did put a Papa Murphy's in that wood fired oven in Mexico, it would burst into flames...

[ecowper]

jhapka would your dad consider pre-made dough and all he has to do is roll it out, then build the pizza as normal? We don’t make our own dough, we buy the pre-made stuff at Trader Joe’s and it works really well.

Just a thought if he wants the handmade, wood fired pizza experience, but doesn’t want to make his own dough.

[jhapka]

They live in the true middle of nowhere but I will check in Grand Forks where the Papa Murphy’s is and see if any of the grocery stores have some.

[TripleB]

I have never understood the fascination with pizza ovens and I love pizza. To me they are equivalent to crock pots, bread makers and ice cream makers. Soon to collect dust on a garage shelf.

Take the BGE home and tell your dad that you'll buy pizza for him from his favorite pizza joint for the rest of his life.

[Jfrosty27]

I agree. Making a top notch pizza is not all that easy. I leave the Za to the pros. I struggle plenty just trying to make passable bbq.

[jhapka]

I will admit I thought I would use my SNS Kamado for pizza a lot more than I do so I’m glad I love it for every other reason

[jhapka]

I messaged him today and he doesn’t want to sell it he wants to keep it. Oh well what do you do

[mrichie1229]

The only thing you can do, go to his house and make some tasty barbecue on his BGE.