I've been looking at mini ceramic infrared grills to use in conjunction with my Traeger pellet grill, for searing.
These IR grills supposedly get up to a range of 800-1000F, which also happens to be the range that is best for cooking pizza.
The specialized pizza ovens I see have an opening in the front, which makes sense because if you had to open a lid, you would lose a lot of the heat, right ?
So I was thinking it would be great if there were an IR grill that somehow could have an accessory lid with an opening in the front so it could be used for pizza. I'm imagining using a pizza stone for the pizza to cook on because obviously grill wouldn't support the soft crust very well.
To illustrate, here is a pic of one of those "portable" Ooni pizza ovens:
I might be misunderstanding the physics of the hot IR grills. They are always talking about how the heat is radiant and transmits directly to the food. Does an oven typically use "convection" type heating?
Then there's this thing. It purports to turn a grill in to a pizza oven but I am not sure I am convinced. First of all, I don't necessarily trust the built-in thermometer, and there's no indication of what temps can be achieved or why or how.
The Traeger max setting is 500F, and it tends to run 20F cold in the 200-300F range, so I don't see how this thing is going to make a not-hot-enough oven hot enough. That's why I was thinking ceramic IR.
Apparently several companies have thought of this, here is one designed for Green Mountain pellet grills:
I think I better quit here before my head explodes, there are more of these products than you can shake a stick at. Question is do any of them work worth a tinker's dam ?
These IR grills supposedly get up to a range of 800-1000F, which also happens to be the range that is best for cooking pizza.
The specialized pizza ovens I see have an opening in the front, which makes sense because if you had to open a lid, you would lose a lot of the heat, right ?
So I was thinking it would be great if there were an IR grill that somehow could have an accessory lid with an opening in the front so it could be used for pizza. I'm imagining using a pizza stone for the pizza to cook on because obviously grill wouldn't support the soft crust very well.
To illustrate, here is a pic of one of those "portable" Ooni pizza ovens:
I might be misunderstanding the physics of the hot IR grills. They are always talking about how the heat is radiant and transmits directly to the food. Does an oven typically use "convection" type heating?
Then there's this thing. It purports to turn a grill in to a pizza oven but I am not sure I am convinced. First of all, I don't necessarily trust the built-in thermometer, and there's no indication of what temps can be achieved or why or how.
The Traeger max setting is 500F, and it tends to run 20F cold in the 200-300F range, so I don't see how this thing is going to make a not-hot-enough oven hot enough. That's why I was thinking ceramic IR.
Apparently several companies have thought of this, here is one designed for Green Mountain pellet grills:
I think I better quit here before my head explodes, there are more of these products than you can shake a stick at. Question is do any of them work worth a tinker's dam ?
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