I am going to try to make a couple of pizzas on the new WCS Friday evening. Any tips on charcoal placement? I have burnt a few pies😞. I am thinking of getting the fire very hot either in a big ring on the outside of the stone or very hot one the lower portion of the WCS. Chime in even if you have a ceramic cooker. Thanks...
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My personal suggestion would be....
1) place the charcoal baskets you got with your kettle Low in the kettle
2) use your standard grate... Lay a heat deflector over it.
3) place another grate on top of the standard grate to elevate your pizza stone as high up in the lid/dome as you can get it.
4) preheat all parts mentioned before transferring your dough on to your pizza stone. Use lots of briquettes because it will take 35/45 minutes to get your pizza stone hot enough to cook on. Use an IFR thermometer to track the heat of your stone.
5) when your kettle is as hot as you can get it... 500°/600°/700° put you pizza on.
6) Use parchment paper on your pizza peel to make it easy to transfer to the stone. Plus if you have a hot spot and one side is browning faster than the other, you can rotate it easier.
7) depending how hot you can get your kettle... It will take 5 to 10 minutes to cook a pizza.
*The heat deflector is critical at high temps or... You will burn the bottom of your dough.
*If you're able to cook at 700°/800°... Use "00" type flour. It won't brown as fast and get ugly.
Just my opinion.😎
This is my setup for baking pizza on my BGE. I also have a 26" Weber kettle, but I've never baked a pizza in it.Last edited by Breadhead; May 20, 2016, 01:59 AM.
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We cooked this on a 22" Weber this past Monday.
I started 1 chimney of coals and one hot placed them on the charcoal grate dead center.
I placed a cast iron griddle on the top grate and the pizza stone on top of that
The grate thermometer never went above 450 but my research reading led to believe that the stone would be much hotter than that.
Let everything sit for 20 minutes.
Followed Breadhead directions to transfer the pizza to the stone.
Closed the lid and about 12 minutes later we had a thoroughly baked crust that was crispy and strong.
The dough we used was from our local Italian place, their crust is awesome and you can get it fresh large dough for $3. They freeze well too.
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Just to add one thing - if you use parchment and plan on cooking at very high temps, trim the parchment close to the pizza because it can burn.
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This is a very useful grate for cooking bread & pizza. Plus you can use it to add more ribs/pork butts/wings... Etc. Or you can invert it to sear. Depending on the size you get its sells for $40 to &60. It's handy for Kamado cooking. The distance from the fire and a heat deflector is critical.Last edited by Breadhead; May 20, 2016, 10:39 PM.
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Pizza is much easier in a home oven. Get a 1/2" thick A36 mild steel plate, preheat it at 550 for an hour and a half or so, and when you go to bake your pie flip the broiler on high and nuke it a couple inches under the broiler. I have mine set to the second from top rung in my oven. Pies bake in 3-4 minutes, perfect char top and bottom. Easy, safe, and no jerry-rigging something that is inherently bad at the task.
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I got the indoor pizza down pretty good. I have used Jeff Varasano's pizza site for awhile. www.varasanos.com
My favorite is sourdough pizza which I will make again sometime in June. 550 F the indoor oven can smoke up the house. My ultimate goal would be to come close to a restaurant in Baltimore. joesquared.com
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- Near Richmond VA
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Weber Performer Deluxe
SNS
Pizza insert
Rotisserie
Cookshack Smokette Elite
2 Thermapens
Chefalarm
Dot
lots of probes.
Fireboard
Fine Swine - weighing ingredients is the most accurate way to get consistent results. A cup of flour can weigh anywhere from 4 oz to 5 + oz. A teaspoon of table salt weighs more than a teaspoon of kosher salt. If you have a recipe that gives flour amounts by volume you have to pick a weight for a cup of flour. I start with 4.5 oz per cup. Take notes so that you can adjust next time if the recipe was good enough to use again.
I actually convert all weights to grams because grams are a little more precise than oz, (16 oz per pound, but in grams there are 454 per pound - I am a bit obsessive about measurements though. )
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Fine Swine ...
Yes... I use a scale. A bread recipe/formula, flour weight to water weight, needs to be exact if you want to replicate bread that you really like.
On your sourdough starter... Just follow the directions in the thread I posted for Steve. It's a simple process that requires very little hands on time. It takes about 2 weeks to develop an active sourdough culture that will levin a loaf of bread. Once it passes the float test it's ready to make bread with.ðŸ‘ÂLast edited by Breadhead; May 30, 2016, 12:37 PM.
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