something strange happened with our electricity in the house today. We were fixin to bake some pizza pies, but all of a sudden the oven was dead. What to do? I thought: hey, the fire box I my offset smoker ‘Rude Boy’ gets pretty hot, and I had previously welded up a small ‘table’ for direct grilling, so I thought it was worth a shot.
But I also knew the pizza can’t take too much direct heat from underneath. I went into my shop digging around for spare parts, and found some 4 mm steel. I placed that on the grates to protect from direct heat radiation, and then two spacers (1/8†square bar) to elevate the pizza pan just a bit.
Said and done, we made two pies with 3 cheeses (gryuere, parmesan and mozzarella) plus salami and other goodies.
Baked them for 10 minutes each (the fire was real close to the pies, didn’t want to run too hot), and boy did they come out tasty! What a fun ‘spur of the moment’ cook, and now I know I can make some mean pies in my firebox. Cool!
Getting a good fire started
Here's the firebox door position (to keep the heat in)
The first pizza, ready to go in
Here's the pizza in the 'oven' (note the very uneven heat deflector, need to be fixed)
And here's one of the pizzas. Was very hungry, so took it just a bit to soon, but the others turned out better
But I also knew the pizza can’t take too much direct heat from underneath. I went into my shop digging around for spare parts, and found some 4 mm steel. I placed that on the grates to protect from direct heat radiation, and then two spacers (1/8†square bar) to elevate the pizza pan just a bit.
Said and done, we made two pies with 3 cheeses (gryuere, parmesan and mozzarella) plus salami and other goodies.
Baked them for 10 minutes each (the fire was real close to the pies, didn’t want to run too hot), and boy did they come out tasty! What a fun ‘spur of the moment’ cook, and now I know I can make some mean pies in my firebox. Cool!
Getting a good fire started
Here's the firebox door position (to keep the heat in)
The first pizza, ready to go in
Here's the pizza in the 'oven' (note the very uneven heat deflector, need to be fixed)
And here's one of the pizzas. Was very hungry, so took it just a bit to soon, but the others turned out better
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