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Pizza on the Big Green Egg

Posted on 3/23/13 at 8:00 pm
Posted by flyAU
Member since Dec 2010
24901 posts
Posted on 3/23/13 at 8:00 pm
First time doing a from scratch pizza cook. Any advice?

From what I have read i should be:

1. putting the egg at 600 degrees
2. Plate setter with legs down
3. Pizza stone on plate setter
4. use cornmeal to help pizza slide on and off the peel


How long do pizzas normally take at such a high temp?
Posted by Ziggy
Member since Oct 2007
22123 posts
Posted on 3/23/13 at 8:33 pm to
I've yet to do one on my Grill Dome, but everything I've read I thought you'd only have to leave it on for 10 minutes or so at that temperature.
Posted by hungryone
river parishes
Member since Sep 2010
11987 posts
Posted on 3/23/13 at 8:45 pm to
Setup as you described, but put something between the stone and plate setter to get the stone higher in the dome (for top browning and to insulate the crust a bit). Try the green egg feet, or a few inch and a half segments of copper pipe, or a couple of firebricks set on edge. Timing is difficult, as it depends on the crust....hydration of dough, thickness, amount/kind of toppings, etc. at 600, with high hydration thin crust, light toppings, I'd say 5-8 minutes.

Have not egged a pizza since I got the Baking Steel....it works great in the oven with the broiler assist.
Posted by flyAU
Member since Dec 2010
24901 posts
Posted on 3/23/13 at 8:55 pm to
Made 3 smallish pizzas. Second is on egg right now. First turned out great thus far.
Posted by flyAU
Member since Dec 2010
24901 posts
Posted on 3/23/13 at 8:56 pm to
Also, making a round pizza is hard as hell. Mine all have turned out looking like continents.
Posted by ddsmit
Pensacola, FL
Member since Jan 2011
206 posts
Posted on 3/23/13 at 8:57 pm to
We went to a Florida Eggfest in Melbourne and one of the cooks was cooking pizza. He used store bought Pizza dough with a little pizza sauce spread on it, pulled barbecued beef brisket and mozarella cheese topping. He had a line of people waiting for them.
Posted by colorchangintiger
Dan Carlin
Member since Nov 2005
30979 posts
Posted on 3/23/13 at 9:10 pm to
Whatever you do, don't wash the pizza stone with soap. I hadn't used mine in awhile and forgot not to use soap. It was dusty as shite and I washed it. Had to throw the pizza stone out.

Another bit of advice, the legs on the plate setter are extremely weak. I sawed a 3 inch piece of 4" PVC pipe off that fell 3 feet and hit the leg when the setter was leaning up against my work bench and it broke off.
Posted by ruzil
WNC
Member since Feb 2012
18412 posts
Posted on 3/23/13 at 11:44 pm to
I like to work my crust on a sheet of parchment paper. I use this to move the dough onto the pizza stone and brown the crust a bit, slide the crust off the grill, add toppings (not too much to weigh the crust down) and then back on the egg until done.

I like a bubbly crust with some char and this works for me.
Posted by Carson123987
Middle Court at the Rec
Member since Jul 2011
68088 posts
Posted on 3/24/13 at 1:28 am to
quote:

Also, making a round pizza is hard as hell. Mine all have turned out looking like continents.


Posted by Coater
Madison, MS
Member since Jun 2005
33579 posts
Posted on 3/24/13 at 4:09 am to
I second the parchment paper
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