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Pizza on the Kamado Joe

Posted on 4/30/22 at 10:23 am
Posted by unclejhim
Folsom, La.
Member since Nov 2011
3703 posts
Posted on 4/30/22 at 10:23 am
I'm going to try homemade pizza in my Joe tonight. Anybody got any tips? Temperature and time?
Posted by Jax-Tiger
Port Saint Lucie, FL
Member since Jan 2005
24738 posts
Posted on 4/30/22 at 11:18 am to
All I can say is pizza usually takes some playing around with. I would get it up to 500 degrees or more. I don't think you're going to get the stone too hot to cook pizza, but just be mindful of how long you leave it on.

If you have a pizza stone, you can cook it at a lower temp and cook it longer, or at a higher temp where you can get some char on your crust. I would just pay close attention to it until you dial in the temp/time that works best for you.
Posted by Jimmy2shoes
The South
Member since Mar 2014
11004 posts
Posted on 4/30/22 at 11:36 am to
You can put the dough on aluminum foil and put it on the grill. Makes a nice crispy bottom.
Posted by TigerGrl73
Nola
Member since Jan 2004
21273 posts
Posted on 4/30/22 at 1:47 pm to
I put balls of aluminum foil between the heat deflector plate and my pizza stone so that the crust doesn't burn. Cook on parchment that I slide onto the preheated stone. Cook at 500 for 7-10 minutes. It's not a 750 degree Neopolitan pizza, but it's good.
Posted by Esquire
Chiraq
Member since Apr 2014
11578 posts
Posted on 4/30/22 at 1:50 pm to
If you are going with a lot of toppings, try cooking the dough for a little before adding the toppings. It will help prevent the middle from not cooking fully and potentially making a mess when it comes time to get it off. As far as temp, as hot as you can get it. The pizza accessory that props the lid open allegedly gets it 800-900 degrees.
Posted by BuddyRoeaux
Northshore
Member since Jun 2019
2696 posts
Posted on 4/30/22 at 1:58 pm to
Food. Board.
Posted by F Goodell
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Oct 2012
75 posts
Posted on 4/30/22 at 6:29 pm to
500 degrees. 12-15 minutes. I transfer the pizza to the stone on parchment paper. Around half way, you can easily slide the paper from underneath the dough. Like mentioned above, you def need spacers between your deflectors and stone.

We don't eat pizza any other way now.
Posted by Bigryno7
Nashville
Member since Jun 2009
1458 posts
Posted on 5/1/22 at 7:55 am to
can you not just put the stone on top of the grill grates?

Havent done pizza on my Big Joe 3 yet, but planning to soon.
Posted by Junkyard Hog
Arkansas
Member since Aug 2019
247 posts
Posted on 5/1/22 at 9:57 am to
Love pizza that way.

Sometimes we pick up Papa Murphy’s and cook them on the Egg. Much better than the oven. I cook them at 600 degrees.
Posted by BugAC
St. George
Member since Oct 2007
52765 posts
Posted on 5/2/22 at 10:21 am to
quote:

can you not just put the stone on top of the grill grates?


Yes you can. Kamado's come with a pot holder insert, that you can also use to put the pizza stone on.

For the OP:

1) Get an appropriate pizza stone. An indoor oven pizza stone is not the same as a high temp grill stone.
2) Make your own dough. The dough makes the pizza, IMO.
3) Here's my recipe:

a. Heat grill up, with stone to 500 degrees.
b. Place your dough on parchment paper.
c. Insert pizza on stone and let cook for 2-3 minutes.
d. Remove parchment paper, cook an additional 3-4 minutes.

When making your dough, make sure the dough is thin. It will rise when cooking and if your dough is thick, then you will have a very thick crust.

Here's a thread on it.

LINK
This post was edited on 5/2/22 at 10:22 am
Posted by Jeaux Cool
Frisco via NELA
Member since Sep 2015
1746 posts
Posted on 5/2/22 at 11:10 am to
quote:

2) Make your own dough. The dough makes the pizza, IMO
I know it's not really "homemade" but you can buy pizza kits from Rotolos and assemble/cook at home. We do that pretty often and always comes out amazing. Think they come out to around $10/pizza
Posted by unclejhim
Folsom, La.
Member since Nov 2011
3703 posts
Posted on 5/2/22 at 2:08 pm to
Thanks Bug. I had read your original thread but couldn't find for my cook. That's the same dough recipe I used. It tasted great but I found it really hard to work with (stretch and shape). I was running the joe at aprox. 700. All in all it came out pretty good.
This post was edited on 5/3/22 at 4:50 pm
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