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Tips for homemade pizza on Weber Kettle: UPDATE (success)

Posted on 6/25/19 at 7:38 pm
Posted by Tornado Alley
Member since Mar 2012
26480 posts
Posted on 6/25/19 at 7:38 pm
How do y'all get the dough to not stick to the pizza pan? I have the type of pan which has a bunch of little holes in it so I'm not sure corn meal will work or stay in place. What about Pam?

I plan to put the pan on some bricks so I can elevate it a little and slow the cooking process some.

Update:

I used parchment paper and the pizza turned out great. Thanks for all the tips. To those I bitched at, I apologize. Some jackass sideswiped my car that day and fled the scene, so I was in a pretty bad mood.
This post was edited on 7/1/19 at 7:37 pm
Posted by fillmoregandt
OTM
Member since Nov 2009
14368 posts
Posted on 6/25/19 at 8:18 pm to
Use a stone instead of a pan/grate
Posted by malvin
Member since Apr 2013
4628 posts
Posted on 6/25/19 at 8:21 pm to
Parchment paper
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
76443 posts
Posted on 6/25/19 at 8:21 pm to
Get the Weber KettlePizza attachment.

Get a stone.

Get it searing hot and let it hold that temp for as long as possible before cooking on it.

LINK
This post was edited on 6/25/19 at 8:22 pm
Posted by USEyourCURDS
Member since Apr 2016
12056 posts
Posted on 6/25/19 at 8:34 pm to
That is on my list
Posted by jlnoles79
Member since Jan 2014
12738 posts
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:16 pm to
quote:

Parchment paper


This
Posted by SmokedBrisket2018
Member since Jun 2018
1516 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 8:17 am to
You need to invest in a stone or steel, and a pizza peel.
Posted by Tornado Alley
Member since Mar 2012
26480 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 9:54 am to
No one here has given me any advice as to my current setup and actual question. Y’all have all told me to buy something else.

Thanks, I guess.
Posted by SmokedBrisket2018
Member since Jun 2018
1516 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 9:57 am to
quote:

No one here has given me any advice as to my current setup and actual question.


Do you own parchment paper?
Posted by SmokedBrisket2018
Member since Jun 2018
1516 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:06 am to
quote:

No one here has given me any advice as to my current setup and actual question. Y’all have all told me to buy something else.

Thanks, I guess.



If all you have is a pan with holes, spray pam. Not sure it will prevent it from sticking but if that is all you own, then use it. If you have parchment paper, use that instead.

If you can set up something like this, do it, and put your pan on it.



If you just have bricks, do this as high as your lid allows.

This post was edited on 6/26/19 at 10:07 am
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
76443 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:22 am to
quote:

No one here has given me any advice as to my current setup and actual question. Y’all have all told me to buy something else.

Thanks, I guess.


You can't effectively cook pizza on your current setup.

So you're welcome, I guess.
Posted by dpd901
South Louisiana
Member since Apr 2011
7504 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:22 am to
quote:

No one here has given me any advice as to my current setup and actual question. Y’all have all told me to buy something else. Thanks, I guess.


What a douche.

Your problem IS your setup... people are telling you to get the correct set up.

I was going to tell you also to make sure all of the creosote burns off your charcoal and you only have clean heat before putting the pizza on, but frick yourself... throw it on there as soon as it gets hot.
Posted by NOFOX
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2014
9906 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:26 am to
quote:

How do y'all get the dough to not stick to the pizza pan? I have the type of pan which has a bunch of little holes in it so I'm not sure corn meal will work or stay in place. What about Pam?



(1) What's your dough recipe?
(2) What temperature are you cooking?
(3) Are you deflecting the heat someway or do you have the pan directly over the fire?
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
76443 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:32 am to
He's using a $5 aluminum "pizza pan" with air holes on it and is proposing to throw bricks (probably landscaping bricks) under the pan for deflection.

And OP is wondering why his pizza is so bad
Posted by pmacneworleans
Member since Dec 2013
1984 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:34 am to
You can buy a decent pizza stone for under $30. I have a Weber kettle, and I use the stone for pizza and get very good results. Let the kettle get hot, put the stone on it for at least 20 minutes and then add your pizza to it. Fewer toppings, the better.
What you are using is probably not going to get decent results unless you use parchment or pam. I had one of those perforated pans, and I tossed it.
Posted by SmokedBrisket2018
Member since Jun 2018
1516 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:44 am to
quote:

He's using a $5 aluminum "pizza pan" with air holes on it and is proposing to throw bricks (probably landscaping bricks) under the pan for deflection.



Ha. I am sure it's possible to produce an edible product. But he needs to get a stone.

Not sure why he got all snippy.
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
76443 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 11:10 am to
Putting raw homemade dough on that pan isn't going to go well. Especially since his kettle will lose all the heat when he takes the lid off.

That pan doesn't hold sufficient heat to cook the crust.

It'll be raw and burnt disaster.
Posted by SmokedBrisket2018
Member since Jun 2018
1516 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 11:26 am to
quote:

Putting raw homemade dough on that pan isn't going to go well.


Agree.
Posted by hashtag
Comfy, AF
Member since Aug 2005
27463 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 4:16 pm to
1. you need to preheat a stone of some sort.
2. put parchment paper on your holey pan.
3. put dough on paper and build pizza.
4. slide paper and pizza onto hot stone and cook.

bonus tip: don't use sugar in your dough as it will burn more easily if it contains sugar.
extra bonus tip: stop being a douche.
Posted by browl
North of BR
Member since Nov 2017
1571 posts
Posted on 6/26/19 at 9:59 pm to
You need a stone man. Get a pizza stone and a pizza paddle or peel, whatever you want to call it.

Preheat stone for 20-30 minutes make pizza quickly on peel sprinkled with coarse flour or corn meal, slide onto stone being mindful not to wiggle the ingredients off... done 5 minutes later. Best pizza you ever made.
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