OK... Thanks for you patience :-D
As I mentioned, assembly took less than an hour. The only tool required was a phillips screwdriver. The legs slid in place with spring loaded pins to hold them in and the side shelves are secures with threaded knobs.
I fired it up to burn off any residue from manufacturing and it took about 20 minutes to get to a stone temp of 650.
Once it was burned off I put together some pizzas for dinner. Since I want to learn the oven first I used fresh dough from Trader Joe's. I bought the plain dough and divided it into two balls and let them rest at room temp for three hours.
The first pizza didn't quite make it to round
, but was close enough. For the first attempt I went with a pizza margherita using TJ's pizza sauce, fresh mozzarella and fresh basil with a drizzle of EVOO.
I put it into the oven at a stone temp of 650 degrees.
This picture is crappy because it was getting dark.
It cooked for about 4 minutes until it was done. Once done I stuck it into the home oven to hold while I made a second pizza. This one got closer to round :-D.
This one has artichoke hearts, mushrooms, prosciutto, fresh spinach and whole milk mozzarella and a drizzle of EVOO. I put it into the Blackstone at a stone temp of 675 and it also took about 4 minutes.
After cooking I topped it with fresh arugula.
Here is both pizzas...
Here is the crust on the pizza margherita...
And here is the second pizza...
I'm impressed with the Blackstone. I need to work on the temp and timing to see what is best for me, and I want to start making my own dough and sauce, but that will come with time.