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Babbling Farker
I have never tried to cook pizza's in my vertical cabinet. Quite a few on my drum. I've never had this cooker above 450*. Even while burning pure wood down in the coal box/normal area.
I moved one of my coal baskets up into the cooking area. And as my regular pizza stone does not fit this cooker.
And I used 2, 12" ceramic tiles I had laying around. Again, new experiment. One for the pizza and one to reflect heat back down to cook the toppings.
Yesterday I made semolina flour/reg flour dough. Cooked down 1 can of diced tomato's and 1 can of tomato paste. Plus onions, olive oil, garlic etc etc.
So everything was ready for today.
Dough had risen nicely. Made the basic pies. Made them on parchment paper for ease of moving. My pizza peels do not fit this cooker either.
Sauce, onion, fresh mozzarella, pepperoni, and some smoked Spam cubed up.
Got the fire going. Cabinet came up to 520* with in 15 mins.
Put on the first smaller pizza.
Bottom was cooked nice, but the toppings were not cooked to where I had wanted them. Again an experiment.
Second pizza, I raised the cooking grate up one slot to move it closer to the top ceramic tile.
This helped. But still needs adjustment. I might lower the coal basket and or raise the cooking grate even closer to the top grate.
So, on with the photo's.
Thanks for lookin!
I moved one of my coal baskets up into the cooking area. And as my regular pizza stone does not fit this cooker.
And I used 2, 12" ceramic tiles I had laying around. Again, new experiment. One for the pizza and one to reflect heat back down to cook the toppings.
Yesterday I made semolina flour/reg flour dough. Cooked down 1 can of diced tomato's and 1 can of tomato paste. Plus onions, olive oil, garlic etc etc.
So everything was ready for today.
Dough had risen nicely. Made the basic pies. Made them on parchment paper for ease of moving. My pizza peels do not fit this cooker either.
Sauce, onion, fresh mozzarella, pepperoni, and some smoked Spam cubed up.
Got the fire going. Cabinet came up to 520* with in 15 mins.
Put on the first smaller pizza.
Bottom was cooked nice, but the toppings were not cooked to where I had wanted them. Again an experiment.
Second pizza, I raised the cooking grate up one slot to move it closer to the top ceramic tile.
This helped. But still needs adjustment. I might lower the coal basket and or raise the cooking grate even closer to the top grate.
So, on with the photo's.
Thanks for lookin!
