12/26/99 - Pizza

12/26/99 - Pizza on the BGE
	My wife was kind enough to get me a 13 inch pizza stone (medium BGE) and a pizza paddle (Spin calls it a 'Pizza Peel' and he's probably right). This is a lot more work than picking up the phone and having one delivered. The 1st step was to make the pizza sauce courtesy of a recipe posted by Spin in the recipe section of the BGE Forum. Next we fried up a few Italian sausages so the grease didn't get on the pizza.
	I made 2 pies - one was about 13 inches and the other was about 7 inches. They were topped with the recommended cheeses, Italian sausage and pepperoni. Not perfectly round, but looked good just the same. Three fire bricks were placed on the main grid on their sides and the pizza stone placed on the fire bricks - pizza stone pre-heated with a little corn meal covering the stone.
	The pizza was excellent - the sauce was absolutely great. Even my wife commented that next time (and not too far in the distant future) we'll do the sauce recipe times 4 - more pizza, less work! Thanks Spin! I used a cooking time of 12 minutes with a temp of about 450 degrees - I was having a problem getting the temp back to the recommended 500 degree mark so I increased the time by a 2 minutes. The pizza stone was covered with corn meal before putting the pizza on the stone and crust was crispy tan. The second pizza (about 7 inches) actual turned out a little better and was much easier to get into the grill.
01/02/2000 - The pictures below are from our 2nd attempt at pizza on the BGE - the 2nd was even better than the 1st. Naturally we used Spin's sauce recipe. This one was cooked at 500 degrees (dome) for 11 minutes.


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