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Monday, July 21, 2008

Wood Fired Pizza from your gas grill!


So we thought we'd experiment. We like wood fired pizza but that is way down on the list of things to build at Buzzards Peak so what might be tasty and not heat up the entire house during this scorching (haha) summer heat? I bought a pizza stone at Goodwill ($3) so I didn't break the one, I just realized, that I got at a garage sale (like $5).
I put the stone on the cold gas grill and turned all three burners on to low and then gradually increased the heat until it was around 500 degrees in there.
Then we put some wood chips in metal smoker box and got that really smokin'. You can use an aluminum pie tin or foil with some holes poked in it for the chips, too.
So, when it's got a lot of smoke coming out, slide your homemade pizza onto the hot stone with a pizza peel and close the lid. No peeking for about ten minutes to keep the smoke in. Then peek and see if the cheese is melted and the center bubbly. when it is use your peel to take the pizza out.
It won't be a browned on top because there is no upper heat element like in an oven but my. did it taste good!

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