Chris and I got each other the Big Green Egg for Christmas. We love to cook food on our gas grill, but we've had it for almost ten years now. Chris was ready to try something new in the form of charcoal and smoking. The first attempt at pork chops turned out a little smoky, but everything else has been wonderful.
One of the things that Chris wanted to try immediately was homemade pizza. We also asked for and got the pizza stone insert for the Big Green Egg for Christmas for just that purpose.
We've made homemade pizza before, but we were never satisfied with the dough/crust recipe. Chris researched the perfect pizza dough and found Peter Reinhart's recipe. Sam was very interested in helping to make pizza since it's one of his favorite foods. Chris was skeptical of the recipe as they were making it. It required overnight fermentation and didn't look like what he expected when the first step was completed.
The dough recipe makes enough dough for six small pizzas. You can keep it refrigerated until you are ready to use it, so we decided to just make four pizzas the next day. Chris pulled it out of the fridge, let it come up to room temperature and rise, and it started looking pretty good.
This video is dark, so you can't see much, but you can see the flames around the pizza stone. We were worried the pizza wasn't going to slide off the cookie sheet well, but it came right off!
The finished product was quite tasty! The crust was exactly how we like it. One trick that Chris learned quickly was that cornmeal burned on the grill, so he switched to flour to get the pizza to slide off the cookie sheet. I think he might have had to slightly lower the original temperature too. We ended up cooking the last two pizzas on the pizza stone in the oven a few days later and it worked out great there too. It sure was fun and yummy and I hope we try it again soon. Thanks to Lulu for taking pictures and thanks to Aunt Sharon for the pizza stone!
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