This is the first homemade pizza my family and I have ever made let alone using a pizza oven or PBC. My brother came up with his own sauce recipe and we made the dough in a Cuisinart bread maker using their recipe in the manual. We did mini pizza's because we wanted to do our own toppings per person. The pizza stone is an Emile Henry 14.5 in which is exactly the same one Amber used in their video online. We made 2 batches of pizza's but I only got pic's from the first batch. Also, since I was eating and watching a movie I sorta forgot to take stat's of the second batch, sorry.
filled coal basket full with KB and lit using fluid method. after waiting 24 min I threw 2 handful of hickory chips and put the pizza stone on the grate. the PBC settled between 333-340 and total cook time was about 43 min with ambient temp of 31 deg. both rods were out and vent was quarter open. i didn't crack the lid at the end of cook
I've never had a "proper" pizza as some have mentioned a wood fired pizza so I don't really have a comparison. The dough, sauce, and pizza itself were quite good, perhaps its was beginner luck. My sister in law said there was a definite difference in taste using the PBC vs the oven made pizza she has made before from scratch so I suppose using the PBC did add a different flavor. Since this was our first pizza there are a couple things we will try different next time in terms of sauce and dough. Also, I may try cracking the lid on the last 5-10 min to see what happens as well as using lump coal to see if that gives a hotter cook. All in all it was a great night and we had fun as a family creating and devouring the pizza!
Jason
