Baking Pizza on your Big Green Egg

with beautiful weather like we have today we encourage people man get outside try something new on the grill fire up the fire pit spend good quality time outside when it's just absolutely beautiful so today i want to get started by putting this pizza on uh because we're obviously going to have to allow it time to bake we're doing papa murphy's pizza most people are familiar with that love at 425 degrees and we're at 425 degrees with this egg ready to go with the current set up i've got a little cornmeal on top of a pizza stone on top of the convector that's in there we're set up as a wood fire oven cruising at 425 degrees we'll let our camera get a little bit closer look at that because i'm going to explain why we have it set up that way you see there's a gap underneath there with these three spots i'm going to show you another trick you may or may not have those at home we're going to get this pizza going because it's going to take i believe it's about 12 to 14 minutes i'm looking at my clock there so first question we'll get into is uh why do i have it set up that way i've got it set up that way with the feet down you can do it the other way where you have it feet up and a rack works just fine i prefer to do this way to get that stone a little more heat on that stone where i can get more of a wood wood fire crust the gap that you saw so you've got those feet that i use in there those used to come with a big green egg years ago they now have a different option with the table nest they don't provide the feet the other option you can do you can take some aluminum foil like this and water it up and do two or three of these and then just put the stone on top of that to give you the gap and you may be wondering well why do i need that anyway to be honest if you were cooking just one pizza we've got the next one here is getting will go on next if you were cooking just one pizza you could just throw that stone on there you'll probably be fine when we're cooking more than one pizza the concern would be that the stone is going to get so hot that it's actually going to cook the crust before the cheese gets the chance to melt hopefully that makes sense so you can just do this trick instead if you don't have that option cornmeal with papa murphy's you don't necessarily have to obviously it comes on the paper but i'm going to show you here in a minute a trick that we're actually when you order papa murphy's it comes on this paper but we're going to remove it from this paper you would have a hard time doing so before it's cooked to get that off of there uh but after cooks a little bit we're going to get that off and put it right on side the stone right on top of the stone to get kind of that wood fire crust so you don't necessarily have to at this stage you don't have to have the cornmeal but at the next stage we're definitely going to want to have that just so it doesn't stick i've got everything a good pizza peel a pizza cutter we get done we're going to eat outside so that's kind of that's kind of the goal there so we're cruising along i got this set up at 425 degrees uh just some tips about pizza or baking in general that i would say i love to bake on the big green egg i do it all the time we do papa murphy's and different types of pizza all the time you can make your own from scratch pizza as well [Music] but one thing i would say is very important is you want to plan ahead especially if you're doing if you're making pizza at home with your own made from scratch crust recipe that's going to take time to actually make the dough but you also want to make sure that you light the big green egg or whatever grill that you're cooking the pizza on much like an oven you want to make sure that you give it a chance to preheat i want the inside of the oven to be warm or in this case the big green egg but i also want to make sure that pizza stone is warm as well so and i've got our little little friend here that's looking for us just waiting for a scrap a piece of cheese or something to drop but i think a lot of us have those so that's that's one of the biggest things i would say don't get in a hurry come out and light the whatever your grill is get that pizza stone good and hot and then go back and sit down and just relax and make sure that the stone is what happens is a lot of times i think if people are cooking multiple pizzas they will notice that the second pizza is better than the first and then by the time they get to maybe that third pizza it's just perfect that's just because the time that the last that it actually had a chance to preheat so we've got this going in here we'll take a peek here in just a minute i'm going to show you a real real good trick as far as cooking papa murphy's pizza how you get it off that paper and get a really really good quality quality crust if you have questions put it in the comments again we'll address them there so i talked about that set up um trying to think if there's any any other things i would point out the pizza stone so we get a lot of questions from time to time people will say two things number one they'll say do you really have to have a pizza stone can i not just put the pizza right on that flat surface of the convector the answer i would say is yes you can cook there's so many ways you could cook pizza you could cook pizza directly on the convector itself two things i would be concerned about there if you're cooking more than one pizza that that is the direct heat source that's hitting that convector so it's going to get very hot it's going to get hotter than a pizza stone would um it's going to get really hot and you're probably if you're cooking more than one pizza i think you're going to start seeing that you're going to have a hard time melting the cheese before the crust is actually done the second thing is that convector is also you might have cooked pork shoulder brisket something like that the week before if you're using your egg a lot you're putting that convector in there when you're smoking and you're probably going to get a taste profile in your pizza that is not actually what you desire you want wood fire taste you don't want rib juice or you know fat dripping off a brisket that that's great but not on a pizza another point i would say you want to make sure you don't have leftover drippings from steak from the last night if you notice this is a hundred percent clear coming out the top of the egg there is no i don't put smoke in there i don't have any wood chips wood chunks that type of thing if that's your thing and you want smoked pizza go for it that's not a profile that most people flavor profile that most people are looking for so you want nice clean burn so that you don't have that smoky taste you just want that wood fire taste those are a couple points i would say are pretty important we're gonna go and take a peek here and see if we're ready to you want to keep the heat in as much as possible and what i'm gonna do is use this you pretty much have to have a pizza peel to do this but i'm going to start trying to see if i can remove we've got a little bit of coke on this now these are really handy we got a little dog fight in our backyard everybody's tensions are a little bit high so stay at home but you can see there i'm able to take this get that pizza off of the paper don't throw this away because this is one of the best things about papa murphy's we do it all the time shut the lid now we're going to let that continue to cook that heat will come back up i don't want to throw this away because i don't want to do any dishes when we're done we're going to take that pizza off when it's done now and put it right back on the right back on the paper carve it we've got our pizza wheel and everything just we're trying to encourage people just you know you have to stay home but you don't have to stay inside we're going to stay outside we're going to cut the pizza and we're going to eat it we're going to eat it right here so it took about five minutes and i was able to get that cooked enough that i was able to get that off of there so now we're starting to brown that crust underneath the way that we all like it wood fire taste so we're going to go the extra eight to nine minutes and finish cooking that pizza stone's good and hot the egg is getting hot i'm trying to think of there any other questions we always get asked uh pizza is one of those things i think that people wait a long time on a big green egg before they try it but once they try it it's one of the best things one of the best things that this thing can do but you can bake just about anything the pizza stone itself we always get asked do i have to do a big green egg pizza stone what about if i already have a pizza stone at home um what if it's a pampered chef pizza stone that i have you can use any pizza stone that you want in the big green egg i would just i always caution people if you have a pizza stone that you want to use uh as long as you're not emotionally attached to that pizza stone if you start putting it in here and you start experimenting with recipes a lot of these crust recipes literally call for 600 degrees and most of the pizza stones on the market cannot withstand 600 degrees so worst case scenario it's going to break when you try and cook your pizza so again as long as you're not emotionally attached to that pizza stone cook on it until it breaks but the big green egg stone is actually made out of the same ceramic that the big green egg is made out of which is intended to go all the way up to 2700 degrees that it's fired at so you're not gonna you're going to break that stone and it has a warranty if you do that would be the only thing i would say about the different stones but the stone is crucial i would do a stone versus not having the sun and then the only other thing i would say is make sure any time that you're baking we bake some biscuits the other morning you just want to make sure that you don't you know part of the reason why people will put foil on their convector when they're cooking things or we have the disposable drip pans let me grab one i always have one around you take these and actually this has there's a scrap for the dog that actually had a little drip in it you can buy these we sell these in the five pack for each of the size eggs the nice thing about this is if you were doing ribs or a brisket smoking something put this in underneath all your drippings hit this it's not falling on your convector so that when you decide to bake pizza you're not going to taste last week's ribs if you do get the points where your convector is dirty but you're like hey i want to cook pizzas but man look at all that mess on there just do a clean burn fire it up get it high temperature put it in there all that will burn off and scrape off and then you're then you're good to go so again we're cooking pizzas we're doing this today anyway we'll take another look here i'm getting hungry we're doing this every day at 1 o'clock something different every day a different location from time to time there's several of us are going to be doing this so send us your ideas and then remember again you can if you see anything that you need it doesn't matter what it is give us a call we can bring it to you you can go to outdoorhome.com and order it there and we'll bring it to you or ship it to you and then we now if you're not comfortable with coming in the store we're there but you can do curbside pickup a lot of people are doing that just call we'll bring it out to you but all this stuff if you want to come in and take a look and see the different options there's so many different things we've got uh of course there's over 200 accessories you can get for the big green eggs so lots and lots of options we're going to take another seat cheese is looking pretty good there and then i want to just get a peek of the seen wood fire we're going to let this go just a little bit more but i'm telling you if you've had papa murphy's pizza we do events from time to time we've been to egg fest at outdoor home in nixa and people we're always somebody doing papa murphy's and they they they don't think it's papa murphy's they try it that can't be popping i cook it at home all the time it doesn't taste like that um we never put papa murphy's pizza in the oven in this house it's just it is so much better it's so much better on the big green egg it takes a little more time to preheat it but it's worth it you get that wood fire flavor it's just incredible and there's no mess we do we do fresh from scratch pizza from time to time and maybe we'll even do one of those and that you know we've got 30 days of this stay-at-home thing so we're staying home we're not staying inside and we're here we're here for all the all your needs just give us a call come see us curbside whatever whatever works for you we're playing it safe i'm gonna go ahead and pull this off this is where this comes in handy i honestly think i had this from the very first treats ever made so you can tell it's got some wear on it i don't know how you get that pizza off there without this but at this point in time just pull it off set my paper down carve that and we are ready to eat and now of course same process my next pizza is ready to go uh these are all papa murphy's as i mentioned that was canadian bacon and sausage this is their herb chicken mediterranean delight i believe they call it um we have different uh different tastes obviously so put that on there shut it and we're good to go love it 425 as they say it papa murphy so

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Length: 12min 6sec (726 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 08 2021