Pizza on the Big Green Egg

Now that we have the plate-setter for the Big Green Egg the next step was to make pizza. We didn't know where to start given that we'd never even used a baking stone before, but somehow we muddled our way through with delicious results.

The first step was to light the coals and place the plate-setter with the "legs down" as pictured in the last post. This brings the baking stone surface closer to the top of the Egg, and preheats it.

We made a standard recipe of bread dough in the breadmaker. We spread the dough fairly thick on a pizza pan, and then pried it up carefully, placed cornmeal on the pan and laid the dough back down on the pan. The cornmeal prevented the dough from sticking to the pan while we put the toppings on it. The pizza was transferred from the pizza pan directly onto the plate-setter in the egg with some kitchen utensils. You can grease the plate-setter or baking stone, or you can sprinkle flour on it. Make sure not to overlap over the edges of the plate-setter.

Baked the pizza for about 20 mins at about 350F. The next pizza baked for 15 mins at 400F - 425F and had a crispier crust. I would definitely try this again! The tricky part is assembling the pizza and transferring it to the egg.