I wanted to cook on the Master-Touch tonight. This is the first run on it since installing the new handles.
I also wanted pizza. I have never really done pizza on the grill, so I figured a good test run would be a "take and bake style" rather than from scratch. It turns out, Papa Murphys has kid size pizzas (7 inch) for a low price. In addition to the full sized pizzas that we cooked in the oven, I grabbed a few of these small pies to test on the grill. They come with the dough rolled out on the paper tray, and the kids put the included sauce, cheese, and pepperoni on themselves when arriving home:
I arranged the charcoal in the same manner I do when indirect grilling anything else. I banked the coals at the front of the grill in a crescent shape, and positioned the vent along the back. In order to raise the pies away from the fire and toward the lid, I inverted another grill grate and placed it on top of the main grate:
Here is a (gratuitous handle) shot showing the thermometer at 425, which is the recommended oven baking temperature:
This is what they looked like as I took the first batch off after nearly 14 minutes. As you can see, these are little pizzas and there was no danger of them burning the paper tray that you bake them on because they were so far from the coals. You can also see where the coals were placed in this shot. I used te baskets upside down to hold the coals in place, though I typically do not worry about that when grilling indirect.
Finished product is below. This was a total success, just like baking them in an oven at 425. I did turn them once midway through the cooking to ensure they were even. I doubt that was needed. For what it is worth, I used K Blue and just a few bits of apple chips. There was no smoke flavour to speak of, so I may introduce more chips or use actual wood chunks next time, but I want to be clear, I was not really shooting for "wood fired brick oven pizza" I will also try a full sizer pie at some point as well, although the simplicity and fun of the kid size pizzas really was ideal and made it easy to cook evenly. It would be a fun party idea to let folks build their own and cook them two or three at a time.
I know this is not as impressive as a home made dough and super high heat wood fired pizza, but I am glad to have tried it.
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