Everything that could go wrong did.
This was my first time using dough that was actual dough and not those flat pre-made pre-baked crusts. I bought two pouches of frozen pizza dough and the first mishap took place the night before while these were defrosting on the kitchen counter. I didn't realize the dough was active without being exposed to air so I didn't think it would start rising until I opened the packages. Well, in the middle of the night I heart two fairly loud poof sounds. I thought it was the cat so I ignored it and went back to sleep. When I got up in the morning and went into the kitchen, I saw the pizza dough had burst out of the packages and started spreading across the counter so I removed the remains of the packages and put the dough into bowls.
Then when I made the pizzas, I rolled out four crusts, put the sauce and toppings on, and got the Kettle Pizza rig going. This took enough time that I think the sauce started to seep through the dough to the cutting boards I was making the pizzas on. The pizzas stuck. Despite using what I thought was more than adequate corn meal. Getting them off the cutting boards onto the peel was a pain and then into the pizza stone in the barbecue was a nightmare. And by the time this was all ready to go it was nighttime, well after dark.
Most of the first pizza landed on the side of the barbecue, on the ground, and on the pizza stone. The mess on the stone burned up badly and the remaining three pizzas ended up cooking basically on top of a thick layer of carbon. I don't know how salvageable that stone is. I got three edible pizzas out of the deal. Two of them were actually quite nice.
I've attached pictures of the whole fiasco.
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