I had a 3-day weekend and was really looking forward to not having to be anywhere, or do anything too demanding. I was really hoping to submit an entry for the burger throw down, but didn’t have the time to do it the way I intended. We still enjoyed some mighty fine burgers Saturday evening though!
I had pizza on the menu for Sunday, and was able to get a few pics of this cook. It had been several weeks since my last pizza cook and was looking forward to making some pies! My M-I-L and her husband (Barb & Phil) had not had the kettle fired pizza yet, and finally accepted my invite to join us.
We started off with a big pile of hot wings. I cooked these on my Gen 2 Performer. Standard stuff…Franks Hot Sauce, with a touch of butter. I could eat these all night long.
Just a “plated” pic lol. I had way more than these four…
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I dumped the burning coals, from the hot wing cook, into my SS Performer and added a small split of Red Oak. From this point on, I only used small splits of Red Oak to fire the Kettle Pizza. The splits were about 12” long and not very thick, maybe 2”-3” max. I made two cheese pizzas, two pepperoni pizzas and one that had baby spinach, fresh mozzarella and crumbled feta cheese.
Prepped pepperoni ready for the fire
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Pepperoni in the oven.
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This one is done.
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Spinach, fresh mozzarella and crumbled feta cheese.
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Spinach done.
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Barb & Phil really enjoyed the wings and pizza! It’s pretty cool to see how amazed people are, when they see you make a pizza like this for the first time. It makes the effort that much more worthwhile! Thanks for looking!