Fab. I’ve got the 6520 used a couple of times but not with much success! I put the charcoal at the back as suggested? I don’t have a vortex! Could that have been the problem? Also any tip on how to clean the stone would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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I don't have one of these (I use a kettle pizza), but the concept is similar with all pizza cooks. If I am doing say 3 to 6 pizzas I generally light one heaping chimney of charcoal to start. If I am going for 10 or more pizzas I will also do about a half chimney of unlit charcoal and leave it in a couple baskets in the back of the grill. The idea is to have the coal in the back in a kind of "C" shape when lit. With just chimney of charcoal I might use one basket, with more I use two. With the pizza stone you want it toward the front of the opening so there is a open gap in the back and maybe sides.
Now the part that you might be struggling with us getting the kettle up to temp. This is where wood chunks come in. Throwing them on top of the lit coals will get it burning well over 600 degrees. The more wood you use hotter it will burn. I have had my baskets glowing when heat and quick cook time was necessary. I also keep ALL vents WIDE OPEN.
To make loading the wood chunks easier you might take an old flip up grate, take the handles off, and remove one of the flip ups and put the open side in the back. This way you can throw fire chunks in the back between pizzas. The wood burning not only gets you more heat but hits the top of the lid/6520 and reflects heat down on the pizza top cooking the top. If you have trouble with the pizza sticking to the stone you can also use parchment paper for the unloading. After a minute or two on the stone you can pull it off. The excess paper on the outside could burn off using parchment paper if it is hot but I don't think it hurts anything.
Just be mindful of the high heat as it is definitely hard on the kettles finish with the coals banked to the side of the kettle. I use a black kettle that is easily replaced, others will use whatever is in their scrap heap of black kettles.
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