The weirdness of the table setting aside, that’s a damn good looking pizza. Only thing I have to critique is the pepperonis don’t look finished, but at the same time I tend to have the same problem making a small pizza at home. I’ll take an uncripsy pepperoni over a burnt crust any day.
I have to agree with you. The one in the main picture was my wife’s and I stopped when the crust was very brown on the bottom. The one I made for myself I crisped the toppings but burnt the crust.
That’s really why you gotta put the time in to get the oven hot. Next time I’ll start preheating earlier.
I thought that paper was your crust from the thumbnail. I was deeply concerned about your ability to stretch dough. Like maybe you had no arms and made a little depression in the doughball with your forehead and put all the toppings in it.
It looked like you photoshopped a pizza and whatever surface it was on to your white table. Legit took me 30 seconds to realize that it was toasted parchment paper.
Is that a red egg grill? Those are wildly expensive.
Kamado Joe Big Joe III. $2600 I think when I got it a few years ago. Fortunately, it comes with basically everything you might want.
A kamado was on my wish list for 2 years before I sold my gas grill and pulled the trigger. So far no regrets, it has turned out some really great meals in every kind of weather.
It’s a real heavy bastard though.
Very very heavy. I always considered then over priced and not worth it. The good plus is they hold temp like a champ! The thermal mass being what it is and all. Do you think these types of grills have advantages over say a stainless gas, or charcoal, or any other fuel type? I honestly fail to see why their so expensive. Any ideas now that you have owned them? What’s the consensus from your view.
Also, I rotisseried my entire thanksgiving turkey in that thing last year lol. Tons of space for activities.
You can do pretty great cooking with charcoal and just a Weber kettle. I keep one of those as my back up that I got as a gift my first year in college… 20 years ago lol. But I think the answer is lump charcoal and not briquettes for taste, so that makes heat management for an 8 or 10 hour cook a very hands on experience.
So I see three big upsides of a ceramic grill, and I could have saved several hundred and got one size smaller without much loss, but I DO like to cook for a crowd.
First, like you said, this thing is a MONSTER at keeping temperature. I would not be afraid to leave it overnight with a brisket in it. There’s a YouTube channel called Smoking Dad BBQ where he did a 50 hour burn at 250F without touching vents or adding charcoal. It’s crazy. Of course, this one will hold almost a whole bag.
Second, there’s enough space in it that you can make the fire inefficient if you need to. Why would you want to do that? Well a problem with other charcoal grills is you lose the ability to do low temp smoking in a high quality way. A cold fire burns dirtier. So by putting a lot of “stuff” like heat deflectors and slow roller and whatever between the food and the fire, you can use a hot bed of coals (clean smoke) and still get temperatures as low as about 170F. I make my own jerky and smoke my own jalapenos to make my own chili powder.
Third, it is truly all season. I can do 800F+ even when it’s 0F outside. I could never get my other grills to do that so I was left to wearing over the chimney starter and no pizza.
The last thing that really pushed me over the edge has nothing to do with food prep and everything to do with longevity. This guy is a giant piece of ceramic with great customer support (I’ve had 2 minor issues and Kamado Joe has sent replacements free) and basically no moving parts that can fail besides the hinge and the bolt on the control tower. I plan to use this thing for decades to come. I have extra gaskets and stuff like that in case they ever fail. No gas grill I’ve had has lasted longer than about 5 years.
If I had unlimited money, I’d also have an offset smoker, but this one grill does pretty much every style of cooking already. I guess that really makes about 5 things… But yeah I like it.
What is it on?
