| Barbecue Pizza! Why barbecue a pizza? The simple | | | | to slide your pizza off of the peel on to the |
| answer is fast cooking. | | | | barbecue grill. This method cooks your pizza directly |
| To make great pizza your pizza should cook fast and | | | | on the grill. Close your barbecue top and check your |
| fast cooking is one of the secrets to making a | | | | pizza in a few minutes. It won't take long before the |
| perfect pizza pie.The main reason is that barbecues | | | | crust of your pizza begins to char. You want some |
| can reach very high temperatures! Some of the best | | | | charring all around your crust. Be sure to take your |
| pizzas that I have tasted were cooked in wood | | | | pizza out before the cheese starts to burn. |
| burning ovens. For centuries people around the world | | | | 2. The second method that I use is less messy. I |
| have been cooking in wood burning ovens. These | | | | stretch out a large piece of aluminum foil and lightly |
| ovens and also, professional pizza ovens can reach | | | | spray olive oil on it. After stretching my dough out, I |
| the high temperatures of 800 to 1200 degrees. At | | | | place it on the aluminum foil. Put your pizza sauce, |
| these high temperatures a pizza cooks in only 2- 5 | | | | toppings and cheese on it. Now, crimp the ends of |
| minutes. | | | | the aluminum foil so that you can grab it and pick up |
| Here are three ways that you can make pizza on a | | | | the whole pizza on the aluminum foil. Carry the pizza |
| barbecue. | | | | over to your heated barbecue and place it on the grill |
| First, Heat your barbecue to the highest temperature | | | | and close your barbecue. Check your pizza in a few |
| that it will reach. My barbecue reaches 600 degrees. | | | | minutes. |
| Stretch your dough out into a small circle that will fit | | | | 3. The third way is to use a pizza stone on your |
| on your barbecue. | | | | barbecue. I have tried fire bricks, clay tiles and pizza |
| 1. Use a wooden peel. (This is a shovel like tool used | | | | stones. They all work fine. Heat your pizza stone in |
| to put pizza or bread in the oven) First spread | | | | your barbecue for at least 30 minutes before placing |
| cornmeal on your peel. The cornmeal acts like tiny ball | | | | your pizza on it. When your barbecue is up to |
| bearings helping to slide the pizza off the peel on to | | | | temperature use the same technique of sliding your |
| the barbecue. Put your stretched dough on your peel | | | | pizza off of the wooden peel as described in my first |
| and place all your toppings on it. When your barbecue | | | | method. |
| is heated to temperature, use a little jerking motion | | | | |