Our first nice day of spring here in the Pacific Northwest, with a clear sky and temps mid 70's, time to light off the portable outdoor pizza oven. I know, not really a smoking meat deal but most all the smoked meats we've been making over last few months will be toppings!
Start off by mixing up a simple French Bread dough:
4 cup water
7-8 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoon instant yeast
2 tablespoon salt
1/4 cup shortening
adjust flour so you get a loose & sticky dough, mix until shiny.
Should probably add that I have an antique Hobart 10 quart mixer, may need to half my formula for a modern Kitchenaid stand mixer.
While dough is rising, I need to clean out the oven for tonight's meal.
I fabbed this out of scrap steel and left over common red bricks from past garden projects. It all breaks down into pieces easily moved by hand, no mortar used just gravity holding it all together. Takes just shy of 100 bricks!
Pizza's are baked right on the floor of the oven, after an hour or so of heating up you push the coals and fire to back and brush the ashes away.
No special wood needed, just 2x4 scraps I burn in the house stove.
More to come as we get things going. My apologies to admin's if I posted in wrong forum, could not find on named worlds best homemade pizza pie's ;-)
Dan
Start off by mixing up a simple French Bread dough:
4 cup water
7-8 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoon instant yeast
2 tablespoon salt
1/4 cup shortening
adjust flour so you get a loose & sticky dough, mix until shiny.
Should probably add that I have an antique Hobart 10 quart mixer, may need to half my formula for a modern Kitchenaid stand mixer.
While dough is rising, I need to clean out the oven for tonight's meal.
I fabbed this out of scrap steel and left over common red bricks from past garden projects. It all breaks down into pieces easily moved by hand, no mortar used just gravity holding it all together. Takes just shy of 100 bricks!
Pizza's are baked right on the floor of the oven, after an hour or so of heating up you push the coals and fire to back and brush the ashes away.
No special wood needed, just 2x4 scraps I burn in the house stove.
More to come as we get things going. My apologies to admin's if I posted in wrong forum, could not find on named worlds best homemade pizza pie's ;-)
Dan
