You'll never order another pizza

When I tell people that one of the best things you can put on your grill is a pizza I get a lot of blank stares. It seems a lot harder than it really is and the results will leave you turning you noses up at fast food pizzas forever. Pizza really is one of those things that benefits from a real fire and chances are that grill in your backyard is the perfect tool for making the perfect pizza.

All pizzas start with the dough. When grilling a pizza you want a good dough that will hold up to being transported and turned on the grill. Rollout your dough about 1/4 inch thick and try to keep it pretty even. Pizza is a very forgiving dish so you don't need to break out the calipers for this one. Just keep the dough uniform and well floured.

When it comes to the grill, keep it clean and well oiled. You need the pizza dough to slide on the cooking grate. If it sticks you'll be out some dough. What you want to do is take the rolled dough rounds and lightly grill them. You can grill them on one side or both. If you just grill one side put your toppings on this side before you return it to the grill. Either way, with the bare dough rounds lightly browned, put your toppings on and turn down the heat on your grill. If you are using charcoal you will want one side hotter than the other so you can put the topped pizzas on the cooler side. The goal here is to get the toppings heated and any cheese melted before the crust burns.

As with all grills, keep a close eye on the pizzas. With the lid down you can bake the toppings to get your pizza just right. If you are using heavy toppings, like meats or thick cut vegetables you might want to grill them up a little first before you cut them up and put them on the pizza. While the grill is a great place to cook pizzas the intense heat can burn through crusts pretty quickly. You don't want cold toppings on a burnt crust.

Now that you have the basics down you can enjoy the best part of pizza, the versatility. When it comes to pizza, there's no such thing as a bad topping. Another tip is to make small pizzas for gatherings and let your guest choose what they want on their pizza. The grill is a fast way to prepare pizzas so you can cook a lot of them in a short time.

 

BBQ Trivia Game

A. Interrogation

B. Carburetion 
C. Negotiation 

D. Cooking

A. Natural Gas

B. Propane (LP) 
C. Charcoal

D. Hardwood 

A. Bavarian Temperature Utility

B. Boston Trade Union 
C. British Thermal Unit

D. Baking Time Usage 

A. Japan

B. Taiwan 
C. Korea

D. Canada 

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Henry Ford 
C. James Watt 

D. John Kingsford 

A. Carmelization

B. Browning 
C. Decarboxylation

D. Isomerization

A. 145 degrees

B. 155 degrees 
C. 165 degrees

D. 175 degrees 

A. Hamburg, Germany

B. A White Castle Restaurant 
C. Chicago, Illinois

D. St. Louis, Missouri 

A. Venturi Tubes

B. The Regulator 
C. Control Valve Orifice

D. The Fuel Transport Line

A. Weber-Stephen Company

B. Dynamic Cooking Systems 
C. Char-Broil Corporation

D. Chicago Combustion Corp. 

Thank you SO much!!!

I love the trivia game...I just found out the husbands are coming for this party, so they'll hopefully be interested in these questions!

I'll let you know how it goes!

jody

WOW! What great tips! Do you have the answers to the trivia questions??? Hope that doesn't make me sound dumb  

TIA

Marianne

UH YUP! I feel dumb!! Just saw the answers at the bottom!!!  

Hey, I didn't get much sleep last night - LOL

 

WOW, Virginia!!! These are awesome tips, ideas, & recipes!!! Two thumbs up for sure! LOVE the game, too. Think I will add a HOT Topic! link to this thread so it doesn't get buried on the board & it'll be just a click away.

 

Hey, thanks, again!! That's why I just LOVE LOVE LOVE this board of ours: it's FULL of the friendliest, most helpful people around!!! You ladies (& gents) are dah best!!

 

 

PS  Now I'm thinking with all this great info there might not be a need for my stuff. Though I think I'll work on it anyway....I will DEFINITELY be adding all this info into my BBQ folder.

Bumping for Karen and Geli and everyone else!  lol!

 

BTW, this thread is conveniently located in our Hot Topics!! section.

 

Michelle

Love these!  Thanks,  Ann R.

I do pizza on the grill parties every summer, we always use boboli.  Raw dough is just too much work.  Bobolis work wonderful on the grill.  Just leave them on til the cheese is melted, and they're done.

Debra

Has anyone tried PC pizza crust and roll mix for the pizzas on the grill?

Hey look what was in my inbox when I checked email...a pizza grilling video...there were also several pizza grilling recipes there...check it out!

 

Leisa

 

Wow!! Awesome AWESOME vid there, Leisa!! Thanks ever so much for sharing it with us. LOVE it!!

 

Now if I can just get a taker for this kind of show....