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See Rak its no big deal.

I’ve had a tile or two pop during the venting process. I just pushed them back in place after I shut down the vents, and they settled in place. No big deal. FWIW, based on the reports of people’s venting experiences, I don’t think there’s anyone who messed up that process more than I did, in that I found bubbles of unvented areas six months into using Smaug. For some reason, I never really checked the back of Smaug for bubbles, and during a high heat cook I found a large bubble on the back, below the spring mechanism for the hinge. I was worried that because I had used Smaug quite a bit over that 6 months, and I never relieved the pressure in this bubble. I could only assume that the bubble kept popping up with my high heat cooks, and I never noticed it. I was afraid that this bubble was permanent. I used a knife to cut a slit in the grout towards the bottom of the bubble, and liquid came out. Once I did that, over time this area calmed down as well. The other piece of advice I like to pass on is not to be too concerned about helping the venting process by using an Exacto knife to cut a small slit to help the gas escape. I think I was a little too precious about that part, which I think is why it took me a while to have the bubbles settle down. If I hadn’t been so reluctant to help the process, the tiles would have settled down more quickly.

The gas normally just escapes through a little hole between the tiles/pebbles if there is gas in there. You know for searing you just have to get a good hot bed of lump burning, no need to heat the whole KK up to searing temp. I like my pizza just over the 500F but less than 600F. I hope some of this helps. Some day you'll experience all of this for yourself.