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There's a pretty thorough recent discussion here.

I'm sure there are other discussions on the forum, too. It's great for pizza, and the topic comes up a lot.

I think Dennis makes a stone. I don't recall if anyone uses the deflector as a pizza stone. I use Fibrament - good weight, durable. (I use Another Manufacturer's Cooker, so do not have Dennis' stone or deflector.)

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Hey Bob

Pizza is now a weekly event at our house and it's dead easy. The stone that comes with the K.K. on the upper sear grill works great. I preheat the stone as the K.K. heats up to as high as I can get it. So far with a full basket of charcoal we can get to 750. A thin crust pizza take between 7 and 9 minutes.

We use caputo oo chef's flour ( sometimes called pizzeria flour ). One bag, with app. 550 ml. h20, 5 teaspoons salt and 1 tablespoon dry active yeast is my recipe but I'm sure others work great. Remember not too much sauce or too much cheese!.

The K.K. makes a great outdoor pizza oven, it was one of the biggest factors in buying one. Good luck with the pie, Robby

Also use the heat deflector or the crust will burn

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Take a look at these websites for recipes they have an incredible amount of information. I have made pizza 3 times now in my KK at 700 deg. using lump charcoal and have been amazed at the complexity of the flavor. I'm also using a combination of commercial yeast and a natural starter. The texture and flavor DO NOT compare to an oven made pizza.

www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm

www.pizzamaking.com

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Fresh from the BLASPHEMY DEPT:

For the lazy and hurried,even frozed pizzas (DiGiornos,et.al)

are better when cooked over charcoal. Heat-soak the dome to

450 and place directly on the top grill with a deflector below.

dub(NOT gonna say it's just as good)

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I've become quite a fan of what someone called "cheater pizza". I put the stone or other heat-deflector on the lower rack and a half-baked Zachary's deep-dish chicken special directly on the grill. Adds nice smoke flavor and crisps the crust. And dead-simple lazy, too.

The people at the store always ask if I've made the half-baked before and it's fun to see their expression when I say, yes, just pop it on the BBQ...

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OK here's my latest and best experiment ussing the KK. Temp was 700 pizzacooked in 3 min.! Next time I'll use different charcoal I used the Royal Oak lump (from ecuador) and thought it was horrible I had a hard time keeping the temps up and got very little flavor from it. The pizzas came out perfectly cooked top and bottom.

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