Author: Kristina O'connor
Works great. Very happy with purchase. Did find that the temperature recommendation was low==pizza didn't cook well enough. I turned the grill temp up and the pizza cooked great. Now I just need to find a great pizza dough recipe!
Author: Bob
I bought this item for a couple of reasons. I've been using a stone for making pizzas for a year or so in my indoor oven. It recently broke and I needed a replacement. I've also recently acquired a decent gas grill for outdoors. I read about cooking pizzas on a grill outdoors and figured this was a great idea. The grill gets much hotter than my oven (between 600 and 700 degrees whereas my oven is straining to hit 550) and I had read in my pizza bible "American Pie" that you should get your oven as hot as possible.
I received my stone on Friday and took a shot at my first pizza on Sunday. I learned an important lesson on the first couple of tries. I can get the grill up to 600 degrees easily (according to the built in thermometer on the grill lid), but the stone temperature hits almost 700 degrees ( have an Infrared thermometer which is great for getting the temp of the stone). As opposed to a conventional oven with heating elements on top and bottom, the grill heats from below, and the complete lack of insulation of the lid of the grill allows the heat to radiate away fast enough that the pizza will brown quickly on the bottom, but not be browned on top. My next attempt was at a much lower temp. About 400 deg on the lid thermometer and around 350 on the stone. This cooled slower than what I am used to in my indoor oven, but the top and bottom of the pizza crisped up at about the same time leading to a very nice result.
One other note on this stone. I could have probably gotten a replacement stone for around $30 that would have worked fine on the grill. I like the metal stand that comes with this stone. It helps keep the pizza from sliding away when sliding the peel under it.
Author: Nelson
We have had the pizza stone for a few months now. Yesterday while it was heating up (all three burners at about half) the stone broke in two. It happened with the cover down and obviously we had not touched it.
