It's time to go Vertical

[RCLake]

Well time for an update, the kids came down late Fri so I decided to try a couple of pizzas for us before they were here. Did Margeritas using tito 00 for the dough, crushed San Marzano tomatoes and a blend of four cheeses. The first one turned out just great, I didn't dust the peel as well for the second one so it didn't slide off as well .

On Friday I did a double batch for the dough and divided it up into 6 balls, used two of them and refrigerated the others for Sat.

[RCLake]

Sat, I made a batch of dough using bread flour, it appeared dryer and not as flexible. I made 7 pies and the tito balls where easier for me to form, but that is still a work in progress. By the last one I thought I was doing Dave's trick with the two hands a lot better. So there is hope.
My son tried doing one and had problems with holes, etc so he decided to make it a calzone turned out poor.
Two other mishaps occurred. On the second pie, I noticed it's a little hard to get the pizza back on the peel to turn it, at that time I was using my wooden peel and it was starting to char on the end. On my third pie trying to turn it I pushed it back into the ashes and fires so that ended up as a burnt offering to the WFO gods.

[RCLake]

The other mishap occured when we decided to do a dessert pie with chocolate, strawberries, graham crackers and mashmellows. Prepared that an placed it into the oven, it didn't take any time before the marshmellows were on fire. crust had barley started cooking. Wasted Pie.
We tried again but decided to cook the pie 75% and then add the ingredients. Turned out great.
So 5 out of 8 turned out on our kickoff night so I was pleased. All of us had a great time doing this and it got easier. I switched to get the pies out the oven to an aluminum peel and this helped a lot. I'll get a turning peel , with its smaller size I imagine it is easier to turn.

[RCLake]

I had a real good fire going and flames were traveling up the dome, the dome temp max out my gun and the floor was 900F. I was charring the edges of the pie but the bottoms were turning out great. I probably could have let the fires die down more.

[RCLake]

Originally Posted by gjbingham

Good to hear. How is heaven anyway. I'd be nice to know what I'm going to miss.

The little one of yours will convert you. Wrapped around the little finger Yet?

[dusty]

Very cool! Congrads, RC. Isn't it rewarding to finally start using it? It's funny, but I never doubted that the oven would cook good and I suspected that it would be fun, but I was most suprised by how very fun it was for everyone to use it. From stetching out the dough to pulling out the finished pie, everyone has had a great time. And quality family time too!

dusty

[Frances]

Congratulations Lake! Looks as if you had a great time! Cool!!

Thank you for posting all those pics. I burnt my wooden peel, the first time, too

[Acoma]

Agree. Congratulations on a successful build, cure, and oven festivity.

[Inishta]

RC............awesome! We have all been following the build and I'm sure we all feel the buzz with you. OK so it wasn't 100% but 95% is good..........

Enjoy

[gjbingham]

Great pics RC. You gotta be happy with those results! How's the oven holding up after the blazing fire?