Sarah's Progress Photos

[Les]

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pizza with blue cheese and pears on a rye crust (how much of the audience did I lose there?)

Sarah[/QUOTE]

Blue cheese and pears? That just doesn't sound right

Les...

[oventhusiast]

My husband thinks we should coat the entire dome in castable refractory - any comments?
Yeah, It's a waste of time. Don't do it!
Rick

[oventhusiast]

Hope you can understand the last post. I can't seem to do that 'quote thingy'.
Rick

[gjbingham]

Originally Posted by Kemo

George,

I went so far as to purchase the instructional video from the US Pizza team website on how to toss dough. Its a little rubbery piece that resembles a 14" dough disk. its actually quite fun and addictive. I sling it around the office at work. People think im an idiot though

Ha! Great idea. I figured there'd be something out there like the rubber pizza. Ill see if I can find it. People already think I'm an idiot so they won't be surprised by this. Now, where did my rubber chicken go?????

Sara, your pear pizza with blue cheese sounds pretty yummy to me. Those pears will carmelize nicely. I've seen a lot stranger combinations than yours over the years (as the Navy dragged my butt around the world). I say, anything goes. The dog will always eat it if its not fit for consumption.

[Frances]

I think pear with blue cheese pizza sounds great, too. And the more fires I light, the less I think a pompeii oven needs any additional mass.

Here's another song for your oven Sarah: "And another dome beats the frost. And another dome beats and another dome beats, and another dome beats the frost..."

[Kemo]

I have had a Pear-Gorgonzola cheese salad before...and I must say it was quite tasty. I think it even had Walnuts in there. I think the two compliment one another nicely. Sounds like a plan. I would think that you would want to leave out the tomato sauce and sub in some EVOO (ala Rachel Ray) instead.

[christo]

Sarah - just wonderful. Very happy for you.

Rye, corned beef and sourkraut pizza for me please!!!!

[sarah h]

For Rick - some pics of the cracks on the front of my dome - the first one, of a cold oven, shows the width - see the quarter stuck in it (BTW, the dome has not turned green, it's just a reflection). The second one was taken when the oven was hot - hard to tell but its a bit more than two-quarters wide and I can see firelight through it - definitely in need of patching, but the oven is still standing ... and cooking. I really don't know if I should be worried (the crack carries up about three or four rows but is only open at the point where I stuck the quarter) - guess it's a wait & see thing.

Another thing - tonight when the oven got hot, the chimney pipe cracked at the back, right from top to bottom ! It was pretty scary to see and hear - it made a loud noise - and we kept expecting it to fall apart but it held together. I was going to take a pic but was busy cooking. Them, when I went out an hour or so later, it had closed right up again. I don't know if this means it needs to be replaced or if I should just leave it alone unless it falls down?!

I couldn't let that heat go to waste tonight so we threw together a hasty meal and cooked it in the oven. The last pic is of the pans as it cooked but to see what it was, you'll have to go to the "What I Cooked Last Night" thread (even though it was today) .

[sarah h]

PS - can't resist throwing in a white dome shot!

[Gentcpa]

The white dome shot is a very cool picture. You can almost imagine a cooking demon jumping out...