Camp Chef Artisan Pizza Oven First Cook

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This video is part of the Camp Chef Explorer 14 x 2 cooking series.
Disclaimer I'm not sponsored by Camp Chef, I purchased this portable grill for use at home, camping, and wherever I may roam and will provide my personal views and opinions without any influence.
Today is the day for the first pizza cook! If you saw the unboxing video you're aware of the baking stone fail. That was corrected very quickly by the customer support team at Camp Chef. They were very helpful and sent a new stone without any nonsense.
You can't have a good pizza without a good dough. You can buy, or make this ahead of time. What I make can be for pizza, bread, rolls, etc...
Note - flour and water are measured by weight.
Here's the details to make an approximate 1lbs +/- dough ball. This is the total ingredient amounts you'll need.
10 oz - mineral water (we use bottled). City water here is not good due to the amount of treatment. Well water not good, often too much iron. Water from a softening system has too much salts...
1 lbs - “00” flour. AP flour doesn't get the same result.
2 tsp - instant yeast.
2 tsp - honey.
2 tsp - kosher salt.
Start your preferment the day before.
All water.
5 oz - “00” flour.
1 tsp - yeast.
All honey.
Combine well and seal it. Place in fridge minimum 8hrs, up to 24hrs. (I did 24hrs) It will separate overnite, I gently stir after the first 6hrs, then back into the cold until it's time.
Bring your preferment to room temp before the next phase. You'll thank yourself later. Make sure you have a place that's 72 - 78degF to rest this.
Combine the last of the flour, yeast, AND SALT with preferment. Use a mixer and hook, or the old fashioned way like I do. Once well combined, rise covered, minimum 30mins, until double in size.
Next, kneed. Adding small amounts of flour if needed, don't make it dry! It should be sticky, and not sloppy...
Portion/divide as needed now. Place in covered containers with a small amount of oil to coat (I used EVOO) Rise covered until doubled 1 - 2hrs?
Preheat your oven to 400F, OR your grill to 425-450F. We use pizza stones no matter the method.
Last kneed, form shapes, top/prep for bake.
Beside cheese, we don't add more than 3 toppings per pizza. Make four personal size if you want variety.
The key is placing your pizza in the cooker and leaving it long enough to set before you touch it. 15 - 18mins seemed to work well in a preheated Artisan Pizza Double Oven.
Bake as needed, don't let the internal temp of the bread/crust exceed 210deg F unless you like dry and likely burned.
Make sure to watch to the end for the bloopers.
Big shout out to the following -
Hartville Hometown Meats & Seafood Company, North Canton Ohio. welovemeats.com
If you're around the area stop in for daily specials, sign up for the latest sales, news, and get better deals than most markets for high quality products and specialties made in house!
Check out DP Jackson Steakhouse 6823 Wales Ave NW, North Canton, OH 44720. We've been there and were very impressed with the service and the food.
They also have The Blazing Pig 6817 Wales Ave NW, North Canton, OH 44720. Looking forward to visiting them soon.
Big thanks also to my other butchers I depend on very much for their high quality products and great service every time -
Sugar Valley Meats, Sugar Creek Ohio. sugarvalleymeats.com
Agnes Meats, Navarre Ohio. agnesmeats.com
3D meats, Dalton Ohio. 3-dmeats.com
And as always, don't forget to stop over and visit our friends ‪@thedrunkencouplecooks‬ for some fun. Please remember they are trying to provide comedy/entertainment. If you don't remember how to laugh, it's not for you...
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[@Scott-tq3fx]

Oh no, this is terrible, now I have to buy me a pizza oven! :) Love the blooper - Its important for people to see that everything doesn't always work out, even for people who have made something many times before. The good news is that a pizza that is messed up is still a pizza. You just might have to eat it with a fork. Or a spatula, depending on how cultured you are.

[@PitMasterJBackyardBBQ-up2rj]

Yes, you need a pizza oven! I actually expected something, somewhere to go wrong so I kept recording. It's good to see where the issue began and the disaster that follows! It was still pizza, I just pulled out what I could and put on a pan. Thanks for watching!

[@thedrunkencouplecooks]

Oh no! were you able to clean it up well? Hopefully it still tasted like a pizza.... can't really go wrong no matter what shape it is. I have a feeling we might have to get a pizza oven too. 😁

[@PitMasterJBackyardBBQ-up2rj]

This was a really big mess! I had to take it apart and bake the stone to get it cleaned up. Think about a pile of burned cheese, sauce, peppers, mushrooms & pepperoni smoking the place up, just to be able to scrape it down! What I salvaged was good, had to eat with a fork. The pizza oven is nice, just have to learn from my mistakes... Thanks for watching!

[@PhilFry-gj6xq]

Nice! Love homemade pizza. We've had fails like that too, it's gonna happen sooner or later. We had a big mess that was not fun cleaning up.

[@PitMasterJBackyardBBQ-up2rj]

Thanks for watching! You got that right. I'll do a follow up this summer and make the pizza the right size this time.