A little Global Warming...

Well, it's the 24th of July~ Pioneer Day! It's only 98 degrees outside. We wanted to help Al Gore out with a little Global Warming so we invited Justin "T" and Kim and their kids (Justin is Scott's best friend growing up) over for a pizza party. We lit the fire and went swimming at Grandma's. Once we got back it was just about time to start the pizzas.

Starting the fire at 2:00 ~ and by 5:30 it's just about ready. Once it's at this stage the oven is HOT HOT HOT! If you put a log in the oven it would ignite in 15 seconds. But we take our handy dandy brass brush and brush all the coals to the back of the oven, do a quick mop of the oven floor and she is ready.


The pizza was again awesome. As you can see if you zoom in the oven is showing an easy 700 degrees. I am sure closer to the middle of the oven is much hotter. That pizza is just about done.

This was near the end of the eating. This is Justin T finishing up his. We had a great time with the Turks and ate some good pizza. It's so hard getting together in our busy lives but we need to work harder at getting together with them more often.

When the moon hits your eye......

like a big pizza pie, that's amore!

What a great night.
Pizza. Crazy bread. Cinnamon desert pizza. Good friends. I ate too much.
What more could you ask for.

We started up the oven at about 2:00 this afternoon and by 5:00 it was ready. I was really impressed at how well it held the heat. The insulation (pearl vermiculite) I installed really worked!!! As long as I kept the door closed except to retrieve pizza it held at 700 + all evening.

We started cooking at 6:00 and each pizza took about 3-4 minutes to cook. Jane & I got the dough ready and passed it off to someone to make their own pizza. We ate and ate and still had 6 dough balls left over.

Nothing like "Hand-Tossed"

So tonight we are having a brick oven party! Cooking pizza all evening with some (16) couples in the ward. So I have been calling around to see if we can buy pizza dough from Domino's or Pizza Hut or Papa Johns instead of making a ton of dough.

I called Pizza Hut and asked if we could buy dough and the lady on the other line say's....... "We don't have dough, well our dough is all frozen flat disks not dough balls." My next words are priceless..... "Eww, gross". I really said that.

"Frozen Disk of Dough"

What is amazing is that it's "Hand Tossed". How do they do that. I knew there was a reason I didn't like Pizza Hut Pizza. Eat at your own risk.
Anywho.... Papa Johns is willing and we will be picking up 16 doughballs at 5:00 this evening. Stay tuned for photos and details of our pizza fun!

Brick Oven

As some of you know, my spring project was a brick oven in our backyard. My thanks goes out to all who helped! We have cooked pizza, bread and even steak in our new oven. I must say the pizza is amazing. The oven gets to 800 degrees. A pizza will cook in about 2 minutes. The downside is it takes about 3 hours to heat it up.