Date:         Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:52:34 -0700
Reply-To:     Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Stoned pizza
Comments: To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
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So you don't put tomatoes on your pizza? Peppers? Both New World
foods, not know before 1492.

tim

On 6/15/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Al's right -- no water on stone, and Home Depot tiles work fine.
>
> I've done pizzas with and without cornmeal. I don't use it any more --
> it burns and flavors the bottom of the pizza with an "off" flavor
> (corn's a New World crop, not part of the Old World flavor palette).
> Using a peel, my pizzas come off the stone w/o difficulty. When the
> stone is cooled I clean it with the scraper edge of a BBQ cleaning brush
> thingy.
>
> I prefer simple southern Italy pizzas made with few good-quality
> ingredients Margherita, Napoletana, aglio e olio, etc.) not the
> overloaded-with-toppings type popular in some American pizza joints, so
> I don't have to worry about drippings turning into "epoxy." YMMV.
>
> Serve with a good Cabernet or Chianti. Invite us over.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> Pensioner typed:
> > A square unglazed 'quarry tile' available at various home improvement
> > places, tile purveyors, flooring companies and so on, makes a fine pizza
> > stone.  Don't forget the polenta (coarse corn meal) to sprinkle on the stone
> > to prevent any pizza epoxy deposits.  You can heat the pizza stone/ quarry
> > tile in a pyromid.  The square quarry tile also works as a reg'lar baking
> > stone of course.  Muffings, cathead biscuits, cornbread in cast iron... the
> > opportunities are limited only by your imagination.
> >
> > Word of caution, do not WASH the stone.  Unglazed as it is it can absorb
> > enough water than when heated it can a poor imitation of an IED and self
> > destruct.  Just scrape it off occasionally or replace it when it's deemed
> > unsuitable.
> >
> > Heat the stone first, using your IR thermometer purchased at RatShack, the
> > one you use to find hotspots in your radiator, to check the temperature,
> > then put on polenta and the pizza.
> >
>


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