Big Green Egg Pizza Legs Up Or Down

You dont need a pizzabaking stone but it is recommended for the best results.

Big green egg pizza legs up or down. This lets you get the temperature up to where you need it. In fact the Big Green Egg bakes and roasts better and quicker than these wood. The fire bricks are placed on top of the grid vertically.

In this position you place a baking stone on top of the Plate Setter and in effect turn the Big Green Egg into a brick oven. Always fire up the BGE prior to making your pizza. Build your fire and light the lump in 3 or 4 places and let it get going.

To use the big green egg as a wood oven you need the legs down. Pizza On the Big Green Egg. Once youve lit the charcoal place your platesetter legs-up on the fire ring and the grid on top of that.

Setting up your Egg for baking requires a platesetter. Now you want to create an air gap between the plate setter and the roasting pan. I called big green egg and they explained that if you cook with legs down all the heat is near the gasketbands therefore expect your metal parts to bend and shift.

Higher heat applied to stone and gasket can get crispier crust could be good for thin crust more gasket damage. I usually keep the cap on but mostly open and get the temp around 600-650. Get the Big Green Egg up to 600 and let your pizza stone get preheated first.

On top of the grate place three fire bricks in a. With the legs facing down the legs rest directly on the Fire Ring and the Plate Setter provides a cooking surface at the lip level of the bottom half of the Big Green Egg. This should take about 30 minutes from start up.