(quick notes, mostly jotted down to remember what worked well)
My third try in three years, and the most successful (I got the grill up to 700 degrees, which I’m sure helped):

Grill setup: plenty of charcoal below, all air passages cleared of ash, and a pizza stone (porous side up for my glazed/porous stone) raised on two bricks to bring the pizza close to the hot lid of the ceramic grill. I let the charcoal burn for 90 minutes with the lid closed to get the entire grill up to 650-700 degrees (when I tried making a pizza earlier, it burned on the bottom before it fully cooked on the top– I think because the ceramic grill lid wasn’t hot enough– I could also try further raising the stone next time).

The dough recipe is down at the bottom. After letting it rise overnight in the fridge, I pulled it out about an hour before the grill was ready and rolled out each crust on a floured board before transferring it to the peel (on a layer of coarse cornmeal), rubbing olive oil into it, sprinkling a little salt onto it, and then topping it.

Each pizza only had to bake for 3 or maybe 4 minutes when the grill was at peak temperature (later in the evening the charcoal burned down and the grill dropped to 500-550 degrees– the pizzas still came out pretty well).




We made 6 different pizzas in one evening for a small cocktail party with a group of friends– success!
Dough recipe (6 small pizzas, enough for 6-9 people):
- 690g white* flour
- 255g whole wheat flour
- 21g sugar
- 15g salt
- 15g yeast
- 690g lukewarm water
- 48g olive oil
(*usually King Arthur bread flour, but this time I used a 50/50 mix of bread and all-purpose because I ran out of bread flour)
Mix all the dry ingredients except the yeast.
Make a small depression in the middle of the dry ingredients and add the yeast there.
Gradually pour the water/oil mixture into this depression, stirring in a small circle to dissolve the yeast and to gradually incorporate the flour into this.
Turn the (quite wet and sticky) dough out onto a floured countertop and knead a dozen times.
Place in an oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap, let rise overnight in the fridge (take it out at least 15 minutes before making pizzas and divide it into 6 balls).
Tags: bbq pizza, Pizza