On 5-Oct-2004, "Louis Cohen" > wrote:

> I make great artisan breads and pizza in my Kamado ceramic; it works just
> like a wood-fired brick bread oven. Or a tandoor.
>
> First, you need to be able to get your pit up to the appropriate temp for
> your baking. For artisan breads and thin crust pizza, this is 500-600°;
> conventional breads are often baked around 375°, I think.
>
> Many breads and pizza benefit from cooking on a pizza/baking stone. Get
> good thick ones, at least 1" - look on-line or at restaurant supply stores.
> Many kitchen stores (and web sites) sell really thin ones which are better
> than nothing but not great. Many people use unglazed quarry tiles from Home
> Depot or a tile store. Depending on the type of pit you have, you might
> want to use more than 1 - one for a heat diffuser so that you get nice even
> heat around the bread and one to put the bread on for a nice crust.
>
> www.theartisan.net is a great website for artisan bread baking; if that's
> the kind of bread you like. Try to adapt their suggestions for oven baking
> to your pit.
>
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> Louis Cohen
> Living la vida loca at N37° 43' 7.9" W122° 8' 42.8"
>
>
> "Gus" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Howdy Folks..
> >
> > Got a simple question here that may have a simple or a complicated
> answer...
> >
> > Had me an uncle back a while ago who was an super bakery guy... none of
> his
> > genes are in my bod. I would like to use the smoker (with or without a
> lot
> > of smoke) to "bake" some things like biscuits, etc.
> >
> > Anyone here have a good handle on how to proceed on that?
> >
> > (I make some dealies called "sleeping dogs" in the oven and they have
> > biscuits as a part, but I would really like to do them in the smoker if
> > possible)
> >
> > Best to all,
> > Gus Kilthau
> > Houston, Texas
> >
> >

<didn;t know how to snip this one, so the hell with it.>

I have an 18" X 12" X 1/2" marble slab that was originally
sold as a cutting board. I don't use it in either of my pits,
but it works nicely for cooking pizza in the kitchen oven.
I'm still wishing I could make bread.
--
Brick(DL5BF, WA7ERO, HS4ADI)


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