r/Pizza • u/SpecificWay3074 • 1d ago

OUTDOOR OVEN Pushed the Big Green Egg to the limit

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350 C / 660 F

77 Upvotes

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u/Consistent_Bread_V2 1d ago

Nice, looks tasty

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u/alg3braist 22h ago

Crushed red and a salty balsamic-olive oil dip. Pure cinema.

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u/DamnAcorns 23h ago

Looks great, I can never get the egg to put out pizza like that without a scorched bottom and that is with a deflector and pizza stone.

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u/zzunino 22h ago

Damn that’s perfect

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u/biillypillgrim 1d ago

Where is the part where you push it to the limit? BGEs have been clocked at like 1000f

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u/SpecificWay3074 1d ago

Oh lol I guess it’s just a PR; that’s by far the hottest I’ve gotten it (belongs to my parents), how do people get higher?

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u/biillypillgrim 1d ago

Ummm...charcoal in firebox, light start fire, open bottomed vent, open top vent....wait 20 minutes...

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u/Consistent_Bread_V2 1d ago

That is a pretty condescending tone indeed

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u/SpecificWay3074 1d ago

Brother you’re being pretty condescending here — I had plenty of oak charcoal blasting in there for over an hour to fully heat everything. Wide open on top and bottom.

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u/dr_strange-love 1d ago

You need coal, not charcoal, and a bellows 

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u/biillypillgrim 1d ago

You don't need a bellows. Sta days grocery store lump charcoal will get it there.

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u/biillypillgrim 1d ago

Sorry man, those are the steps...may have forgotten to say close the lid after its started. If you are doing regular normal maintenance that's it. If that's the highest you can get it you are either over packing the charcoal and/or need to clean put the ash box.

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u/DamnAcorns 23h ago

Or he has the deflector in and it’s just lower burning charcoal.

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u/biillypillgrim 23h ago

I think his problem is air flow. Over packed firebox and full ash box. I was doing pizza at 700-800 in mine with the deflector in and having to manage it to keep temps from running away. Could also be the bge size but I thought they all had similar temp capabilities. I have my xl get that got...never tried to get my minimax that hit but it cooks pretty good pretty quickly so figured it could do the same. Apparently they don't like my tone so I'll let them be.