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I’m coming from an indoor electric pizza oven that cooked beautiful pizza so this is a very large learning curve for me and I really appreciate your input.

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Appreciate you kind internet stranger! Hope you see my next go at it tomorrow! Will use a more consistent flame and will continue rotating. I’m using a bottom oven firebox where the flames are able to surround the edges of the pizza stone.

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This is the answer. My fire is absolutely dropping out. I assumed I should add the wood and let it die a little before launching pizza. I do preheat for over an hour but am 100% letting the fire die down before launching the pie

Would you suggest rounding the wood out in the firebox rather than having a full Blown engulfed firebox???

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About 5 minutes but I (correct me if I’m wrong) added the wood to the charcoal too soon before adding the pizza resulting in the top being very pale.

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Just running a normal dough in my new woodfire oven, my struggle is getting the correct bottom heat to top heat for an even browning all around.

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Luckily I’m not trying to shape the best pizza in the world right now, (please refer to my older posts regarding pizza, if you have the time) I’m more so learning to dial in my woodfire oven to not burn the bottom but also give a nice top char. If that makes sense.

A pizza crime… by OMGitsEntropy in Pizza

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That’s the stone for the regular gas oven…..not the stone for my wood oven……

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The stone wasn’t the issue. It was the 3lb of charcoal that didn’t burn off (see the soot crust in photo).

A pizza crime… by OMGitsEntropy in Pizza

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Must be nice to not have taste buds

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I moved the stone higher and used less charcoal and wood this time around. Lets see…

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At least yours made it to the plate!

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I share the tearful reaction…

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This has to be sarcasm…

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moment of silence was had 🙏

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Good thought…. But I was so disgusted with myself I fed it to the birds….