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570XT-UM1 Ver3
Quick start Guide Big Joe
Don’t mess up your first pizzas – Read this first!
1) Forget the hacks that you have used to cook pizza. The Pizza-Porta™ cooks differently.
2) A pizza peel is necessary to cook pizza in the Pizza-Porta™. A long-handle 12” or 14”
wide peel fits. A wooden peel for placing and metal for retrieving is best.
3) Assembly (More details in later pages)
a)
Assemble 4 sides of the XL Pizza-Porta by inserting tabs and putting screws through the
holes with nuts on the inside. Note there is a top screw hole toward the front.
b)
Put long screws through the handle, spacers, heat shield, spacers, door and then put
nuts on the back – tighten
c)
Lift the lid of your grill and set the Pizza-Porta on the base, aligning the edges equally
from side to side, with the front latch inserted in the bottom.
d)
Lower the dome lid and compress the hinge enough to put the “D ring” over the grill’s
top latch pin.
4) All grill hinges are adjusted a little differently. Test the fit before you start a fire. Your
Pizza-Porta is designed to shift around a bit to fit. A little air leak is ok.
5) Good Pizza starts with good dough – Google Peter Reinhart, or Tony Gemignani for
recipes. NOTE: It is much easier to make 2-3 12” pizzas than it is to make 1–16” pizza.
Dough handling, stretching, transferring are all easier with an 8 oz. dough ball. The Pizza-
Porta allows you to cook fast so 2 pizzas take only 8-10 minutes to cook.
6) 550°F to 650°F is a great for most raw dough – start there and experiment. Create an air
gap between the pizza stone and the heat deflector stone using aluminum foil balls, or
other spacers on top of the cooking grate.
7) Raw pizza dough should be floured so it is not sticky. Make sure the dough is floured well,
and then sprinkle a pinch of cornmeal on the wooden peel to make it slide easily. Make
sure it will slide before you put it in the Pizza-Porta. Never put cornmeal on the stone.
8) Rotate your pizza after 2 minutes and check the bottom – the fire will sometimes be hotter
on one side. Pizza needs to be watched, this is not a Boston Butt.
9) Make sure to lock the door closed when shutting down.
10) Practice makes perfect - and your friends won’t mind testing!
