How pipeliners cook pizza

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Had a pizza and no stove. So we grilled this pizza while it rained ...... May or may not have been beer involved in this idea. Actually came out decent . Just took a long time.
Reply:Nice. Years ago when I was helping out with the scouts after I moved back to the DC area and rejoined my old troop, I got asked to heard a bunch of new scouts out at the Jamboree for the troop. I decided we'd do a cooking demo and knew the troop had a bunch of cast iron dutch ovens, so I figured we'd do that for our demo.We did the traditional things, coblers, baked apples, biscuits and cake etc, showing people how it's done and handing out samples. For lunch for the kids, I figured what the heck, we'd do something different do pizza. So each kid made his own personal pizza with whatever toppings he wanted and we cooked them up in the ovens. Kids thought this was the greatest thing they'd ever done. In the end with 12 new scouts, none with more than 6 months in the troop, none of which had ever used a dutch oven before in his life, we ended up taking 1st prize for cooking overall!.No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan
Reply:Dsw. That's a great story. I love Dutch oven cooking. My dads an outfitter and that's how we cook everything out in camp. Cooked a lot of stuff in one but never a pizza. Might have to put my number 12 in the rig from now on. ..... It will have to wait till I am  home from Alabama.
Reply:I thought this was going to be like how I used to warm up soup at one of my old welding jobs... was tigging aluminum, so instead of waiting for one of the 3 microwaves that 40 guys had to use every day, I opened the can, sat it on a piece of flat scrap, clamped to the edge of the table, and heated up the bottom for about a minute.  Instant stove!Millermatic 211 Miller Blue Fire 140@swiftwelding on Instagram
Reply:This is what I used to do the small pizzas.  I had Scouts can do these themselves. It's a pie pan dutch oven, great for backpacking. I'll copy paste the post I did here before for you. Originally Posted by DSWOk tom here's the dutch oven I said I would post. It super simple.Materials:3 steel pie pans ( you could use larger cake pans but the handles on the pie pans make good lifting points)2 1"L 5/16" stove bolts. Look like a carriage bolt but with a screw driver slot and no square part on the bolt.2 5/16" wing nuts. SS preferred.3 large 60d nails or 3 short pieces of rebar3 nickelsdisposable alum pie tin.drill a 5/16" hole thru all the handles so that they can be stacked and secured for storage.Drill 2 5/16" holes tru the bottom of 2 of the pans with them stacked back to back. This will make your lid.That is pretty much it for construction.
Reply:2nd half. Originally Posted by DSWNow how to use it, and a simple recipe for a cobbler.Drive the 3 nails in the ground in a triangle formation that the bottom pan will sit on. Place 15 burning charcoal brickettes under the bottom around the nails. The nails keep the coals from directly touching the pan. 9 burning charcoal brickettes will go in the top of the lid.Place 3 nickel in the bottom of the oven. this will keep the alum pan off the bottom and give you an air space.Take your disposable alum pan. In this I put part of a can of pie filling, your favorite flavor, in 1st. then top with a box of dry cake mix. Put a small pat of butter on top of the cake mix. Place this into the bottom pan.Use a pair of welding gloves to lift the lid with the coals. Put the lid on top and cook till the top is golden brown. gloves allow you to see how its cooking and the top pan keeps the ashes out of the oven, well most of them any ways.It has been awhile since I have done this so I may be wrong on the number of charcoal briquettes that works best for heat. You need about 2x as many on the bottom as the top. I can't remember exactly how much goes in the pan as far as ingredients. I would use this and a full size dutch oven so I cant remember how much went in each size. I think the full size dutch oven used 1 can and 1 box to make a cobbler.I have cooked Pizza it this, biscuits, baked apples (you have to slice them up), Pot pies (the frozen store bought ones), and I can't remember what else.As I said before I have seen them made with larger cake pans also. I would add side handles to those.Any questions feel free to ask away. Just some thing this eagle scout picked up in the pacific north west. I had a group of young scouts take 1st prise in cooking at the national jamboree years ago using about 8 of these to do a cooking demonstration.BTW this makes a great backpacking oven.
Reply:Done similar cooking on many a night with my dad and family with power outages as a kid. Sometimes the country is a great place to cook. Over a charcoal grill, making fajitasand other good meals on the grill.
Reply:I have not managed anything yet on my Dutch oven that didn't taste slightly (at least) burned. Tasted plenty of things others have done that was great, but nothing of my own.
Reply:Use a trivet
Reply:C rations on a tank/track engine for about 15 minutes, or jeep for about 20.Also, just a pinch of C4 set on fire cooks pretty well, but don't stomp out the fire!Burt _____________________Miller Syncrowave 250Millermatic 211Miller 375 Plasma Cutter Hobart Handler 12010FtDrillBit.com
Reply:DSW, you'll appreciate this, what with the scouts and all....We took our troop out camping one weekend.  One kid needed to fulfill his cooking badge, so he decided to make a cheese souflee (sp?).  Didn't have a cast iron Dutch oven, so the grizzly old scoutmaster loaned him his (you can see where this is going....).  Scoutmaster told him not to screw up his 20 yr. old seasoned oven, so the kid lined it with aluminum foil to protect it. The kid cooked the dish OK, but he didn't realize what he had done to the Dutch oven!!!  You guessed it...the foil MELTED into the pores of the cast iron.  I thought the old scoutmaster was going to kill him right on the spot!!  When they got home, the scoutmaster made him go in the back yard and try to clean it up.  The bottom was covered with shiny aluminun speckles.They resorted to using soap and water, wire brush, Brillo pads, steel wool, who knows what else....disaster.  The Dutch oven was pretty well screwed up.  The old scoutmaster finally resorted to light grinding to remove as much of the aluminum as possible and get back to as much clean cast iron as he could.  He then commenced to try to restore 20 years worth of seasoning.  The kid is still alive......Stepping forward some 40 years, they probably could have used some muriatic acid and dissolve out the aluminum.
Reply:Originally Posted by wb4rtC rations on a tank/track engine for about 15 minutes, or jeep for about 20.Also, just a pinch of C4 set on fire cooks pretty well, but don't stomp out the fire!
Reply:I have cooked plenty of meals on hot engines and exhaust manifolds. Use the intake manifolds for reheating and the exhaust for baking/frying. No access to turbines anymore though, might be too hot for gourmet!
Reply:I cook pizzas on the bbq grill all the time, i find if you use a big cookie sheet turned upside down place the pizza on top of the upside down cookie sheet shut the lid, about 2 beers or so later check on it.....i turn it up all the way, takes about 20 to 30 minutes......enjoy.....If you see me running for no apparent reason, try to keep up:"Reality" What a concept!Miller Big 40 {1972} vintage, with 150 ft. of 000 leads, old Alaskan pipline welder.
Reply:Originally Posted by blumoon..., about 2 beers or so later check on it.....i turn it up all the way, takes about 20 to 30 minutes......enjoy.....
Reply:Lets see, is that a four beer pizza?  No, not done yet, needs another two.  Ah just right.  Perfect.    Bob
Reply:Originally Posted by blumoonI cook pizzas on the bbq grill all the time, i find if you use a big cookie sheet turned upside down place the pizza on top of the upside down cookie sheet shut the lid, about 2 beers or so later check on it.....i turn it up all the way, takes about 20 to 30 minutes......enjoy.....
Reply:Cool! I did that once with the pizza then put it on a styrofoam paper plate. Guess what happened next.   I went to bed hungry that night I hate being bi-polar it's awsomeMy Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Reply:Mike that sounds like something I would do after a fu shots.
Reply:Also you can use a piece of marble or granite under the pizza and cook right on it just preheat the rock
Reply:Grilling pizza is awesome.  I get the pre-made dough at the store.  Roll it thin, coat it in olive oil.  Cook one side till it bubbles up, flip it, add toppings and cook through.  The trick is to keep the toppings minimal, because the pizza cooks fast on the grill and you don't have time to melt a lot of sauce and cheese.