Eggtoberfest 2022 - It is back and beautiful
We were excited to join the new and improved Big Green Egg Eggtoberfest!
This would be a new kind of event since it would be held in a stadium near Atlanta instead of the old Stone Mountain parking lot. We marked our calendar to log in as soon as cook tickets went on sale. I hear it sold out in 10 minutes.
We have done Eggtoberfest before and know that the crowd comes hungry so we would need to make a lot of pizzas. The signup was a little different this year. In the past we were able to get multiple eggs and run multiple Pizza-Porta ovens at once. At the last Eggtoberfest we ran two Eggs in one booth and two in an adjacent booth. That let us cook 150 pizzas for the event. This year we would have 2 Large BGE to use for a 4-person team. I calculated that over 4 hours in one Egg, we could do 80 pizzas. That is 240 minutes leaving 3 minutes per pie (we had a double rack so we could do 2 at a time). We were counting on reloading with charcoal one time.
I booked some time with the red monster mixer which will make about 30 dough balls in a single batch. We made two batches yielding 63. I then made 3 batches of 6. All told we had 81 dough balls for the event.
The usual excitement hit us at dark-thirty in the morning - time to make some pizzas! My all-star team was ready to roll. We got set up and waited for just the right time to light the grill. I am always a little stressed until that needle climbs past 600F. Once we are past that point it is time to close the chimney and let the Pizza-Porta do its magic. Since we had an experienced team and there would be a big crowd, we let the temp go up to over 1000F dome temp and started loading in pizza after pizza.
We were going all out and the line kept coming. We are so glad that people were patiently waiting. Turnaround time was under 3 minutes for most of the morning. I was surprised when I looked over and saw that we had gone through about eight dough boxes (49 pizzas!) when the temperature started to wane. We were right on schedule.
We pulled out the Pizza-Porta, reloaded with charcoal and cranked it up again. These guys were excited to get a 10 minute break while the oven got back up to temperature.
As the day wore on we called in the Pepperoni Pizza expert to help build more pizzas. Charlie is a rock star and got us over the hump!
Cheese pizza
At Eggtoberfest it is always a lot of fun to show what a Big Green Egg is capable of. This customer was certainly surprised to see the quality of the pizza coming out of the Egg. A special order cheese pizza for his family.
When the dust settled we cooked 81 pizzas, finished a lot of adult beverages, and ate a lot of food from the Eggers cooking around us. The Eggtoberfest is back and the new venue surely raises the game. Come on out next year - bring you own Pizza-Porta and lets do some cooking!
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