Big Green Egg Plate Setter Legs Up Or Down

In this recipe we ll cover the optimal big green egg set up for pizza using the plate setter legs up and a pizza stone.

Big green egg plate setter legs up or down. For indirect grilling and smoking install a conveggtor a k a. The plate setter can be used several different ways with the legs facing up or down. Recently my egg developed a huge underbite. You ll think your big green egg is a very expensive italian wood fired pizza oven.

Plate setter a heavy three legged ceramic plate that fits in the top of the bottom section of the egg s firebox. I called big green egg and they explained that if you cook with legs down all the heat is near the gasket bands therefore expect your metal parts to bend and shift. With the legs facing down the legs rest directly on the fire ring and the plate setter provides a cooking surface at the lip level of the bottom half of the big green egg. I have done both legs up and legs down and the pizza stone.

The big green egg is designed to work as a complete outdoor cooking system producing unrivaled results whether grilling roasting smoking or baking and nothing contributes more to the versatility of your egg than adding a conveggtor to your eggcessories collection. Having said that i tend to let it get 600f when making pizza so perhaps that is my issue. Going forward i am only cooking with legs up. You ll also learn the techniques for cooking pizza on your big green egg.

For slow smoking add the normal measure of charcoal. In this position you place a baking stone on top of the plate setter and in effect. First we need to make the pizza dough. Insert it upside down that is with the legs up and the flat section down.