Wood fired oven - calzones, 2 out of 4 ain't bad

I'm really out of practice with calzones. I fired the oven with white cedar kindling and loaded small maple splits. The wind was out of the Northwest, great. I started cooking sausage and portabella mushrooms for one. I made a pulled barbecue chicken for another.



It fired for and hour, I raked the coals out for a bit and then I put the angle iron in. The winds shifted from the East and was blowing into the oven door. Ah, not the best direction now. The oven was very hot and ready to go.

Now I usually as a rule make the plain cheese first to gauge the oven temp. I put in the portabello and sausage and brushed olive oil on top. I went inside for a minute to prep the next one. I get back outside and the calzones is on fire. Great, put it out, finish cooking and onto the next.

Plain sauce and cheese was next. I used eggwash on top, no more oil. Simple, no crust on fire.



The third one. Pulled barbecue chicken and onion. It cooked perfect, but I forgot the cheese.



The last one was sausage and mozz cheese. It was fine.

 

Cheese or no cheese It doesn't matter to me they look great

 

Rats, I forgot to not look before going to bed. I will be dreaming of calzones all night. Looking awesome as usual. I am sure the "burnt" one got eaten as well.

 

fishingpol,
They look great to me. Too bad we are so far away. You could come to my house and practice anytime you want. I like the oven.

 

Woodwidow, the burn was cut off and we ate it.

 

Dang, I looked at this while fasting and starving . I could eat the burned stuff right now.

 

Double-dang, I tortured myself by going and re-reading and looking at the pics again

 

Mozzarella, ricotta, couple of provolone slices and Italian ham.

 

That sounds good. I need a little variety. I tend to stick with the basics.

 

Gonna' need to powerwash meself now........all this drool.

 

Nice!

 

Be right ovah!

 

Shame, you know better than to walk away from the oven........

 

nice group of hounds, do they hunt? or just eat

 

what is your dough recipe, mine has not worked well the last couple tries.

 

They do, I don't, hunt that is.

The deer head sticker in the window of the truck is from a previous owner. I left it there cuz it makes muh no-frills light weight truck look more bad azz

 

From my mother who gleaned them from different recipes over the years. Still working on a thin crust recipe.

1 cup of water 110 degrees
1 teaspoon of yeast
3 cups of bread flour
1/2 tsp of salt.

 

Great pics as always.