Solar Cooking: Pizza

We were making some pizza dough this morning for dinner tonight and I thought, why not try a small pizza in the solar oven after the tomatoes are dehydrated!

Brilliant!  Don't know how it's going to go, but I've made bread before so I guess we'll find out together.

Recipe:

The pizza dough recipe is just a basic recipe you can find anywhere, or buy it in the store.

Choose your toppings, this will be a straight up pepperoni.  I dredged the sides with a little olive oil to add some fat to the exposed dough.

The oven is at 225 degrees.  With the sun today, expect it to get to 350 degrees.  No cover on this one, just like bread.

Here we go.

I let it cook for xx minutes.

Results:

So I could actually see the oil bubbling on the crust on the outside!  Looks like even with SHTF, we can still have pizza!

The crust was soft, but had good structure and a little crisp.  With trapping moisture like this I don't think you'll ever get a "crispy crust," but this is better than nothing.

Lessons Learned:

1. Next time I would wait for a pre-heat to 350 degrees but not necessary.
2. Alternatively, you could pre-bake just the dough, then later (20-30 minutes) put the toppings on and cook again.  It would probably crisp up better.