Using Your Wood-fired Pizza Oven

There’s nothing quite like the taste of a wood-fired pizza. But there’s no need to limit yourself to the occasional visit to the local pizzeria to get your crispy crust fix. You can buy your own pizza oven and cook pizza at home any time you like!

Pizza ovens work by absorbing the heat from a fire and reflecting it back into the center of the oven. The temperature inside a pizza oven is incredibly hot — a pizza inside a properly-built oven will be fully cooked within two minutes or less! And because the oven will hold onto heat for a long time, you can cook pizzas all day long with just a few coals burning in the oven.

Baking Pizza

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Whilst firing up the outdoor pizza oven, the door and the chimney are left open. When the oven is fully heated, the fire has died down and the embers are swept to the side of the oven, the door may be closed. The wood-fired oven is then let to rest for a few minutes to allow the heat in the dome to even out, and for the temperature from the fire to ease. Initially, the outdoor oven will be approx 425°C. That’s perfect for making those 90-second, thin and crispy pizzas, however very nice pizzas are being done down to 300°C tempeatures, but that is still too hot for bread.

When the temperature has dropped to approx 230°C, its then time to place those big roasts and other large meals into the oven. Bread can be baked last and at more medium temperatures, so that it does not bake too quickly on the outside, leaving the centre soft and doughy.