Wood Fired Pizza Ovens

Wood Fired Pizza Ovens

Wood fired pizza ovens are an innovative way to introduce outdoor cooking to your family and friends. Most families have begun to incorporate pizza in their main courses and cooking it in wood fired pizza ovens is the perfect way to cook just like they did in Italy back in the day.

The magic of wood fired pizza ovens is that they give food a very unique aroma. If you have a wood fried oven it’s a great way to bring a little piece of Italy into your home.

This art of cooking with wood fired pizza ovens is a novel way to introduce Italian cooking in a social group and also a way to make pizza attractive to set of people who want to enjoy cooking and eating together.

One of the biggest benefits of wood fried pizza ovens is that they give grilling another level of excitement and puts a unique twist on the way you cook.

Bread and pizza cooked in wood fried pizza ovens is guaranteed to be perfect but that doesn’t mean you are limited to cooking only pizza and bread in the oven.

The benefits of these little ovens are endless yet not many people have had any sort of experience with them other than in a restaurant.

Because wood fired pizza ovens are usually made up of  a sort of ceramic such as brick or clay, it is very uncommon for any household to have them handy in their back-yard, but it is possible to build one.

Some people consider these pizza ovens to be low tech they are, however, incredibly effective. This is due to the fact that the thermal heating is advanced and because of the way these ovens are constructed, food is prepared quickly.

To cook a full pizza in a gas or electric oven can take as long as 20 minutes but in a wood pizza oven, this can be done in as little as five minutes!

How is a fire built in wood fired pizza ovens ?

Basically, you build  a fire inside the pizza oven and while the fire burns, the insulated walls as well as the oven dome starts to heat up rapidly.

The chambers then reach a ‘white hot’ temperature, the oven can either be kept at a low heat or die down at its own pace. The pizza oven itself will stay ht for a long time due to the fact that the heat is kept inside the walls of the oven and the heat that is radiated or reflected off the dome allows cooking and baking to happen at high temperatures or cook slowly as it cools down.  The choice is yours.

The fact is that these pizza ovens are designed with the purpose of distributing heat evenly. This makes cooking consistent making cooking very easy because there is no need for any rotating or turning to take place.

Something that is important to keep in mind when cooking in a wood fried oven is that the wood you use should be of the same quality. All the pieces should be of similar size and dried the same too. This will help the even heat distribution even more.