Cooking With A Wood Fire Pizza Oven

Pizza has taken the 21st century by storm. This wonder food integrates quality ingredients with perfect taste. Moreover, it can be produced quite easily and quite fast, which is how the contemporary generation wants it. You can make those mouthwatering pizzas right in your home.

All that you need is a pizza stone, and a home oven. An oven fired with wood would give your pizza the exact taste as the creator of this fast food desired it to be. Wood fired ovens are preferable over ovens fired by gas or electricity. This is because wood fired ovens generate very high temperature required to cook pizza. The heat also spreads uniformly in these ovens.

Pizza can be cooked within 90 seconds in such ovens, which is quite fast. Pizza cooking should be fast for dough to get cooked and yet have enough moisture so that the base remains tender enough for chewing. If cooking time is prolonged, the dough tends to become hard. Hearth in these ovens is made from hot brick. This ensures that any moisture that remains on the lower surface of pizza is also absorbed.

Effectively, this feature ensures that the base of pizza does not become soggy. If you are using wood fired oven for preparing a pizza, then you do need to ensure that the oven is fired correctly. The oven has a dome. You have to start a fire in this dome. Smaller wood pieces that are less than the circumference of your wrist would give the perfect results.

This dome does need to be heated very fast. So the fire that that needs to be built inside the dome has to be a big one. Different ovens take different time for getting heated to the required levels. One way to confirm whether your oven has reached that temperature is to check the inner side of the dome. When the oven is not ready, you would find it to be black in color, covered with a lot of soot.

Thereafter, this surface would start becoming gray and then white before the soot is completely burnt. This is when the oven is ready for cooking pizza. Do keep the fire running as this ensures that the temperature remains almost constant in the oven. You need to try making pizza a few times to identify exactly how much wood needs to be burnt in your oven, and how long it takes for the oven to get hot.

If oven is hot enough, you might want to remove some of those coals from it. Choose smaller ones, and collect these hot coals in a metal container or bin. Since the bin is made from metal, and coals are hot, the bin would become hot as well. So do be careful while handling the bin.

After having pulled away reasonable quantity of coal, start pushing it in the oven so that the flame remains active. This ensures that the heat in dome is retained for longer, and your pizzas are cooked exactly as they should be. Having done all that you need to do with the oven, prepare your pizza base, and add all that cheese and other healthy ingredients.

Removing the ash that may have fallen on floor is also easy. You could wipe the ash away with a stick or damp cloth. Many implements are available for making this process simpler. You could find them in some store, or even make them.

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