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FAQ - Wood burning Pizza ovens

Garden Gift Shop | Outdoor Cooking | Outdoor Wood Burning Ovens |  FAQ - Wood burning Pizza ovens

Wood Burning Pizza Ovens - Frequently Asked Questions What are our wood burning ovens made from ? Each of our wood burning ovens are individually hand made on a wire mesh frame from expanded clay and refractory cements. How many parts are there to one of our outdoor pizza ovens? The wood fired pizza Oven comprises of:   The oven Dome The oven Floor 4 Terracotta floor tiles Oven Door Chimney Lid What other items do we need for our refractory clay pizza oven ? You will need a pizza Peel, a flat shovel for getting Food into and out of the pizza oven, a wood burning Oven thermometer so you know how hot the pizza oven is, A coal hook , so that you can move burning logs around inside the wood burning oven and a stand to put the oven on – this can be either made in brick/blocks or wooden. How heavy is our wood fired pizza oven ? The dome of the oven weighs about 130 kg and can easily be moved by 2 people the base of the wood burning oven weighs about 100 kg and can easily be moved by 2 people . What does the pizza oven need to stand on ? You can build your garden oven into or onto anything that can not burn, We would recommend that you use four 2 inch x 2 ft paving slabs as the base for the pizza oven to stand on you can build below the slabs using any method of construction you wish from wood to rock . How high should the pizza oven be off the ground ? The floor of the wood fired pizza oven should be at elbow height this will mean that you do not have to stoop too low to see into the wood oven and you will be able to have a good peel action. How long does it take to get the pizza oven hot ?  If the oven is dry when you start then you can start cooking pizza's in about 20 minutes. If the oven is wet when you start it may take up to 2 hrs to get hot . Your pizza oven looks quite basic compared to others we have looked at Why ?  Many imported ovens are made of terracotta and need a lot of insulating to protect them from the U.K Weather, and yet the functionality of the oven is exactly the same, other than a coat of cupernol each winter you will not need to do any other maintenance to one of our Pizza Ovens . Some Pizza ovens we have seen are covered with vermiculite and other insulators will they work better than your oven ? The most important thing about any wood burning Pizza oven is the shape. and the type of cooking you want to do, Some of the more elaborate ovens take a lot longer to heat up than our oven. and then they also retain the heat for longer, when we designed our oven we took into consideration that most people who use a wood burning oven in England recreationally decide at about 11 or 12 o'clock that the weather is good enough to cook lunch outside , they then do not want to wait 3 of 4 hrs for the oven to heat up before they start cooking. by the same token when they have finished cooking there is no need for the oven to stay hot for 8hrs or more , with this in mind we have made our oven to heat very fast and still maintain a good heat for up to 3 hrs . Can I cover or and build over my Pizza oven ?  Of course many people have purchased one of our ovens and then gone on to build an Italian style with full insulation and a little roof. this would give you all the benefits of a very expensive Pizza Oven. How fast can you cook a pizza ?  If you have he oven up to temperature you can pull a fresh thin crust pizza out of the oven every three minutes easily. I tend not to cook thick pie pizza as it is so much slower. Where should the fire be in the oven? This is a mater of your own preference, I always have my wood fire fire on the right of the oven just in from the door, this way I can add logs very easily ,the oven is then very hot at the back and cooler on the side opposite the fire. Some people like to have the fire right at the back, more difficult to maintain the fire but more effective for cooking 2/3 pizza at a time. How Hot can the Pizza Oven get? The best temperature for cooking pizza is about 450 deg the clay that we use is rated to 1300 deg so it is almost impossible to over fire the oven, I have had a customer phone me saying that the thermometer did not work he said that he had a huge fire going for about an hour and the needle had not moved , it was found that when the oven cooled a bit the needle came down from 750 deg . I have seen ovens buried in the ground can i do this with one of your Garden Pizza ovens ? Yes you can , although we would recommend that you first cover it with some insulation and a waterproofing layer of plastic otherwise it really will take a long time to get hot . Can I use the wood burning Pizza oven as a smoker ? The Pizza oven makes a fantastic hot smoker. Simply heat the oven to your desired temperature, put the food that you want to hot smoke in the oven , put wet smoking chips onto the fire and seal the door and chimney , hey presto fantastic smoked food.

Garden Gift Shop | Outdoor Cooking | Outdoor Wood Burning Ovens |  FAQ - Wood burning Pizza ovens