Benefits of a Wood Fired Pizza Oven

Wood fired pizza ovens are a common attraction in authentic pizza restaurants because they are entertaining to watch and produce pizza with savoury, smoky flavour. Not only does food baked in a wood fired pizza oven taste better than that of a gas fired pizza oven, it costs less to run and it does not expel any gases. A wood fired pizza oven will stay heated for an hours and hours on end using only a small amount of wood; this makes it the more economical choice compared to gas fired pizza ovens which are very expensive to run for the same period of time.

The length of time a wood fired pizza oven will stay heated depends on the thickness of the insulated wall. Pizza ovens built with refractory concrete last longer than their brick counterparts. A pizza will only take a few minutes to bake when heated to the proper temperature of 300-350 degrees celsius. Pizzas will have a crispier crust and will require less time to bake if baked at a very high temperature. Temperatures below 200 degrees celsius are perfect for other foods such as roasts, meat, bread, casseroles, cookies and cakes. Any kind of food you can cook in a normal kitchen oven can be cooked in a woodfired pizza oven. The temperature of the oven and the amount of time needed to cook any certain food depends on what type of food it is. It’ll be a bit of trial and error for the first couple of cooks, but once you’ve exhperimented and figured out what works well, everyone will think you’re the world’s best wood fired oven chef!