Saturday 26 May 2012

Wood-fired Pizza Cooker - a General Review

By Xander Davenport


A wood-fired pizza cooker is regarded to be a low tech, yet particularly effective piece of equipment. Due to the advanced materials and thermal engineering used in the design and creation of this kind of oven, you can prepare foods extremely quickly. For instance, it'll take as much as 20 minutes to cook a raw, utterly topped pizza in an electrical or regular gas oven, even though it will only take 2 to 3 minutes for it to be cooked in a wood-fired pizza stove. What a clever kind of catering equipment!

How does a wood-fired pizza work? A fire is created in the oven, and while it burns, the oven's large insulated dome and walls heat up. Once the domed compartment is white hot, the fire is kept extremely low or is just tends to die down completely. The cooker itself stays hot for hours, since the domed ceiling and stove walls are emitting out the stored heat. The equipment enables you to bake or cook in really high temperatures instantly or at a lower temperature when it starts to cool down with passing time.

Since the construction of a wood-fired pizza range has an equal and balanced distribution of heat sources, cooking is reasonably consistent all throughout the cookery compartment, meaning foods that are placed within it are cooked in an even manner; there's no need to turn or revolve the food. From another viewpoint, you're going to have to ensure that the firewood you utilize has equal sizes and is dry. Using different wood sizes ends in the fire burning erratically, and thus makes the cooker to take longer to heat. Furthermore, be cautious about treated woods (stained or painted), since they can release pollutants when burning.

The most excellent option for firewood is to buy split, seasoned, and ready-to-burn regular wood cords. If at all possible, search for woods with high British Thermal Unit (BTU), because they possess a higher power generation when burned. Almond and oak are good examples of clean and sturdy/durable burning woods.

If constructing a wood-fired pizza oven is something that you are interested in, there are countless specialist websites that provide details and directions on the way to carry out this project, but naturally, it would be best to leave this one out to a professional.




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