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Monday 8 October 2012

How To Light Your Wood Fired Pizza Oven

By Nora Seabolt


While any kind of microwave oven can be used to make pizza, the authentic way of making a pizza tends to bring out the quality of texture and flavor that modern techniques cannot.In the conventional sense, pizzas are supposed to be made in ovens that use wood for fuel and are made up of bricks.This is also the reason why one can see many people constructing a wood fired pizza oven in their homes.

It is worth mentioning that it can be quite difficult for an individual to not only set up such ovens but to also use and maintain them.Fortunately, the right kind of knowledge and skill set can offset these flaws.Lighting the oven is one of the most crucial aspects of making pizza the conventional way.Lighting is important because only through pre heating will the batter get the right amount of heat.The following are some tips pertaining to pre heating.

In order to use the traditional oven appropriately, you need to understand how its heating system works. There are three ways through which the batter receives the heat in a traditional oven.The first is conduction where the heat is transferred through the bricks.Radiation or reflection of heat from the dome of the traditional oven is the second.The last is convection where the heat reaches the batter through the air.

Therefore, in pre heating, the temperatures inside the brick oven are raised to their highest before being reduced and maintained at the optimum levels.You should also know that when the brick oven is at its hottest temperature, a curing of its surfaces takes place.The oven surfaces are cured from the heat that is sterilizing them.You would now just have to brush the ashes inside the oven away with the help of a metal brush.

The type of wood being used to light the oven is also very important.The wood you use should be completely natural.The wood needs to be free of artificial contaminants such as glue, paint or chemicals because when they vaporize they become dangerous.

Soft wood is the preferred wood for initiating the lighting process.The reason for this is simply that soft wood is not only easier to light but it also tends to burn with more intensity.Once the oven has reached the right temperatures, you can switch to hard wood to maintain the temperatures.The dimensions of the wood being used need to be focused upon as well.The ideal thickness of the wood being used should be no bigger than your little finger.

The lighting procedure can only work if the fire gets enough air, which means leaving the door open.You can boost your efforts to pre heat the brick oven by actually ensuring that just the right amount of air is inside it to support the fire without suppressing it.The fire can be started with the help of newspapers or similar items.You can add hard wood to the fire once it has a good blaze going.Needless to say, it is always better to use a butane torch to light the fire than to struggle with a matchstick.




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