Tips to cooking with Wood-Fired Pizza Ovens

Pizza has always been one of the favourite foods for many of us. A pizza made in a wood fired pizza oven has a special place in our mouths and minds. Restaurants use wood fired pizza ovens not just for cooking great tasting pizzas, but they also have been used for all types of cuisine. Wood fired pizza ovens always deliver excellent pizzas with the appropriate amount of crunch to the crust with the gooeyness of cheese, sauce, and our favoured toppings. Apart from pizzas, wood fired pizza ovens can be used to prepare various alternative types of food items, including:-

Salads

Spaghetti

Bread

Pastries

Meats

The wood fired pizza oven is also perfect to use for barbecue, baking, roasting, steaming, steaming, simmering and grilling other types of foods.Cooking in wood fired pizza ovens is somewhat different from cooking in other ovens and on the stove tops in our home. Rather than fixing a definite temperature in the oven or switching the lever to regulate the temperature of the cooktop burner, the quantity of heat in the oven is measured by how much heat energy is being delivered from the burning wood. Using a wood fired pizza oven, we can simply make great smoked meats and vegetables at home.

Information on Temperature Scales for Wood Fired Pizza Ovens

The temperature in the wood fired pizza oven will determine the taste of the food we're going to prepare. To get a perfect temperature in a wood fired pizza oven, we should know how much wood to be loaded into the oven, as well as how much time it takes for the oven to preheat.Here are some information regarding the temperature in a wood fired pizza oven.

1. Keep Warm: The use of a wood-fired pizza oven prevents foods from becoming dry by maintaining moisture. And also wood fired pizza ovens help to keep food warm. The temperature to be set on the wood fired pizza oven thermometer is between 150°F and 160°F.

2.Baking Pizzas/Calzones: To make a brick oven pizza as we get at our beloved restaurant, all we need to do is heat the wood-fired oven to 700°F or more! Because of the intense heat, we can enjoy homemade wood-fired pizzas in about three minutes.

3.Slow Cook/Slow Roast: We can use our wood-fired oven to make slow cooking meals and slow roast, from pulled pork to pot roasts, beans, and stews. The temperature benchmark on the wood-fired oven should be maintained between 200°F and 250°F.

4.Baking Desserts: Wood fired pizza ovens are also best for baking desserts like cakes, cookies, pies etc..., Using wood fired pizza oven, we can even bake the scones. The ideal temperature for baking desserts is between 300°F to 350°F.

5.Roasting/Grilling/Baking hearth bread: Roasting needs higher temperatures, between 500°F and 550°F. We should be very careful. When we are using our wood fired oven in this temperature range, food will brown faster, which is ideal for preparing toasted steaks, hamburgers, brats, and wieners.

6.Baking bread: For general baking and baking our favorite homemade bread, we want to control the temperature of our wood-fired brick pizza oven between 400°F and 450°F.

Some Recipes for Wood-Fired Pizza Ovens

We discussed how a wood fired pizza oven works and how to get the perfect temperature for each food item. Now we can check out some delicious recipes which can simply be made using a wood fired pizza oven.

1. Wood-Fired Meats: Preheat the wood fired oven and bring it up to 550°F. We should make a fire in the center of the oven. When the fire has moved out and the ashes last, put an elevated grilling rack above the coals and close the door. Authorize the rack to preheat for about 10 minutes. Add our favoured meats like hamburgers, chicken, steak, brats, or fish to the top of the grilling rack. Before flipping allows cooking for several minutes. For example, for a medium steak, cook on each side for three to four minutes. And for roasted meats, we need to preheat the wood fired pizza oven to around 400F and then maintain a temperature between 350F and 375F.

2. Wood-Fired Pizzas: Preheat the oven by introducing the fire. We need the oven to arrive at least 700°F before baking the pizza. During preheating, take out the pizza dough from the fridge. We need to let the dough set out and stay for an hour as it comes up to room temperature. After an hour, dust the flour on a countertop and tenderly dust both sides of the dough. Progressively stretch or drape it out to the aimed form and size. Next, add some pizza sauce and spread it smoothly over the crust, moving about one quarter to a half-inch of dough around the edges. Add a delicate layer of cheese, then all of our favoured toppings. Dust the top with more cheese. Scrub the outside edge of the dough with some olive oil. Once your pizza oven has arrived at 700°F+ degrees, place the pizza carefully in the oven using a pizza Peel. We need to rotate the pizza every 20 seconds to turn the part of the pizza closest to the fire away. By doing this, our pizza will be done in about one to two minutes.

3. Wood-Fired vegetables: Preheat the wood-fired oven to 400°F — 425°F. After the fire dies down, we can place the grilling rack over the coals and grill right on the rack. We can also casually jiggle our vegetables in olive oil and dust them with grainy salt or more seasonings and roast on an oven-safe baking sheet. Twist the baking sheet after five to seven minutes.Another method takes about 10 to 15 minutes to cook vegetables. And also we can preheat the 600°F to 650°F and roast the veggies for about four to five minutes to get that wood fire taste..

4.Wood Fired bread and Desserts: Preheat the wood-fired pizza oven to at least 600°F. When the fire dies down to about 500°F, stew the bread or dessert, twisting various times for a balanced bake. Place the flatbread dough right on the baking surface.

5.Wood Fired Pasta: Wood fired ovens are best for preparing pasta dishes like lasagna. Preheat the oven to the desired temperature. Be sure that the pasta dish is a cast-iron dish. Keep it in the oven and bake for the intended amount of time. Spin the baking dish every 15 to 20 minutes for a balanced bake.

Conclusion

A wood fired pizza oven will be one of the most beneficial investments we have ever made. We could get a different variety of tastes from pizzas and other food items from a single oven.