Wood-fired pizza has a very characteristic flavor. Using a wood-burning pizza oven tends to achieve a complete bake, often faster than a traditional oven. Typically, the ideal temperature for your pizza oven to cook evenly is 450 degrees Celsius. This temperature can be reached quite quickly depending on the type of oven and the amount of firewood you are using. A stainless steel pizza oven will take about 45 minutes to reach 450 degrees. A clay or brick oven will take about 3 hours. Either way, the flavor that wood cooking adds to your food will be worth it.
Whether you’re making homemade dough or buying store-bought dough, the decision is solely up to you depending on how old you have. If you choose to make a more traditional Italian pizza, fewer toppings tend to be used as the distinctive flavor comes mostly from the homemade dough and farm-fresh ingredients. If time is not a luxury, there are plenty of quick dough recipes you can make, rather than a sour dough that takes a couple of hours over several days. You may also consider making more of the dough and freezing some for the next time you cook on the pizza stove.
For those who enjoy stacking a lot of different toppings on their pizzas, the main rule of thumb is that the fewer toppings a pizza has, the shorter the duration it takes to bake. The last thing you want is for the base to be cooked and the toppings cold, so keep this in mind. Remember that cooking pizza in a stainless steel pizza oven only takes a few minutes to cook, so make sure you are nearby, have a large pizza shovel handy, and monitor the cooking progress.
Some of you may not be that familiar with cooking other items in your wood-burning pizza oven, but you’re really only limited by your imagination. Because all food cooks so quickly in its wood-burning pizza oven, it is ideal for cooking for large gatherings or gatherings. Wood-fired pizza ovens are usually large and have a spacious interior. You can expand your food offering by making homemade bread, casserole pasta dishes, desserts, the options are endless. Homemade bread acquires a subtle crunch and texture produced by cooking in the wood-fired oven.