Cooking Neapolitan Pizza in a Wood Fired Pizza Oven | (Tutorial on heating your pizza oven)

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A wood fired pizza oven provides the ideal heating environment for cooking pizza. We’re going to take a look at the process of heating the oven, the types of heat transfer that take place when you’re cooking, and uses for the heat your oven retains after you’re done cooking the pizza.
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@VincenzoAppioVINCYAPPIO 2 жыл бұрын

Bellissima pizza e bellissimo pane...super like video ciao

@BitontoPizza 2 жыл бұрын

Grazie mille, Vincenzo! Gradisco i tuoi commenti e sono contento che ti è piaciuto il video!

@CiaoLucia 2 жыл бұрын

FANTASTIC!! ❤️ Awesome info about temperatures and oven 👍

@BitontoPizza 2 жыл бұрын

Grazie!!!

@Liboman 2 жыл бұрын

I learned the hard way about thermal mass, early into the ownership of my SC60+Gas. When I light her up, she'll hit 450C in 30 minutes, all over the floor. So I'd cook a pizza, but it would always be woefully undercooked. Eventually I figured out that the first pizza was pulling all of the energy out of the oven, because it hadn't become saturated. Now I always allow it to pre-heat for 60 minutes. Haven't had any issues, since.

@BitontoPizza 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment and great story. I've talked to several people who figured that one out the hard way! I'll bet your pizza is delicious.

@rbiv5 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, Paul. I agree with you 💯%. I always use the retained heat from my Ooni Karu to make bread. Its delicious. Also have made pasta al forno, roast chicken and mussels sautéed in white wine. My next project is to make a parmigiana melanzane.

@BitontoPizza 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds great!

@BeerLeagueGoalieGodfather 4 ай бұрын

I hope some day you'll do a video and discuss the temperature management using the door and the chimney damper. Also, I find the floor loses too much heat between pizzas when I cook multiple ones (3-4). Any thoughts?

@kdutt3341 2 ай бұрын

Should I have my chimney closed at all times and oven door open ? I can’t seem to get my pizza base crispy at all

@wd122 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, great info. How long did it take you to preheat your oven? Thanks

@BitontoPizza 2 жыл бұрын

I can preheat in about 2 hours if needed but I prefer to do it slower, about 3 hours. It heats the deck better. Great question, thanks for that!

@tonysorrentino4325 2 жыл бұрын

Paul, if there is no taste benefit to using wood, what are the benefits of baking pizza and bread with wood instead of with gas? Does your comment about there being no taste transfer of the wood come from the Neopolitan Pizza technical book you have referenced before, from some other reference, or from personal experience?

@BitontoPizza 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if there is a taste benefit or not but there is no transfer of flavor from the burning wood. They discuss it in the scientific book La Pizza Napoletana but I’ve also read about the research in some of the forums. Wood and gas burn differently and produce different amounts of humidity as they burn. These differences may have some effect on the taste. I feel like wood fired pizza tastes better, but I don’t have a gas oven, so, I can’t do a direct comparison. For me, building and managing the fire is part of the art - it’s a part of the process I enjoy.

@wd122 2 жыл бұрын

This is correct. The cook time is too short to impart any flavor from the wood.

@Cortisch Жыл бұрын

How did you get the middle of the oven clean from the ashes?

@bobulele Жыл бұрын

Brass brush, and maybe a slightly damp towel on a brush if you really want to clean the ash off.

@BitontoPizza 11 ай бұрын

If you’re familiar with Vito Iacopelli, his very first video showed exactly how to clean the oven!

@dbentzien 11 ай бұрын

What is the ideal oven floor temp for pizza

@BitontoPizza 11 ай бұрын

Between 800 and 900 F (~450 C). The deck temperature will vary as you cook because the dough pulls heat out of it.

@eddiejamison Ай бұрын

Was that a big ass snake early in the video?😮

@gmsteeves 3 ай бұрын

How do you clean a wood pizza oven

@DD-qc4ij Ай бұрын

Just sweep the ashes out with an oven brush. The high temperature cooks off anything that hits the floor. After the oven is heated up and you are ready to bake wrap an old towel around your turning peel, dampen it a little with water and wipe down the deck where you will be launching your pizzas. This is just to get any soot off that the brush left so you don't get it into you dough. Not good for you.