Say you built a pizza oven. It’s sitting in your backyard. Perfect snow white stucco dome. And you start thinking to yourself it is only a matter of time before a bird …
Category Archives: Pizza
Brand New Favorite
Dear lord this was good. Sweet Mission Figs and Pancetta from Salt and Time. Slap you mom good. The pork fries up in the oven, smoky and crunchy. Then, BAM!, gooey sweet figs…
Building a Pizza Oven: There is No On Button
Cooking with a wood burning oven is harder than it looks. The practice involves all three heating methods. Conductive from the contact the dough makes with the hearth floor …
The Difference Between Three and Eight Minutes
It took eight minutes to cook a pie in my oven. It takes three minutes to cook a pie in the wood burning oven. What a difference five minutes makes. Watching the crust rise in those first few seconds is like watching a miracle. Thin dough, inflating itself. I love it. The higher heat has […]
Building a Pizza Oven: Curing the Beast
Moisture hides everywhere. Even in fire bricks and concrete. After letting the mortar dry for a week, I started small fires to remove moisture from the rest of the hard surfaces …
Building a Pizza Oven: Covered in Mud
The front of my oven just got dolled up with a big piece of plate steel. I figured anything that had already been involved in that much fire and heat …