The Pizza Oven Handbook

Download or read book The Pizza Oven Handbook written by Andrew Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pizza ovens or wood fired ovens have grown in popularity in recent years and they continue to do so. Why? Because they are simply amazing things to own and be able to cook all manner of dishes with. Get them screaming hot and watch homemade pizza literally cook before your eyes, enticing you with the smell of an Italian restaurant in your own home or back garden. Let the flames die down and the oven cool a little and you are ready for roasting and grilling an array of meat, fish and vegetables. As the oven temperature drops further, slide in some breads or even a desert. Overnight roasting large joints of meat, simply with the heat retained in the bricks after the fire has gone out. The possibilities are literally endless. However, the difference in using an open fire to cook with as opposed to gas or electric is truly an amazing experience. A few years ago, I became obsessed with the idea of having one of these ovens in my own garden but I knew I didn't just want to buy an oven, I wanted to build one myself. Having no previous experience of building anything made from bricks and having never even mixed concrete before it was a steep learning curve though. It also required lots of research to understand how to build such an oven in a way that it would actually work as well as not fall down! In 2017 all of the hard work and determination paid off when I finally cooked my first food in the oven. Let me share with you the step by step process to building your very own wood-fired pizza oven, with tips and tricks along the way.