Pizza Ovens
With many homeowners looking for a more natural way to cook, the pizza oven continues to rise in popularity and Pizza ovens are one of the hottest items for outdoor kitchens. People want to duplicate restaurant tastes at home.
Gas-fired ovens can cook pizzas in about 20 minutes. Wood pizza ovens are popular but getting the oven to a correct and consistent temperature results in much longer overall cook times. If time is a concern consider a more modern, user-friendly pizza oven instead of waiting a few hours like some outdoor ovens.
Outdoor Pizza Ovens give people more things they can do at home, and it takes the drudgery out of week-night meals. What makes it so special is being able to sit around the oven, make our own food and enjoy it directly out of the oven outdoors with friends and family. An outdoor pizza oven can even influence what you grow in the garden — tomatoes, squash, tomatillos, herbs and other pizza ingredients.
Wood Pizza Ovens vs. Natural Gas Pizza Ovens… only time is the real difference.
Stone hearth ovens have been around for thousands of years and taken many forms. They have been made with any materials that were readily available and have gone by many different names. Wood fired Brick Oven Pizza is well known. There are a series of easily recognizable features common to most stone hearth ovens, including shape, heat retention and open cooking flame.
The open flame and stored heat in the floor and dome create an intense cooking chamber which caramelizes natural sugars in the food. This unlocks natural flavours unlike conventional indoor ovens. The colour evidenced by caramelized sugars is just as easily achieved in the Outdoor Pizza gas oven as the Wood Pizza Oven. When cooking dough products directly on the hearth the direct contact generates a different rising to the dough making it better than any panned pizza.
The characteristics of wood fired pizza remain in natural gas pizza ovens because they are actually the characteristics of stone hearth and open flame, not the result of the wood as a fuel source. It is almost impossible to tell if the pizza was cooked in a gas pizza oven or wood pizza oven. Pizza cooked in a gas pizza oven is the equal of pizza from a wood oven, just in a lot less time.
Wood Fired Pizza Ovens can be a very attractive focal feature of an outdoor living space but just remember that you will need a quality hardwood supplier and wood within a certain range of moisture content. Also have an idea of how much ash you will need to dispose of, other than that cleaning and maintenance of both types of oven are similar.
