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Safety Advice for Cooking with Wood-Fired Pizza Ovens
Cooking with a pizza oven isn’t like cooking with a regular oven: you’re cooking with actual fire, so of course, it’s going to be slightly more dangerous. However, if you follow these essential safety tips when using your wood-fired oven, everything will be just fine
How to Lay Refractory Fire Bricks
Before you’re enjoying a wood-fired pizza or a juicy cooked chicken in your pizza oven, you must lay down the refractory fire bricks. How do we do this?
Fitting & Installing Your Pizza Oven
There’s nothing better than spending an evening outside, preparing delicious pizzas and then cooking them to perfection in your very own wood-fired pizza oven. Read more about the installation process.
Design Ideas For Your Pizza Shop
You’ve got to ask yourself a few questions before you decide on the design of your pizza shop. Let’s take a look at some considerations when thinking about design ideas for your pizza shop.
Creative Ways to Set Your Restaurant Apart
Let’s take a look and go through some genius methods of making your restaurant really stand out from the crowd.
What is the best wood for a wood fired pizza oven?
When firing up your pizza oven you want to make sure your firewood doesn’t negatively impact the flavour and texture of your pizzas. We outline a few things you should consider when choosing firewood for your pizza oven, including levels of moisture, types of wood and where to source your wood.
Best Commercial Wood Fired Pizza Oven
A wood fired pizza oven is great for authentic pizzerias, restaurants looking to add to their menu and many other hospitality businesses. Sydney Fire Bricks discusses how you can choose the best commercial wood fired pizza oven for your business.
Brick or Stainless Pizza Oven: What’s Best For Your Backyard?
We’re going to look at all the pros and cons of each pizza oven material to try and work out which one is best for your backyard. We’ll also tell you where to go to get the best outdoor pizza ovens in town.
What is the best brick for a pizza oven?
Fire bricks, or refractory bricks, are what any registered pizza oven manufacturer should use for a pizza oven. These robust, heat-resistant bricks have been used for hundreds of years to make traditional Italian pizza ovens.
5 basic tips to get started with your new pizza oven
Starting a fire in the brick oven is best done using kindling. This gives your fire a completely natural start – and plus, there’s something so wholesome about building a fire from scratch. If that’s not possible, then make sure you use natural firelighters which don’t have any toxic chemicals in them. The last thing you want is for those things to end up in your food!
How To Use An Outdoor Pizza Oven
Get a good, strong fire going by using kindling or firelighters to start it. Keep monitoring the temperature and adding wood to the fire to get it nice and hot. You want to get an even spread of fire across the floor of the oven.
How to Choose the Perfect Pizza Oven
Choosing the perfect pizza oven has a lot to do with getting the size right. Ask yourself these questions before buying a pizza oven: How much outdoor space do you have? How many people in your family? How often do you entertain guests?