How To: Wood Fired Pizza Oven
There's nothing like the taste and smell of freshly cooked pizza. A large, wood-fired oven like this can be daunting at first but you can follow this simple step by step for faff-free pizza goodness!
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Step 1:
Start a small fire with a firelighters and kindling in the metal tray
Add small pieces of wood, a few at a time
Push it to the left hand side of the oven
Step 2:
Replace the oven door but leave a small gap on the left side
Step 3:
Keep adding more wood until the temperature reaches 400°C
Step: 4
Put a good sprinkling of semolina on the pizza peel before you put the dough onto the peel.
Step 5:
On a board, pull or roll your dough out to desired size.
Put the flattened dough onto the semolina covered pizza peel.
Now add sauce and toppings!
Step 6:
Slide pizza off peel into oven
If oven is up to temperature pizzas should only take 2-3 minutes to cook.
Keep door closed as much as possible but turn pizza once or twice during cooking
Step 7:
Shimmy your cooked pizza onto a board, cut and enjoy!
Brush out any burnt semolina into ash bucket before cooking the next pizza.
