Pizza Oven Floor Not Hot Enough

Pizza oven floor comparison.

Pizza oven floor not hot enough.

A good pizza oven is able to reach high temperatures without the long preheating times and extensive clean up that standard kitchen ovens require. The first pizza may be burned but the following pizzas should have a more evenly cooked base. Perhaps it s because i survived a long cold tennessee winter with only. This now brings us to the size of the oven floor.

To determine if the floor of the oven is hot enough all you need is a handful of flour. If so the problem may be that your oven isn t getting hot enough. If you think about it the size of the oven floor ultimately defines the size of the whole oven. When you drop a pizza on the hot base and see it instantly expand and cook in front of your eyes it is really cool.

To reduce the temperature you can remove some of the embers with a shovel. This is where a pizza oven comes in. Just because you re turning the knob to 200 c doesn t mean that the oven is actually reaching that temperature. The brand of brick i went with for the oven floor were vitcas fire bricks.

Build a killer fire for your pizza oven or whatever. Unfortunately your kitchen oven can t reach the 800 plus degrees required to do so. After baking a series of pizzas the floor significantly cools down and the pizza chef can either bake the pizzas for a longer period of time or wait for the floor temperature to recover. The temperature potential of a wood fired oven is largely dependent on the thickness of the oven walls and insulation or the design of the oven door and flue.

Further the small 12 x12 tiles result in too many oven. A couple years ago my husband built a pizza oven a giant fire breathing bug eyed goldfish named bubba but for the most part i ve been left in charge of building the fire. If you re constantly having to pop your dinner back in for another few minutes just to get it cooked properly there s probably a problem with your appliance that. If the flour catches fire instantly or if it burns in 10 seconds the floor is too hot and you will burn your pizza crust.

So if you are getting burning issues on the oven floor you can try replicating the position of the pizza each time you cook. Why my oven is not hot enough.