I love pizza. I should clarify with saying that I don’t even like the traditional American mass produced garbage commonly referred to as pizza. I love real pizza. The first time I had a real pizza was in Naples, Italy. Fitting, considering that is pizza’s hometown. That is the first time I had a pizza cooked in a wood fired oven, made with minimal, but quality, ingredients.
I have a few goals/projects I want to accomplish this summer. One of those projects is building an outdoor wood fired oven. An outdoor oven can be used for way more than just baking pizza. You can use them for pretty much anything you would use a gas indoor oven for –minus certain finicky desserts that require a steady constant temperature. I will be able to use it to bake fresh bread, roasting meats and vegetables, roast poultry and other such ilk, but yes, most importantly, firing the most awesome pizzas known to man.
The oven I am going to build probably won’t look near as rockstar-Martha-Stewartish as the one in the photo above, but damned if I’m not going to try. I have been reading a few blogs around the internet about the adventures some people have had building their own outdoor wood fired ovens, and from what I have taken from all of this research, is that I have my work cut out for me.
I’m not exactly what some people would call “handy”. I love to cook, and I’m actually pretty good at it, but building things with my hands… well, there are things I’m better at. But, I want this oven more than I can even express in words at the moment, and therefore, I am going to give this project my A-game come spring. Hopefully I will be able to complete it before the apocalypse begins…
I've never had any other pizza except the traditional American pizza. This blog made me a little hungry to be honest when first reading it. Good luck on creating your own oven, sounds like it can be a long and difficult task.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty cool idea if you ask me. I don't think I've ever seen an outdoor oven. That would be awesome to just chill outside while you got something in the oven. I really like the outdoors, I just had a vision of my friends and I drinking beer and getting too drunk to cook pizza in the oven. When I cook at work, we use a basic electric oven which probably excludes some of the flavor from your outdoor wood fired oven. I think it would be very interested to try when it's all said and done. Maybe I'll come scoop a slice when it's all done.
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