Pizza

Pizza

A popular dish of Italian origin made from flattened bread dough baked with a topping mixture of tomato sauce, cheese, and other toppings such as meat and vegetables.

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commercial pizza oven

Food (other); Pizza

Commercial pizza ovens and residential pizza ovens are based on the same basic design, where the only differences are the size of the oven, the thickness of the refractory material used and the ...

thermal mass

Food (other); Pizza

Thermal mass describes the volume of refractory material in the oven that have to heat up in order to prepare the oven for cooking. Thermal mass likes maintain equilibrium. If one a piece of ...

cutter pan

Food (other); Pizza

A perforated or solid round metal pan with a sharp outer edge and sloped sides for baking pizza.

vent

Food (other); Pizza

The vent rests just in front and above the oven opening, and collects the smoke and hot air that is exhausted from the top half of the opening. It usually gets very hot and should be built using ...

pizza oven

Food (other); Pizza

A traditional, round Italian wood-fired oven optimized for cooking pizza, roasts, vegetables and a single batch of bread from a single firing. Sometimes features an LP fixture for back-up and ...

A spade-shaped tool with a long handle used to get bread or pizza out of the oven. Peels can be made of metal or wood. The wooden ones are usually for putting the pizzas into the oven and the metal ...