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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thermal layer

Food (other); Pizza

This includes all of the material in the pizza oven that absorbs and retains heat for cooking. It can include the oven floor, oven dome, the concrete layer of the insulating hearth and any ...

tuscan oven

Food (other); Pizza

The Tuscan oven features a slightly higher oven dome and less aggressive inward slope than the Neapolitan oven. It is said to excel at baking. That said, the style are very similar in the bigger ...

The oven door is used to regulate air in-take and the strength of the fire during oven firing, and to close the oven for retained heat cooking. An insulated door improves a pizza oven's ability to ...

insulation

Food (other); Pizza

The layer that encloses the pizza oven that stops heat from escaping. Typically, this means a layer of vermiculite concrete below the oven, and both insulating blanket and bermiculite layers above ...

concrete block

Food (other); Pizza

These 8"x8"x16' blocks are easy to use and inexpensive ($1 each) for building an oven stand. For indoor installation, and builders who are looking for a faster or lighter installation method should ...