How To Light A Pizza Oven

Ideally the pizza oven needs to be lit and tended to for about 3 hours before cooking to ensure the optimum temperature of approximately 450 degrees c is achieved.

How to light a pizza oven.

Light your firelighter following the instructions provided with it and place it in the centre of your jenga style pile of kindling ensuring it will be able to set the kindling alight. Please note that the inside of the wood fired pizza oven is extremely hot so it is recommended you wear gloves. Here is our step by step guide to lighting a pizza oven open the door of your pizza oven and the chimney smoke control vent both need to be kept open throughout the fire lighting process place some kindling in the centre of the oven. Open the flue 12 o clock position and door.

Slide your pizzas into the pizza oven rotating them as they cook to cook them evenly. Make sure to move any large embers then brush the ash towards the embers. Once your fire is started inside the oven gradually build it up. This will give you enough time to make your pizza dough or have a drink or both depending on which way you roll.

The fire should begin to build up. Light the natural firelighter with a match and leave the door off the oven and the chimney damper open if the oven has a damper. How to light and use the pizza oven. For 10 minutes keep adding kindling into the pizza oven at the rate of about 4 pieces every couple of minutes.

A quick mop with a damp cloth on a handle or peel and you are good to go to and will avoid a pizza base full of ash. Position your ember pizza oven with the back of the oven into the wind. You ve lit your fire for long enough and now pushed the embers to the side. Three or four small logs with a few pine cones or other kindling material should be fine.

This will assist airflow into the oven helping to increase temperatures. When done simply slide the pizzas out and enjoy. You can also use your pizza peel to fan air into the back of the firebox.