How To Light Up A Pizza Oven

Cleaning ash just before cooking.

How to light up a pizza oven.

Hi well i needed some comic releif so here it is i built a pizza oven and have struggeld to find the best way to light it without ending up smelling light smokey the bear so her is my 3 youtube vids that ends in the best lamb ever. For 10 minutes keep adding kindling into the pizza oven at the rate of about 4 pieces every couple of minutes. The fire should begin to build up. You ve lit your fire for long enough and now pushed the embers to the side.

Place a firelighter in the centre of the pizza oven floor. Make sure to move any large embers then brush the ash towards the embers. Close the door of the oven to get it up to the desired temperature and ensure the flue is open to suck through the oxygen feeding the fire inside the wood fired pizza oven. 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.

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. Simple and effective way to light a pizza oven in any weather conditions. Stack small pieces of kindling around it to form a jenga style tower that s five or six rows high see image. We light up the oven with the help of the accendilegna kit after the hay we put in the fire sticks and we light it up slowly we add the larger wood and close the oven to raise the temperature we close the door to avoid losing heat.

How to light and use the pizza oven.