More than just Pizza in a Wood-Fired Pizza Oven

Most people know that wood burning ovens are great for cooking traditional pizza, but not everyone is aware that these ovens can be used for almost any type of recipe imaginable, creating unique and interesting flavors.  One of our favorite ways to use the Forno wood burning ovens aside from pizza is to cook time honored Italian dishes.  You’ll be shocked at the flavor differences you get between cooking things like lasagna in a gas oven compared to a wood-fired one. Baked Ziti develops flavors in the meat and sauce that you might have thought were never possible. One of our favorite classic Italian meals, however, is porchetta.

If you have never heard of porchetta before, well, let me introduce you to it. Pronounced as ‘porketta’,  porchetta is basically a whole lot of pork stuffed with a bunch of delicious herbs as well as a bunch more pork.  We’re so excited about this item that we made a video on how to make porchetta in a wood burning oven. Making this item may seem like a lot of work, and the presentation may seem really foreign to people who are not used to working with whole pigs, but we promise that the flavor you get out of porchetta is second to none. It would be a shame to have a wood-fired oven and not experience that magic that is the whole roasted pig.

Porchetta from Lisa D'Addazio on Vimeo.