Indirect Wood Burning Oven Offers More

What is a Indirect Wood Burning Oven?

This indirect wood burning oven isn't just perfect for pizzas. You can also cook a variety of foods link roasts, porchetta, breads, desserts, and delicious Thanksgiving turkeys. The indirect heat system reduces wood consumption and oven preparation time. The Forno Classico 80 or Forno Premium 100 wood burning oven is a great choice if you are starting on your path to cooking with wood fired ovens!  It has a stylish design and a premium stainless steel interior!

The Forno Classico 80 wood burning oven offers three cooking surfaces and doubles as a convection oven if you don’t need a real fire.    It’s perfect for the beginning food connoisseur.

Wood Fired Pizza Oven Plans

Have you been dreaming about building your own wood fired pizza oven? We can make it easy with one of our Forno Rustico Wood Fired Pizza Oven kits. They look fantastic and will enhance your outdoor or indoor cooking and entertaining area.  Install a Forno Rustico wood fired pizza oven in your home and start to enjoy the alternative cooking method. Download the wood fired pizza oven plans here.

Custom Wood Fired Pizza Oven Installation

Imagine having this work of art in your backyard. The possibilities of custom wood fired pizza oven installations are endless. Please send us photos of your custom installation, we'd love to see what you've done.

Custom Forno Rustico 120 wood fired pizza oven installation and patio construction by Italco Construction Inc.

Wood Fired Apple Pie

Baking in a Wood Fired Oven: After pushing the coals to the back of the wood fired oven near the wall, brush the ashes off of the floor.  The chunks of glowing hardwood coals should have little or no flame when the apple pie goes in. Every 15 minutes, turn apple pie so the other end faces the fire.

1 pie = 2 crusts (10 inches)

Ingredients for Crust:
2 2/3 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
1 cup shortening
7-8 tablespoons ice water

Mix flour, salt & shortening; cut in with pastry cutter. Add water last. Roll into a ball. You may refrigerate or roll out right away.

Ingredients for Filling:
12-14 apples (Golden Delicious, regular size)
¾ cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp. nutmeg

Peel and slice apples. Mix all ingredients together. Make sure to fill pie all the way before baking.  Brush crust with milk and sprinkle with sugar.  Poke with a fork. Bake 1 hour at 350° F and put cookie sheet under pie.

* Put cut-outs on after milk & sugar. *

Luxury Outdoor Kitchen Installation

We enjoy some of the best weather in the San Diego area. Outdoor living space gives you a place to prepare meals in your outdoor kitchen, entertain or relax with family and friends.

From exposed beam construction to retractable glass walls this outdoor living area was designed for serious outdoor entertaining.

Click Here to view a tour of this luxurious outdoor living space.

We supplied the client with the wood fired ovens for this outdoor living space.

Prosciutto & Arugula Pizza in a Wood Burning Oven

Use one of our Forno wood burning ovens to create this light summer pizza.

Basic pizza dough (recipe on previous blog)
Flour, for rolling out dough
Extra virgin olive oil
Thinly sliced prosciutto Fresh arugula, washed
Parmigiano Reggiano shavings

Roll out pizza dough, adding flour as needed to prevent sticking. Drizzle with olive oil and bake directly on stone in wood-burning oven at about 600-700F (300-350C) until crisp and golden-brown on the edges. Remove from oven and top with prosciutto, arugula, and parmigiano. Serve right away.

Using Real Cheese for Your Pizza

What’s the point of using a fantastic tool like a wood burning pizza oven if you’re going to use subpar ingredients? It’s arguable that cheese is the most important part of the pie, but many people end up using cheeses from the grocery store that have a bunch of additives and chemicals that take away from the real flavor of good cheese. The most common cheese used for pizza pies is mozzarella, which is available in a variety of different ways including fresh, skim and infused with a variety of different spices and herbs.

The potential of cheese and pizza is so much bigger than mozzarella. There are over 400 different types of Italian cheeses, many of which would be fantastic as a main cheese or as an accompanying flavor on a pie. The key to picking a good cheese is to find one that melts consistently and goes well with the flavor of tomatoes or whatever sauce you are using, but even this isn’t a hard a fast rule. Some pizzas use unique cheese, topping and sauce combinations to create something completely unique. You can even create a pizzas that barely uses any cheese at all except for a generous dusting of Parmesan Reggiano or Pecorino Romano. Whatever kind of pizza you are looking to make, your wood burning oven can make it burst with flavor.