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.

Which Wood Fired Pizza Oven is for you.

Forno Rustico 120 Wood Fired Pizza Oven 

Cooking Chamber Dimensions:

Interior Dimensions: 47"   diameter
Exterior Dimensions: 52" x 61"
Cooking Surface: 12.5 sq.ft.

12" Pizza 6
1 lb. Loaves 10
Roasting Pans 3 - 16" x 13"
Turkey Size 3 Large

Forno Rustico 100 Wood Fired Pizza Oven
Cooking Chamber Dimensions:

Interior Dimensions: 39" diameter
Exterior Dimensions: 44" x 53"
Cooking Surface: 8.6 sq. ft.

12" Pizza 3
1 lb. Loaves 6
Roasting Pans 2 - 16" x 13"
Turkey Size 2 Large

Forno Rustico 80 Wood Fired Pizza Oven
Cooking Chamber Dimensions:

Interior Dimensions: 31" diameter
Exterior Dimensions: 36" x 46"
Cooking Surface: 5.3 sq. ft.

12" Pizza 2
1 lb. Loaves 5
Roasting Pans 2 - 15" x 12"
Turkey Size 2 Small

Forno Rustico Quadro Wood Fired Oven
Cooking Chamber Dimensions:

Interior Dimensions: 27" x  30"
Exterior Dimensions: 35" x 32"
Cooking Surface: 5.6 sq. ft

12" Pizza 2
1 lb. Loaves 4
Roasting Pans 2 - 15" x 12"
Turkey Size 2 Small

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.

Wood-fired Oven Roasted Potatoes

Ingredients:

8 medium Yukon potatoes

Extra virgin olive oil

Salt & pepper

2 sprigs of fresh rosemary

2 cloves of garlic, chopped

Peel and wash the potatoes, and cut them into bite-sized pieces. Place them into a greased casserole. Season the potatoes with salt and pepper, drizzle with olive oil, and sprinkle with garlic and rosemary. Bake at 400^oF (200^oC) for approximately 1 hour. These are very easy and delicious. Enjoy!

Serves 4

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.

Creating Your Ideal Pizza

A vast majority of modern pizza restaurants stick to a stable of a few very common ingredients: dough, red sauce, mozzarella cheese, meat and vegetables. It’s this formula that creates classics like pepperoni pizza, all meat pizzas, vegetarian pizzas and other common specialties you see at most mass marketed pizza chains. This stable of ingredients works for a lot of people, but the world of pizza is so much bigger than what we have been led to believe. When you have the equipment to make your own pizzas, like a wood burning oven, then you have the chance to create pizzas with ingredients that almost no restaurant would ever offer. Below are ways you change ingredients to create more interesting and flavorful pies.

-Cheeses. Mozzarella has been the king of pizza cheese for a long time, but there are so many other options. Feta cheese provides a strong aroma to pizzas looking for a bit of a punch and it goes great with other Greek ingredients. Asiago cheese has a deep nutty flavor and has a much stronger profile than mozzarella. Goat cheese offers a very distinctive flavor and will create a pizza with an almost completely different flavor than you’ve tried before.

-Sauces. Red tomato sauce is very versatile and flavorful, but it’s not the only game in town. Olive oil can be used in a variety ways as a substitute for red sauce. For example, you can infuse olive oil with things like garlic and basic to create a unique and powerful flavor. You can also use a white sauce on a pizza by making a roux or Alfredo sauce for a more creamy and delicate flavor. Some people even use things like BBQ sauce or salad dressing to create their desired flavors.

-Toppings. There are not a whole lot of things that don’t go well on a pizza. Open up your imagination a little and experiment with lots of different things. One of my personal favorites is artichokes and roasted bell peppers. You can also experiment with different types of meats. Use ingredient combinations from other types of food to figure out what would go well together on a pizza.

What Makes a Wood Burning Oven Special?

Everyone knows what an oven is. You heat it up, put some food inside, close the door, the food gets hot, then you eat it. It’s old, old technology by which food gets better when the molecules inside heat up and release tons of flavors that would have otherwise gone unnoticed. Cooking food has been around in human culture since we have written records and far before that. But through industrialization and modern technology the way we cook has become sterilized. Families and tribes used to cook around a wood burning fire, but now we cook in metal ovens heated by electric coils and a lot of the flavors have been lost.

Wood burning ovens bring families back to a traditional cooking style that is a huge part of our evolution. Food cooked with the heat of burning wood develops a distinct flavor profile that completely eclipses the flavors you get from a regular oven.  While a normal oven only imparts heat upon cooked food, wood burning ovens impart the flavor of the wood and smoke into everything that is cooked in the oven. This added flavor creates really unique dishes depending on the type of wood you use. This is why the best pizza and Italian restaurants in the world use wood burning ovens to cook their high quality items.