| Not all home pizza ovens are created equal. Some are | | | | your failed attempts. You therefore need a machine |
| just for general purpose baking and cooking. While | | | | that's specifically designed to bake the perfect pizza. |
| others are specifically designed to bake a number of | | | | The Specialist |
| pizzas with quality in mind. | | | | Gas pizza ovens are particularly manufactured for this |
| The Wrong Tool | | | | single purpose. A thinner form factor means less |
| If you've been using your ordinary kitchen oven in | | | | volume of air and oven surface to heat up before |
| baking pizza, you undoubtedly experienced problems | | | | baking. This translates to the concentration of heat to |
| regarding consistency in quality. There were times | | | | a lesser volume for the same surface area that |
| when the pizza came out 'just right,' but most of the | | | | results to more even baking. There is also less delay in |
| time they're either burned, over-cooked, under-cooked, | | | | heat transfer when you have fewer air and space to |
| unevenly-cooked or soggy in texture. Then there's the | | | | go through. The precise timer in gas pizza ovens are |
| issue with taste that deteriorated because of poor | | | | also calibrated with the residual heat in the oven after it |
| baking equipment. You probably also tried using | | | | switches off the gas. The warm water vapor will also |
| different trays, adding pizza stones, placing bricks or | | | | remain longer and closer to the pizza and will help |
| putting lava rocks just to bake the pizza at the right | | | | ensure that it is neither too soggy or too dry. Closer |
| temperature for a preset duration. | | | | heat source to the pie also enable the direct and even |
| The Jack-of-All-Trades Oven | | | | application of heat across the food surface. |
| The bad news and the sad reality is that most, if not | | | | There's a Size Just for you |
| all, of these tricks does not change that fact that you | | | | Gas pizza ovens come in different sizes that fulfill a |
| are using the wrong equipment for the job. It's like | | | | certain requirement. The smallest ones have the |
| driving a truck in a racetrack when a more suitable | | | | footprint of a 15-inch laptop and can handle 1 or more |
| racecar will fare much better. The conventional kitchen | | | | personal size pizzas. The domestic versions can hold |
| oven is designed for general purpose baking and | | | | 16-inch wide platters and could also be multi-layered. A |
| cooking. These include baking bread, cookies, cake, | | | | rectangular flat oven made from steel with an |
| lasagna or roasting beef, turkey, or chicken and that | | | | elevated body that is raised by 4 legs to waist level is |
| doesn't include your favorite pizza. | | | | the next size of gas pizza ovens that can bake at |
| Tolerant Food vs. The Exacting Pizza | | | | least 2 pies at a time. The commercial versions can fit |
| Baking and cooking these food do not require precise | | | | wider sizes and have more layers. If you are serious |
| temperatures and duration. You can leave bread a | | | | about your pizza passion, these pizza ovens are the |
| few minutes longer in a kitchen oven and it will still turn | | | | way to go. Their durable steel frame and robust hinges |
| out fine. You can slightly over-cook the turkey for | | | | can withstand years of abuse and still continue to |
| Thanksgiving and just add more sauce to compensate | | | | perform like new. |
| for the dried meat. Unfortunately, your precious pizza | | | | Choose Wisely |
| that is only a few centimeters thick cannot endure this | | | | What ever the size or capacity of the gas pizza oven |
| cruel torture. | | | | you choose, make sure that it will be sufficient for your |
| Custom Baking Solution | | | | needs and fit your budget. Don't get the "cute" ones |
| Pizza baking requires a delicate balance between | | | | when you're planning to bake more than a plate size at |
| temperature, baking time, moisture content and heat | | | | a time. Also, don't buy the table-sized ones if you're |
| source. General purpose ovens are not designed to | | | | just baking a few platters for the season. As a final |
| handle this undertaking effectively and efficiently. That's | | | | word, choose the right one that fits the pizza, the |
| the reason why you get a hit-or-miss result with a | | | | kitchen and the budget. Happy baking. |
| kitchen oven and pretty end up discarding or eating | | | | |