| The wood fired pizza oven is commonly known as | | | | In order to heat up a white oven, heat is transferred |
| Forno, in Italian, or simply just wood ovens. These | | | | using a separate combustion chamber and also a fuel |
| ovens are usually built as outdoor pizza ovens and | | | | gas path. This way the oven remains white or clean. |
| make use of wood fuel when it comes to cooking. | | | | When looking at the traditional wood fired pizza oven, |
| When looking at pizza ovens, there are actually two | | | | these can also be made of cast iron, cob, adobe or |
| types. These are white ovens and black ovens. The | | | | masonry. Wood fired ovens are distinct from wood |
| difference between these two ovens is that the one | | | | cook stoves. Wood cook stoves have flat cooking |
| uses wood and the other uses a bi-product fuel, gas. In | | | | surfaces for pans and pots. These get extra hot |
| order to heat up a black oven you need to insert | | | | when wood is burnt. This type of stove can easily be |
| wood in the chamber. Food is then cooked in the | | | | compared to electric stoves. The thing about wood |
| same chamber next to where the fire is simmering. It | | | | cook stoves is that it has the oven and hot plates but |
| can be done this way or when the oven is nice and | | | | all these are separate from the wood chamber or fire |
| hot, the embers can be removed or scraped aside | | | | chamber. |
| and the food can be inserted to cook. | | | | |