How To Light A Pizza Oven

Use a long handled metal hook or brush to push the burning logs and hot coals to one side of the pizza oven.

How to light a pizza oven. Watch how to light an igneus classico pizza oven or an igneus bambino pizza oven by clicking on the video on the right. Build a pyramid of smaller pieces of wood and kindling over the top. Simple and effective way to light a pizza oven in any weather conditions. Ensure that you clean your wood fired pizza oven on a regular basis to continue to enjoy the best pizzas and keep your oven in good health.

If there are still flames or embers leave the door vent open for a few minutes or if you don t have one leave the door ajar to avoid too much smoke inside the oven. When the wood inside the oven has burnt down a bit and your oven is at 400c it s time to push it to the back of the wood fired pizza oven to create space for your pizzas. Lighting a wood fired pizza oven can be both fun and frustrating. It is fun when you know the exact steps to follow.

If you are cooking pizza move the embers to the back of the oven so you can place the pizza at the front. By general rule you don t need to add any more wood logs once the pizza oven temperature reaches 150 because your oven will carry on increasing in temperature even without any fire or flames. Close the door of the oven to get it up to the desired temperature and ensure the flue is open to suck through the oxygen feeding the fire inside the wood fired pizza oven. In this video we will step you through how to prepare a fire in a wood fired pizza oven.

Lighting your pizza oven. I encountered difficulties when i started out. Ideally the pizza oven needs to be lit and tended to for about 3 hours before cooking to ensure the optimum temperature of approximately 450 degrees c is achieved. Check for embers still burning.