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Gas vs. Wood-fired Pizza Ovens: Which Is Best?

8/11/2023

Pizza has recently been nominated for recognition by UNESCO as an excellent Italian cooking tradition. Pizza preparation, leavening, size, and filling all follow stringent manufacturing specifications. It makes pizza recognized as Traditional Specialty Guaranteed (TSG) by Commission Regulation (EU) n. 97/2010.

Pizza is everyone's favorite food. It doesn't matter where you are and where you are from; pizza always be the number one food in mind. Traditionally, you will need a pizza oven to make a pizza made of bricks and use wood as fuel. Now, having a pizza is a bit easier with technology. There are many electric or gas pizza oven that is portable and gives you ease to make pizza. But with these technologies, what would happen to pizza culture and business in the future?

The worst thing about traditional pizza ovens is that they emit smoke and pollution that may harm the respiratory system. But nowadays, pizza ovens produce less smoke and have a filter installed. A cheaper option is a pizza oven that uses natural gas as fuel. Many restaurants experienced that they could save $1,500 per month with a gas pizza oven. With a gas pizza oven, you can have the same pizza with the same ingredients and quality but more cleanly and inexpensively.

Gas-fired ovens were found to be a suitable way of baking pizza. A worldwide organization created by the Italian government, Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana, even grants a specific certification to pizzerias that follow requiring standards for Neapolitan pizza.
 
Pizza Ovens

Why don't you use a gas oven for pizza?

Cooking is one of the essentials for producing a high-quality product.

Wood-fired ovens should be used in compliance with the cooking standard for pizza. In wood-fired ovens, the cooking process is typically based on radiative heat transfer as the major mode, with a cooking duration of no longer than 90 seconds and temperatures of the dome and bed equal to 430°C and 485°C. This is way hotter than a regular home oven. This heat will help create a crisp crust of the pizza. But as we have mentioned before, airborne and hazardous air pollutants from wood combustion may affect air quality.

We suggest changing into a gas pizza oven.

SOFWE Pizza Oven, a small, portable pizza oven that produces delicious results

With the SOFWE pizza oven, everyone can make delicious pizza everywhere and finally say goodbye to frozen pizzas. SOFWE pizza oven may resemble a simple pizza oven, but this gas-powered garden tool is easy to use.

If we describe the SOFWE pizza oven in 3 words, it would be portable, simple, and fast. It is suitable for parties and gatherings.

SOFWE Pizza Oven Design

The oven is completely built and practically operational. You must open the legs, insert the pizza stone into the oven, and connect the gas canister. You'll be enjoying your homemade pizza within an hour. The design is also quite simple. With only one knob, you can control the ignition and gas flow.

SOFWE Pizza Oven Features

This product only requires some of the bells and whistles to be excellent. The oven has excellent heat retention qualities, meaning it can reach the ready-to-cook temperature in about 30 seconds. It is a free-standing unit, and being extremely portable makes it easy to turn it around to counteract an unfavorable wind direction (always try to keep the wind from blowing straight into the oven's opening).

The pizza is cooked on a cordierite pizza stone, which can withstand high temperatures, distributes heat evenly, and absorbs moisture from the dough to produce the ideal base. At the same time, cordierite is a mineral frequently used to make kiln shelves.

Due to its reduced thermal expansion, which makes it less prone to breaking, cordierite is stronger and more resilient than stones made of ceramic or clay.

SOFWE Pizza Oven Cooking Ability and Usability

When setting up, ensure the SOFWE pizza oven's control is accessible and not blocked by a wall. This knob is important because the SOFWE pizza oven only has one knob at the back: ignition and temperature control.

It's easy to fire up your oven once your gas is connected, and it's pleasant not to struggle with complicated matches to start the flame. There is no built-in thermometer, so you'll need to use an infrared thermometer to verify the temperature of the oven and pizza stone, but this requires a few point-and-click operations.

It would help if you kept an eye on the pizza once it is in the oven since the heat source is at the rear, and in most cases, it is easy to burn the crust. You must turn the pizza regularly to avoid burning the pizza crust, especially the one near the burners.

Without a rotating pizza peel, insert a pizza spatula into the oven, remove the pizza, turn it on the peel by hand, and then place it back into the oven.

Some sources have discovered that cooking the pizza for 4 minutes at a slightly lower heat (about 410 degrees Celsius) while flipping it every 25 to 30 seconds produced a more gratifying crust and base than the fast-paced pizza preparation method in only 60 seconds. Feel free to find your perfect way to cook pizza with SOFWE Pizza Oven.

Back to the condition of the oven. Because there is no door to maintain heat (unlike the Ooni Frya), some heat is lost toward the front of the oven. Therefore, you must keep it protected and out of bad weather.

SOFWE Pizza Oven Result

Despite its specifications, the last question is how the pizza turned out. You may counter that it's because of the ingredients, but we believe that a great oven results in great pizza.
Here we give tips for having a great pizza with SOFWE Pizza Oven.

After preparing the dough, place it on the peel and top with your desired toppings. To avoid unwelcome stickiness, generously sprinkle semolina flour over the dough. This will enable you to flip the dough without difficulty.

You should also wait a few minutes between pizzas to partially allow the pizza stone to regain its heat.

It's easy to get that desired light and airy crust if you flip the pizza every 20 to 30 seconds. You may, however, reward yourself with a golden-brown crust that is crispy on the outside and pillowy soft inside, with a good helping of leopard-like spots, by keeping a tight check on your pizza while it cooks.

As the result of SOFWE Pizza Oven, The toppings were perfectly cooked, and the cheese was bubbling and gently browned. Your pizza is done when the cheese has melted beautifully, and the dough becomes golden. However, gas-powered appliances lack the smokey flavor of wood-fired ovens.

Conclusion

SOFWE Pizza Oven offers a pleasant and hassle-free way to cook pizza. With its straightforward design, quick preheating capabilities, and potent heat output, you can focus on what matters most—having fun—because, after all, isn't that what life is all about?

SOFWE Pizza Oven is a gas-powered pizza oven; without the effort of maintaining a fire, the oven heats up to 200 degrees Celsius in just 30 seconds, enabling you to quickly create delicious pizzas (and they are fantastic pizzas). The one drawback is that you miss the delicious smokey flavor that a wood-fired oven imparts, but it won't appeal to everyone.

You'll need a couple of extras using this pizza oven: a pizza peel and an infrared thermometer are necessary. Each pizza cooks quickly, making it simple to prepare a variety in order. This makes pizza a fantastic complement to a BBQ or even a quick midweek meal.

Alternatives:

We have concluded that a gas-powered pizza oven is more economically efficient and environmentally friendly. But it doesn't mean that a wood-burning pizza oven is bad. The original traditional pizzas are made with wood-burning pizzas.

If you are the type of person who sticks with tradition, SOFWE also has a Large Wood-Fired Outdoor Pizza Oven. This portable pizza oven will give you a perfect pizza with a nice smoke flavor. You can have the information about this pizza oven here.


https://www.sofwe.com/products/patio-heating/pizza-oven/portable-garden-gas-pizza-oven.asp

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