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Now that’s a pizza oven

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Picture of the Day – May 1, 2012This is my favorite picture from inside my mud oven. See how that flame rolls up along the ceiling? That’s a perfect fire for my oven. The floor of the oven is about 650 degrees and that makes the crust nice and crispy. As the bottom cooks, the flames dance overhead occasionally kissing the top of the pizza giving it that little something extra that only a wood fire can do. I don’t always get the perfect fire, but I’m working on it.

Firing up the Oven

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Picture of the Day – April 27, 2012

838 degrees fahrenheit! Now that’s hot, but it’s not hot enough. Whenever I want to fire up my mud oven I’ll crank it up past a 1000 degrees. It takes about three hours for the oven to get nice and saturated with heat. Once the coals are brushed aside, the floor of the oven will be about 750 and once it drops down to 650 I’ll start tossing in pizzas. At this temperature I can crank out a thin crust pizza in 90 seconds; I kid you not. Once you start eating pizza from a wood fired oven, you’ll never want to go back.

Is that an egg on my pizza?

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Picture of the Day – April 4, 2012

If you haven’t tried an egg on your pizza then you really should, especially if some nice pieces of guanciale are sprinkled around the pizza. Now don’t crack the egg until the last minute in the oven. Look at the yolk on the very left, I cracked it on the pizza right as it went into the oven. It didn’t take me very long to realize that I ought not to have done that. So I cracked on another egg during the last minute… much better don’t you think?