Our first homemade wood fired pizza


Yesterday we finally got around to making our very first homemade pizza in the wood fire oven.

Liam made 1kg of pizza dough and a delicious (secret recipe) tomato sauce and so our first pizza trials began.

The oven was lit with some dry brash and a few sticks to warm it up before it was given a heaped load of mixed hardwood wood chunks available from www.woodchunks.co.uk

The wood chunks worked very well and got it up to a steady 300 degrees Centigrade in short order. They quickly turned to glowing embers but, unlike big logs, they were much more maneuverable inside the oven and could be banked up around the edges with ease.

The oven temperature was much more stable than I expected and it was not as difficult to assess and adjust than I had expected.

Our pizza oven loaded with wood chunks
Our pizza oven loaded with wood chunks

The base on the first pizza was too thick but that was easily rectified and we quickly got some first class results.

Our first wood fired home made pizza
Our first wood fired home made pizza

We still need to work on a stand and get a proper prep table sorted out as I don’t think an old cupboard door balanced on the forklift will meet all the hygiene standards.

Makeshift pizza oven stand and prep table.
Makeshift pizza oven stand and prep table.

With the small bit of left over dough we made a few mini ‘soup loaves’ in tiny bread tins. Lovely!