Curing Pizza Ovens

The purpose of curing your oven is to remove moisture within the walls and the floor the goal is to slowly increase the heat inside the oven over a period of time and build up to high heat temperature level.

Curing pizza ovens.

Ideal for large family style pies individual pizzas and breads. Curing your pizza oven once your oven is in place you are ready to begin curing your pizza oven. Warning we recommend a total of 4 hours of curing at a temperature of no more than 100 c on the first day. The first day fire is no more than kindling and thin strips of wood.

This is achieved by lighting several small fires inside the oven over a period of two days gradually increasing the pizza oven temperature. After curing your oven can reach temperatures in excess of 1 000 f so if you cure it then do your stucco facade the first time you cook pizza the stucco will also have water that tries to dry and cure causing it to crack and possibly ruin your seal on the oven. Curing a brick wood fired pizza oven requires some special attention and is a process that is ideally done over several days. The process should therefore be not too rapid not too hot as the long term performance of the oven may be affected.

3 when can i start my curing process. So what does it mean to cure a pizza oven. More product details close. It doesn t matter if it rained during that week.

During the course of day 4 keep gradually increasing the heat intensity of your fire. You will need to purchase white sand sold separately for an insulating layer underneath the pizza stones inside the oven. Day 4 ready for pizza your final day of curing. In a nutshell curing simply means removing the moisture in the mortar the trick is when you re curing something to not do it too fast or create some massive bonfire right out of the gate.

Showcase your skills cooking the perfect pie as you teach others the art of baking in a wood fired oven. You need to work up to it. This process is meant to gradually dry out and equalise the moisture content of the oven components. This video is about curing an oven.

You build a series of five increasingly larger fires starting with a low temperature see below. Curing this wood fired pizza oven. These ovens are made out of brick and mortar. It is important that you cure your pizza oven slowly over a 5 day period.