(Minimum of 15 with maximum of students)
Wood-fired ovens, also known as wood ovens (or Forno a legna in Italian), are ovens that use wood fuel for cooking. There are two types of wood-fired ovens: “black ovens” and “white ovens”. Black ovens are heated by burning wood in a chamber and the food is cooked in that same chamber alongside the fire while it is still going, or in the heated chamber after the fire and coals have been swept out. White ovens are heated by heat transfer from a separate combustion chamber and flue-gas path, and thus the oven remains “white”. While the traditional wood-fired oven is a masonry oven, such ovens can also be built out of adobe, cob, or even cast iron.
Wood-fired ovens are distinct from wood cookstoves which have a hot cooking surface for pots and pans, like on a gas or electric stove. A wood cookstove may also have an oven but it is separate from the fire chamber. Regardless of material they all have an oven chamber consisting of a floor (or hearth), a dome, and an entry (oven opening).
Cooking with a wood fired oven is a truely unique experience. A Wood fired Oven is an investment in lifestyle and entertaining. The oven gives you a focal point in your alfresco area to enjoy the evenings and weekends.
Cooking in a Wood fired oven has been the exclusive privilege of chefs, pizza cooks, bakers, and food connoisseurs for centuries. Only a wood fired oven gives that unique flavour that cannot be reproduced in a normal kitchen oven.
In a Wood fired oven the cooking process adds flavour to whatever’s placed inside. So why is everything cooked this way so tasty? The answer is a matter of complex physics, mainly to do with the design and the thick outer shell trapping four kinds of heat (thermal, convection, residual and radiant).
Are you interested in finding out more, book a class and be introduced to a truely unique cooking experience
Class Menu
Pizza dough
napolitana pizza sauce
Cheesy garlic bread
Roasted capsicums
served with freshly made bread
Students make pizza
with a variety of toppings
Nutella pizza
with fresh cream
Tea and coffee