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Hand-made pizza dough vs. no-knead pizza dough.   You don’t have a stand mixer? Never mind. In this article we will explain to you how to get a perfect hand-made pizza dough.   For [...]

Alfa ovens are popular all over the world for their quality, their high cooking performances, their elegant design and energy efficiency.  From the very beginning, Alfa has focused on continuous [...]

Home-made sourdough starter. How to make and maintain your own sourdough starter.   What is sourdough starter? The sourdough starter (or mother yeast) is a compound obtained by a [...]

INGREDIENTS: Serves 4 1 kg Italian 00 flour 650 ml water 4 g brewer’s yeast 25 g olive oil 25 g salt   METHOD Pour half the water into a jug and until the yeast has dissolved. Place half the [...]

The wood-fired oven is a massive cooking machine, used by many professionals in the hospitality business, especially in pizzerias. On top of great baking performances that allow you to produce [...]

INGREDIENTS FOR TWO LOAVES 500 g strong wholemeal bread flour 500 g plain flour 600 ml water 2-4 g brewer’s yeast 25 g olive oil 25 g salt 1 tsp honey 30 g mixed seeds     METHOD Pour [...]

After the smashing success of the ONE wood-fired oven, the venerable Italian brand of pizza ovens bets big on its gas counterpart. Ultralight and compact, ONE gas-fired oven has been explicitly [...]

In 2019, Alfa Forni’s R&D department worked hard to devise a new fume extraction system for residential and commercial stainless-steel ovens, putting great emphasis on the shape to increase [...]

The world of wood-burning oven is wide and varied depending on differences in use and context. This situation has encouraged manufacturing companies to specialise in market segments such as home [...]

Baking home-made bread is an old passion that is being rediscovered. Bread has been a staple in the diet of many earlier civilizations and at its simplest can be boiled down to two ingredients: [...]

ALFA is proud to introduce the ALFA ONE – Compact and lightweight with the power of our traditional ovens. Designed to fit in your space – no matter what size – ONE brings an [...]

Wood-fired oven is certainly at the top of the heap because of various reasons. It can reach very high temperature, distributes heat evenly and the firewood imparts pizza that extra kick that [...]