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Summer is the best time to enjoy outdoor entertainment, cookouts, and barbecues with your neighbors and friends. However, outdoor entertainment can be quite tedious, especially with all the [...]

Brewer’s yeast is a key ingredient for baking. It’s the most used starter in our recipes for wood-fired or gas-fired oven cooking. You can freeze your yeast and defrost it just minutes before [...]

Calculating nutrition facts and calories for a pizza made in a pizzeria can be pretty hard but this surely won’t prevent you from scoffing all of it. If, on the other hand, you can make a [...]

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 [...]