What is the best option between a wood-burning, a gas-burning or an electric oven? The answer is simple: it depends on how you use it.<\/strong><\/p>\n The oven is the most versatile kitchen appliance<\/strong> as it is used to cook practically any type of dish: from appetizers to main courses passing through side dishes, desserts and of course bread, pizza and leavened baked products<\/strong> that require high, constant temperatures.<\/p>\n Ovens offer different performances according to the fuel they use.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The most popular home ovens are:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In this article, we will see how to select the best appliance for the food we want to cook, focusing on the main features of the three aforementioned oven types<\/strong><\/a><\/b>, then we will explore the possibility of using a hybrid (gas and firewood) model and finally we will find out the qualities of our new home professional-grade pizza ovens.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> The wood-fired oven is the Rolls-Royce of ovens. It is a pretty ancient cooking tool that works simply and effectively<\/strong>. Its main features are:<\/p>\n Let us have a look at them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> The wood-fired oven bakes food with the help of all three modes of heat transfer, namely:<\/p>\n The heat is generated by the fire and thanks to the shape of the dome and the refractory materials with which the oven is built,<\/strong> can reach as high a temperature as 1 000 \u00b0C <\/strong>and maintain it over time. The best temperature for cooking through pizza in a wood-burning oven is around 450-500 \u00b0C.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> The most special feature of the wood-fired oven is that, well, it uses a fuel that imparts a unique flavour to your dishes. <\/strong>You can choose various types of firewood<\/strong> based on the aroma they give off and their calorific value<\/strong>, that is the heat amount per kilogram of fuel.<\/strong><\/p>\n Oak and beech woods have more ounce for the bounce, the olive one is more fragrant but more expensive and citrus woods are great for smoking fish.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Cooking with a wood-burning oven is a throwback to a different time<\/strong>, when families gathered to taste granny\u2019s recipes and enjoy the company of dear ones.<\/p>\n The wood-fired oven has been for centuries the basic tool for baking bread, a staple food of the human diet. Following the post-war economic boom and the social changes that have occurred ever since, gas-fired and electric ovens got the upper hand as they were easier to install and to use.<\/p>\n Today, using a wood-burning oven means to take cooking craft to its roots<\/strong> and to learn to control fire as it once was.<\/p>\n The main benefits of a wood-burning oven are enhanced by cooking with fire, a technique that requires some practice and experience. In fact, you need to learn how to light and manage the fire<\/strong> and to know your oven inside out to make the most of it.<\/p>\n Let us see now how to cook pizza step-by-step in a traditional wood-burning oven:<\/strong><\/p>\n If you bake pizza, pay attention to the temperature. When cooking a pizza, the oven floor cools down in the very spot it is baked<\/strong>; so, if we keep on baking pizzas in the same area, we could end up having a pizza cooked on the top and undercooked on the bottom. In this case, move the pie to another part of the floor.<\/p>\n We suggest using the whole floor,<\/strong> gradually putting pizzas in the unused areas. Knowing how your oven works, you can understand which areas of the floor cook best. <\/strong>The bottom of a pizza<\/strong> is cooked by conduction and therefore it depends on the floor temperature while the top is baked by convection and radiation.<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want to make a perfect roast, just add some wood and rotate the roasting pan halfway through cooking. <\/strong>If you are looking for inspiration that makes your mouth water, read the article in our blog on how to make four delicious recipes with the wood-fired oven.<\/u><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> As we saw previously, cooking with a wood-fired oven is surely fascinating<\/strong> and conjures up images of conviviality but equally requires a bit of a learning curve. In fact, traditional wood burning ovens take forever to reach the cooking temperature<\/strong> for pizzas as you need to burn wood for 2\/3 hours to hit 450-500 \u00b0C.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why Alfa has specialised for 10 years now in manufacturing innovative wood-fired ovens that use the Forninox technology.<\/strong> In short, this innovation makes it possible to build wood-burning ovens with a sturdy refractory base and covering the vault with many layers of stainless steel.<\/strong><\/p>\n This solution has two major benefits:<\/p>\n At bottom, Alfa stainless-steel ovens<\/u><\/a><\/b> give you the best of both worlds: they enable you to cook with wood but in no time and are perfectly suitable for any kind of indoor and outdoor installation.<\/p>\n A compromise solution might be the hybrid oven<\/strong> used as a backup for the kitchen one to experience first-hand the way dual-fuel appliances work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> The gas-burning pizza oven is very popular<\/strong> both in homes and in the entirety of the hospitality industry because it is cheaper and far easier to operate<\/strong> than its wood-burning counterpart. You can set the temperature, put the pizza in and check it as it cooks. It can hit 400\u00b0 C and cleaning it is a no-brainer.<\/p>\n Take a look at our website to see how the gas-burning oven stacks up against the wood-burning one.<\/u><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Home gas ovens work quite simply. The heat<\/strong> is generated by a burner and it is more evenly distributed.<\/strong> The burner is located under the cooking chamber, a metal box that heats up and bakes food by radiation<\/strong>. With a baking pan you can cook your dishes using conduction.<\/strong><\/p>\n There are some types of gas-burning pizza ovens with refractory floor <\/strong>that mimic the cooking conditions of traditional wood-fired ones as much as possible.<\/p>\n Alfa has long been designing and developing home professional-grade pizza ovens <\/strong>and two new products have been recently added to our range:<\/p>\n ONE<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> STONE OVEN<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> BRIO<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> DOLCE VITA<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> The product line also includes the gas-fired One <\/u><\/a><\/b>and the Dolce Vita <\/u><\/a><\/b>that bakes up to 4 pizzas simultaneously.<\/p>\n The electric oven is by far the most popular oven in our homes. It is easy to install, to use and to clean as well,<\/strong> and in recent years many models have been developed to meet the growing energy efficiency standards. As a result, today the market provides a wide array of products that consume much less than the old electric ovens because, quite frankly, this type of appliance was very expensive to run.<\/p>\n In the electric oven, the heat is transferred through the heating elements located above and below the cooking chamber<\/strong>, that is pretty much the same to that of the gas-fired oven. The heat is evenly distributed and you can select different cooking programmes <\/strong>by setting the fan, the grill, the steam and the like. The state-of-the-art models can store recipes and some of them allow you to control many functions through your smartphone.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Innovative wood-burning ovens<\/h3>\n
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The features of the gas-fired pizza oven<\/h2>\n
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The features of the electric oven<\/h2>\n