First off, wood-burning brick ovens can reach a higher cooking temperature compared to a conventional oven. Considering that wood-burning brick oven are made out of brick walls, the heat is spread and contained within and can reach anywhere between and degrees Fahrenheit. As for the pizza itself, wood-burning brick ovens create a better texture and unique flavor for the pizza that cannot be easily replicated with a home oven.
With its high temperature, pizzas baked in a wood-burning brick oven have a crispier crust with a soft and chewy inside. Also, brick oven baked pizzas have a unique smoky flavor as well as a crispier topping without sacrificing the consistency of the crust.
However, it is also important to keep in mind that certain pizza dishes are not suitable for brick ovens for the same reasons, such as the deep dish Chicago style pizza as the high heat would burn the exterior without cooking the insides enough. People often say that pizzas baked in wood-burning brick ovens are superior to pizzas baked in conventional kitchen ovens.
While this may be considered as a simple matter of opinion, do you know that there is a way to make your home oven cook pizza like a wood-burning brick oven?
The answer lies with a simple tool called pizza stone. A pizza stone is a portable cooking surface that is designed for cooking pizzas while mimicking the effects of a brick oven.
Commonly made with ceramic, stone, or clay, the pizza stone has a porous nature that allows it to absorb moisture from the pizza, which results in a crispier crust. Conventional home kitchens are not exactly made to bake pizzas on their own as they lack the capacity to produce raise heat at a temperature best suited to produce quality homemade pizza.
And this is where pizza stones come into action. As some would say, a hot pizza stone is the key to producing that crispy pizza crust we all crave for. Its capability to pass on heat effectively and efficiently recreates cooking conditions found in wood-burning brick ovens and results in faster cooking time and a better tasting crust. But exactly how long to heat pizza stone? This part comes a bit tricky as it is also important not to use too much heat to keep your pizza stone from cracking.
Before using it for the first time, remove all the labels from the product, if necessary using a mild detergent, then clean carefully. Never use your Pizza Stone directly on a source of heat gas, electric etc. You can, however, use it on the barbeque grill, which diffuses heat evenly all over the surface of the dish. For best results, make sure you close the barbeque lid during cooking. When you take it out of the oven, it will be extremely hot so do not place it in direct contact with anything cold, such as cold water or a cold surface.
Place it on a neutral surface, such as a wooden board or cloth. If, when cleaning it, you find that some residue will not come off, soak it in hot water and white vinegar before placing in the dishwasher.
So what happens if you try to shortcut the process and preheat for less time? To find out, we preheated four baking stones in four separate degree ovens for 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and 1 hour, respectively. Once the stones were preheated, we baked pizzas for exactly 10 minutes on each stone and examined their undersides for browning and crisping.
The results?
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