How to Cook Up a Flame Fired Oven Pizza

how to

Feb 6

Slice, Slice, Baby.

Pizza is life. Prove us wrong. But bad pizza is not good (or tolerable). There are the old ways of cooking a pizza that called for pre-made crust, toss in the oven, and wait for the cheese to melt sort of approach. Or there is the new way to fire up an outdoor pizza oven and have some of the most flavorful pizza on the block. The time is now to fire up the pizza oven and get some good ole’ flame fired pizza goodness.

INGREDIENTS:

-Pizza dough ball
-Flour
-Shredded Mozzarella cheese
-Tomato sauce
- Additional toppings

INSTRUCTIONS:

Step 1: Step one kicks off with getting the tools ready for cooking. Roller, Dough Sheet, Pizza Peel, and Pizza Oven (we use an Ooni for this/our how2)
Step 2: Fire up the outdoor Pizza Oven- get it piping hot to max heat per oven guidelines
Step 3: While oven is heating up, roll out room temperature pizza dough ball into a 12 inch circle. Use plenty of flour on the surface to avoid sticking
Step 4: Take out your pizza peel and get a good layer of flour on the peel itself
Step 5: Place dough onto peel and shift peel around in hand to confirm the rolled dough slides freely on the peel
Step 6: Add thin layer of sauce, cheese, and other toppings you desire
Step 7: Slide pizza into outdoor pizza oven and rotate the pizza with the peel every 15 seconds. A quarter turn is plenty. Add flour to peel as needed to freely move the pizza around.
Step 8: After a minute to 1.5 minutes of rotating the pizza, remove pizza from oven. Slice up and enjoy!

duuude TIP:

If the pizza toppings are too thick it can hinder proper cooking time. Avoid a lot of cheese as the liquid evaporation can make the dough soggy. Keep any eye on the pizza while cooking because a few seconds can burn the dough.