On Saturday I went on a course to learn how to use our rather elderly pizza oven properly. We have had it for 18 years now so, although I had been doing pizzas in it, I was sure I could do more and better!
Mike, who is the pizzaiolo of Lucca Enoteca in Manningtree, is a third generation Italian chef and turns out something like 800 pizzas a week from his woodfired oven certainly helped me look at things differently.
Rather than make this an extra long post, I will post how to make and shape dough another time as well as giving some ideas for different combos of toppings and how to make calzones. I must, however, mention Nutella pizza Just cook a plain base and spread with Nutella once out of the oven I found today the Nutella had mysteriously disappeared so I used praline paste and chocolate drops instead Delicious with an espresso to sip on
The photos are from today, Sunday, when I put what I had learnt to the test I think I got the best results ever and am no longer worried about putting the pizza directly on the oven floor as I know how to control the ash Here are the top ten tips I learnt Continue reading