| The world's very best pizza is made in wood-fired, | | | | degrees F. If you have something that retains heat well |
| open flame, brick pizza ovens. These ovens get much | | | | (like a clay pizza stone) in the open flame you can get |
| hotter than your home stove ever will, and hotter than | | | | a cooking surface one or two hundred degrees hotter |
| the regular steel pizza ovens you see in most pizza | | | | than that. |
| shops. Not many restaurants have these special | | | | The manufacturer is not recommending it but I think the |
| open-flame ovens but if you are eating out and have a | | | | way to go is to level four or five inches of charcoal |
| pizza that is so good it knocks your socks off be sure | | | | and place the oven on top when the cauldron is |
| to ask the cook about his oven. | | | | glowing bright red. You do not need a top enclosure |
| If not many restaurants have these ovens then you | | | | like a regular oven because the pizza will cook from |
| can be sure that the number of homes that can cook | | | | the bottom, through the crust, just like it does in a brick |
| a pizza the right way can probably be counted on | | | | pizza oven. |
| your hand. Well, that has all changed. A company | | | | Super high cooking heat is exactly what you need to |
| called Villaware has come out with something it calls | | | | emulate a brick oven pizza. The pizza stone will |
| the PizzaGrill BBQ Pizza Maker. | | | | provide the heat to crisp the crust, probably in less |
| The Pizza Maker consists of a metal enclosure, a clay | | | | than 10 minutes, and the heat from the coals or the |
| pizza stone, and a thermometer. The pizza maker is | | | | flame will melt the cheese and cook the toppings. |
| on short legs so the whole device, with your soon | | | | The final result is going to be the best pizza you may |
| to-die-for pizza, can be placed on the grate of a gas | | | | have ever eaten. Be sure to prepare two or three |
| or charcoal grill. | | | | different kinds of pizza, in addition to that big sausage |
| Outdoor grills, whether fired by charcoal or gas, can | | | | pizza, in advance because you want to take |
| achieve some significantly high temperatures. You | | | | advantage of the heat while you can. And do not be |
| would be lucky if your kitchen oven could hold 500 | | | | surprised when the kids in the neighborhood start |
| degrees F. These babies can get to 600 or 700 | | | | calling you Chef Dominoe. |