Get Out of Your Pizza Oven ‘Dough Doldrums’!

Ready to take your outdoor pizza cookery to the next level and frustrated by the limitations of your existing oven?  

Rather than just pushing dough into your portable oven and sitting there awaiting the result, do you want room to manoeuvre it?  Do you want to act like a real pizza chef, checking the bottom of your pizza is blistering nicely and brandishing real pizza oven tools?  Do you secretly wish to master the art of cooking with a real wood fire and flame?  

Quite simply, are you bored with the same-old, same-old outdoor pizza cooking routine?

Wood-fired oven specialist, Anglo-Italian business, Orchard Ovens, says many Brits are in the the dough doldrums, needing to take the next step up from a portable or starter oven. They need some wind beneath their sails when it comes to outdoor cookery the wood-fired way.  

Orchard Ovens’s Valoriani ovens, crafted by artisans and experts in refractory clay amidst the rolling hillsides of Tuscany, are truly the real deal.  And that’s not just the opinion of top UK chefs, Oscar winners and Cotswold and Miami-dwelling A-listers but also of Italians who have grown up with the art of wood-fired cookery all their lives.

Valoriani wood-fired ovens sell worldwide, and are acclaimed in every country, because they are constructed of the right refractory materials and to an optimal design for wood-fired cookery. There’s nothing more frustrating than having an outdoor oven that won’t heat up, which has appalling heat retention, or which provides little or no insulation - just a red-hot shell. It’s both difficult and dangerous to turn out something that can impress on the plate.  

And note the terminology.  Valoriani ovens are so much more than ‘pizza ovens’, although they will, of course, turn out any gourmet-style pizza you desire, once you’ve got to grips with your dough recipe and fire management.

But they can do so much more, busting the boredom by taking you on a journey that could cover curries, stews, roasted fish, meat or vegetable dishes, pies and pastries, biscuits, cakes and crumbles, risotto, pasta dishes, jacket potatoes, shellfish delights, steaks and other grilled foods.  You can even cook chips, if you use the oven mouth, and can conjure up virtually anything you desire outdoors, altering your menu to suit the seasons. And this includes bread – of whatever type and style most pleases.  

Thanks to the ovens’ superb heat retention, there’s also the option of cooking one day and using the oven the next morning, to cook your English breakfast using just residual heat.  In the meantime, you could have slow-cooked a dish overnight and take that out just as the bacon and eggs go in.

The world is your oyster with an Orchard Ovens-supplied Valoriani oven, which has a lifespan of 15-20 years or more in most cases, if not abused.  No other wood-fired ovens can say the same, with many lasting one summer at best.  And, should you want to cop out and have a gas-fired version, that’s a possibility too.

So get out of the dough doldrums, put some energy into your entertaining and inject fun into family time, whilst learning a new skill along the way.  If it’s time to step up from that limiting pizza-only oven, the answer is at hand.  Find out more at www.orchardovens.co.uk or call 07743 847647.                                                                                                          

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Editors notes

Orchard Ovens is the domestic and commercial pizza oven supplier in the UK of Valoriani, based in Reggello, Tuscany - the manufacturer of Italy's hugely respected Valoriani pizza ovens, known as the Maserati of pizza ovens and the kings of clay. These ovens are made from superb refractory clay - cotto clay - found in the family's quarry and unique, thanks to having just the right alumina. This allows Valoriani ovens to heat up quickly and retain heat superbly, bring huge advantages to homeowners, as well as restaurant owners, hotels, pubs, mobile caterers, pizzerias, takeaways and more.

Orchard Ovens supplies some of Britain's best-known restaurants and chefs, whilst it is also a specialist creator of outdoor kitchens and wood-fired oven builds for the rich and famous, as well as everyday homeowners wishing to add value to their home and enjoy an outdoor lifestyle to the full.