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Did a Valoriani Oven Ignite Dua Lipa’s Romance?
The UK supplier of what is probably the world’s most trusted pizza oven brand, Valoriani, is wondering whether one of its ovens was responsible for fanning the flames of celebrity romance and marriage. Recent reports about the marriage of singing artist, Dua Lipa, to actor Callum Turner, suggest…
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Steak and Chips – a Wood-fired Oven Treat for Any England World Cup Match
The nation watches with baited breath for England football games, with all hungry for more 1966-style success. But what could feed the hunger of all those footie fan friends who gather around your wood-fired oven from Valoriani? What English fare could you serve up, to really fit the bill? Well…
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Gumbo – The Perfect One-Pot Pizza Oven Dish for USA’s World Cup Footie Games
“Jambalaya, crawfish pie, filé gumbo”, sang The Carpenters and there’s not much more traditionally American than the southern delight that is filé gumbo. This stew-type soup, originating in Louisiana, brings together three main cuisines – European, Native American and West African, with…
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Paella – Your Wood-fired Oven’s Spanish World Cup Delight
Spain are always one of the better-performing countries in football tournaments and paella is also a real crowd-pleaser that will soon acquire many fans when cooked in your wood-fired oven. That’s because your wood-fired oven from Valoriani can do wondrous things to paella. It can not only…
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Empanadas – an Argentinian Wood-fired Oven World Cup Dish
Argentina hold the FIFA Number 1 ranking for teams in the 2026 World Cup and Orchard Ovens is presenting you with a top-rated Argentinian dish to cook in your wood-fired oven. Empanadas are a hugely popular starter dish in Argentina, often eaten alongside a glass of red wine, typically a cheeky…
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Perfect Storm Creates Major Pizza Oven Opportunity
Q1 2026 has created a major opportunity for eateries and restaurants wanting to capitalise on the popularity of pizza, with this adding to the existing potential of creating dining experiences based around the World Cup. This is the view of the man who first introduced pizza ovens to the UK market…
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Who Made the First Pizza Oven?
If you are a pizza aficionado, love wood-fired gourmet pizza and fancy having an oven either at home or in your eatery, asking yourself who made the first pizza oven can be a very positive move. Of course, wood-fired pizza ovens are as old as the hills. They existed, as wood-burning hearths, back…
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Why Are Valoriani Ovens Not Included in Media Reviews?
Why are your Valoriani ovens not featured in media reviews of pizza ovens? This is a question we are often asked. It’s also something that you really ought to ponder if you are using media reviews of pizza ovens in the UK as the basis of a purchase decision. Quite simply, many of those…
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Specialist Pizza Oven Supplier At Heart of The River Café’s 2026 Refurbishment
Pizza oven pioneer, Orchard Ovens, has gained reaffirmation that top eateries across the UK regard its commercial wood ovens as best in class, having just fitted out London’s Michelin-starred venue, The River Café, with its second oven. The commercial ‘pizza’ oven team at Orchard Ovens have…
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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…
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What Re (pizza) Business Say About Our Commercial Pizza Ovens
The Orchard Ovens commercial pizza oven team has had a fantastic start to 2026, with much of this down to what we call re(pizza) business. This is where we have a customer who has been so wowed by their first Valoriani commercial pizza oven that they have decided, when it’s time for a change of…
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Lamb Dish Inspiration for Your Easter Pizza Oven Entertaining
Easter is just around the corner and that means a big focus on the traditional meat treat of lamb. But how can you cook lamb in your wood-fired oven, to conjure up the tastes of Italy and the Mediterranean in your own back garden? Whether you buy a ready-to-go place-in-situ or wheeled wood-fired…
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How Your Wood Oven Cook Cope with Italy’s 20 Sunday Dishes
Keeping an eye on Italian culinary mentions on social media, as we do, our wood fired oven specialists could not help spotting a VisitItaly.eu graphic that featured Italian Sunday dishes by region. This meant that were 20 dishes in total, ranging from the Sunday delight served in Val d’Aosta, to…
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Why Our Wood-fired Ovens are Like Artisan Bread
Artisan bread has become über-popular in recent years. So, having an artisan product as we do in the shape of our wood-fired ovens (great for cooking artisan breads, incidentally), we decided to compare artisan bread with our artisan ovens and see if we share anything in common. Read on to…
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Use Your Wood-fired Oven Recipes to Wow and Woo
The month of love is with us, with Valentine’s Day now here. Nothing says “I love you” more than cooking from the heart for the person you cherish and doing that in a wood-fired oven can be tackled at any time of year. A Valoriani wood-fired oven is a superbly crafted ‘pizza’ or outdoor…
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Get Fired Up for a Wood-fired Oven Self-build Project
Looking for an early springtime DIY project to enhance your outdoor living and year-round entertaining? Your answer lies in building a wood-fired oven that will provide you with an authentic Tuscan wood-fired pizza oven of which any Italian family would be proud. Various DIY pizza oven kits are…
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The Wood-fired Oven at the Heart of 2026’s All-year-round Outdoor Living Trend
All-year-round outdoor living is the big trend for 2026, as Brits embrace the concept of relishing every season in their garden, whether that be through their planting choices, the creation of covered dining spaces or furnishing themselves with outdoor cooking facilities. Gone is the idea that…
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7 New Year’s Resolutions for Pizzerias and Pizza-serving Restaurants
Orchard Ovens, the supplier of world-renowned Valoriani commercial pizza ovens, has seven suggestions of New Year’s resolutions that pizzerias and pizza-serving restaurants should adopt in 2026. Its list of New Year’s resolutions for those wanting to offer top-quality wood-fired pizza to…
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Why Wood-fired Pizza Ovens Should Rule Commercial Kitchen Refurbishment Plans
Thinking of carrying out a commercial kitchen refurbishment this winter? If so, perhaps pizza is a menu choice for which you wish to cater? After all, who doesn’t want those high profit margins. And, what’s not to like about a dish that’s ever-popular and which will minimise food…
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Cool New Valoriani Pizza Oven Hangin’ Tough at Snowdonia Pizzeria
A Snowdonia pizzeria, serving around 150 pizzas a day on average, knew the third wood-fired oven in which it invested had to be one that could cope with the level of demand. A rise in employee levels from 8 to 37, in just 8 years, signalled the increase in covers that made it essential to source the…
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Orchard Ovens Launches ‘Spot V for Valoriani’ Contest
Orchard Ovens, suppliers of Tuscan pizza ovens manufactured in an artisan fashion by renowned family firm, Valoriani, has launched a ‘Spot V for Valoriani’ contest for pizza-loving diners in the UK. The contest invites diners to take good note of the wood-fired oven in the pizzerias and…
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Your Pizza Party Host And Oven Supplier
When most people think about buying a wood-fired oven, they imagine the delicious meals and long summer evenings to which it may pave a pathway. But what if the journey doesn’t stop with just having an oven installed? What if it includes expert guidance, personal support, and even having your…
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Cooking Lasagna and Baked Pastas in Your Wood-fired Oven
July 29 saw the annual foodie celebration of National Lasagna Day taking place across the world, but how many wood-fired oven owners thought of cooking up a bubbling lasagna in their pizza oven? How many pizza oven owners are even capable of doing that in their oven? The answer is probably…
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Make This An Unforgettable Pizza Oven Summer
The summer holidays are here and, for families across the UK, that means weeks of school-free days, sunny adventures and plenty of time to fill. While the excitement is high, many parents will be asking themselves the same question: how do we keep the kids happy, occupied, and off their screens? If…
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Orchard Ovens Excited by Dark Kitchen Pizza Oven Potential
Wood-fired pizza oven specialist, Orchard Ovens, is detecting an exciting new market for its authentic Italian Valoriani pizza ovens, as the dark kitchen concept begins to gain a real foothold in the UK market. Although Orchard Ovens Commercial fitted out its first dark kitchens around 8 years ago…
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Slower Economy and Pizza Oven Replacements Boost Valoriani Sales
A drive towards higher-margin dishes and hard lessons learned with other pizza ovens are together providing commercial pizza oven supplier, Orchard Ovens, with a notable uplift in demand for its Valoriani commercial pizza ovens. This is despite a trickier eating-out scene. Restaurants, takeaways…
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How Proper Pizza Ovens Trump BBQs at Outdoor Parties
Orchard Ovens, the UK supplier of top-of-the-range Valoriani domestic and commercial pizza ovens, says Brits need to use experiences from this year’s BBQ Week (May 29 – June 4) and reflect on how to upgrade their al fresco lifestyle. Orchard Ovens points to the findings of a recent Avant Homes…
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Say “Italian Cheese” for Your Woodfired Outdoor Cookery
Cooking with an authentic, artisan-manufactured Valoriani wood-fired pizza oven is a way to connect with a generations-old culinary tradition in the Italian region of Tuscany (Toscana). But so too is using some of the cheeses that have made Italian cuisine so celebrated. This International…
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North Yorkshire Homeowner Praises Our New Fornino 50 Pizza Oven
Orchard Ovens’ customer, Peter Lowman, has been using our new Fornino 50 wood-fired oven at home for around 10 months now, having instantly fallen in love with it when it made its appearance at the Lancashire Show in July 2024. When we caught up with him to find out what he thought of it, there…
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The Similarities Between the World of F1 and Valoriani Wood-fired Pizza Ovens
If you think about some of the most iconic things to come out of Italy, Ferrari cars would definitely be up there. So, as we head towards the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, Orchard Ovens has been comparing a grand prix car with its top-of-the-range Valoriani pizza ovens, which may not have a…
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NICs and Energy Costs Lead to More Valoriani Commercial Pizza Oven Enquiries
The core issues affecting the hospitality sector in the UK in spring 2025, whether that is a restaurant, pizzeria or hotel, are keeping the Orchard Ovens’ team busy with enquiries, as our pizza ovens are presenting more than one solution for beleaguered caterers. The hospitality sector has had to…
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Easter Feasting with a Valoriani Wood-Fired Pizza Oven
A Valoriani wood-fired pizza oven doesn’t just exist so that you can rustle up perfect wood-fired gourmet pizzas at home - it’s also a versatile tool in which to cook a full Easter feast. This Easter, why not go beyond the usual, and use your Valoriani wood-fired pizza oven to prepare a menu…
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Getting Your Valoriani Wood-Fired Oven Ready for Spring
As spring really starts to blossom, it’s time to bring your wood-fired oven out of hibernation. After months of disuse, your oven may needs a little check-up, before it’s ready to fire up again. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to get your wood-fired pizza oven back into action for a season…
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Preston Pizza Oven Pioneer Launches New Oven
An outdoor garden oven standing apart from any other pizza oven on the market, and with a fantastic introductory price-point, is the brand-new offering from wood-fired pizza oven pioneer, Orchard Ovens, this summer. The Preston-based business, which was the first to introduce wood-fired pizza…
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A Pizza Oven Kit Designed to Deliver a Better Outdoor Life
Could you and should you make springtime 2025 the one in which you build your own garden pizza oven? This is the burning question for households bored with barbecues, seeking a new project, wanting to enhance their outdoor living space and looking for ways to bond the family. Luckily, Orchard…
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Choosing Your Powerful Wood, Gas or Electric Commercial Pizza Oven
Pizzerias and pizza-serving restaurants in urban centres, which want the ease of cooking superb pizza without a real flame, but don’t wish to miss out on the benefits of a renowned Valoriani commercial pizza oven, have two other choices. Valoriani has both gas and electric commercial pizza…
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Bond Your Family With the Help of a Wood-fired Pizza Oven
Ever considered having a pizza oven in your back garden? If so, how much have you focused purely on the pizza and considered whether that’s an upgrade on a barbecue? Have you, at all, contemplated some of the less obvious benefits of having a pizza oven, even if they are the ones that every…
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Focus on the Oven Floor for Top Quality Wood-fired Gourmet Pizza
If restaurants want to serve their customers the best-quality pizza, they need to take to the floor and quick-step their way to better customer satisfaction rates. This is the view of commercial woodfired, gas-fired and electric pizza oven supplier, Orchard Ovens, which offers authentic Tuscan…
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Rescue Your 2025 Family Budget Through At-home Gourmet Pizza Nights
Are you sitting at home on this National Pizza Day (February 9) wondering what strain continued family pizza nights out might put on your household budget? Families across the UK are feeling the same, thanks to their own pressures, including higher mortgage payments, plus hiked menu prices, as…
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At-home Pizza Nights Can Rescue Family Budgets in 2025
A leading UK pizza pioneer believes UK families need to approach this year’s National Pizza Day on February 9 with a new mindset, really doing the sums and working out how best to slice up their household budget in the year ahead. With extra cost pressures, such as increased mortgages, household…
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Save our Pizzeria! Commercial Wood-fired Oven Rescues Soar
This is the message which Orchard Ovens has been receiving from many pizzerias and restaurants offering a woodfired pizza menu this year: ... .- ...- . / --- ..- .-. / .--. .. --.. --.. . .-. .. .- If you are not au fait with Morse Code, the message actually spells out Save Our Pizzeria. This has…
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Slow Food From Your Wood-fired Oven
Orchard Ovens’ domestic wood-fired oven owners continue to delight us with their enthusiasm and inventiveness as home cooks. Their stories about their lifestyle with a wood-fired oven and the brilliant entertaining opportunities that it provides, fill us with joy. But as we head towards…
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New Harrogate Pizzeria - and Its Oven - Wow Reviewers
A specialist pizzeria in Harrogate, which opened its doors in spring 2024 with a Valoriani Igloo woodfired restaurant pizza oven at its heart, is already wowing local diners with the quality of its delicious Neapolitan pizzas. Stefano’s Italian Pizzeria is the new business baby of Stefano…
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The Best Wood-fired Pizza in Rome?
Entering bustling, multi-platformed Termini railway station in the busy heart of Rome, it’s easy to become side-tracked by a plethora of shops, temptingly selling everything from books to designer football gear. It’s similarly tempting to become over pre-occupied by the helpful warnings relating…
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The Woodfired Pizza Ovens Not Just for Summer
Last November 5, homeowners and restaurants that recognised that bangers and burgers are now a little old-hat for Bonfire Night, were rustling up something far more adventurous … and in amazing, theatre-creating woodfired pizza ovens. Al fresco dining is not just for summer afternoons, as many…
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Revolving Gas Pizza Oven Eases Budget’s Pressure on Restaurant Budgets
Restaurants, pubs and other eateries considering early 2025 refurbishments may have been considering a wood-fired pizza oven as a new money spinner and menu asset. But, since the Autumn 2024 ‘Rachel Reeves’ budget, perhaps the requirement to keep a watchful eye on wages and staffing levels is…
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Get Easter 2025 Ready with a DIY Pizza Oven Project
Easter falls on April 20, 2025, potentially providing those who love a bit of outdoor DIY with a couple of months, once the worst of the winter weather passes, in which to get stuck in to a new project. If you also have no plans to get away in the spring, perhaps it’s the perfect time to use…
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A Neapolitan Wood-fired Margherita Pizza Fit for a Queen: the story of pizza
On National Pizza Day on February 9, pizzerias across the UK will be serving up, as usual, hundreds of gourmet Margherita woodfired pizzas. But how many of them will know the story behind the Margherita pizza’s invention? That happened back in June 1889 and all because of the arrival of Queen…
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Wood Fired Ovens for ‘Real Neapolitan Pizza’ Accreditation
Serving Real Neapolitan Pizza has become one way to differentiate a pizzeria, mobile pizza catering operation or pizza takeaway business, in what has become a more congested pizza market. As pizza eaters have become more savvy, they have acquired a preference for the lighter, less ‘bready…
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The Perfect Six Nations Commercial Woodfired Pizza Oven Strategy
Ready for the 2025 Six Nations? Sporting events like this, for which groups of friends gather and share in the highs and the lows, are perfect for pubs and bars wanting to get the tills ringing. To do that, the combination of beer, wine and wood-fired pizza is a proven winner. Such occasions…
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Orchard Ovens Highlights New Pizza Oven Options for Dealers
Preston-based Orchard Ovens, supplier of Valoriani wood, gas-fired and electric ovens, is looking to expand its dealer network. With additions to the core range of Valoriani wood-fired commercial ovens in recent years, the business has more to offer to a dealer than ever, all backed with the…
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Orchard Ovens Launches 10-Year Service Proposition for Wood-fired Ovens
Wood-fired pizza oven specialist, Orchard Ovens, is launching a first in the UK pizza oven market, with a new 10-year service proposition for its wood-fired ovens. The company, which has been supplying the UK market for 20 years, has devised a service proposition called ‘Revisione’, from…
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Orchard Ovens Introduces New Valoriani Electric Oven Delivering Wood-fired Standard Pizza
Chefs who thought it impossible to deliver the authentic flavours of wood-fired pizza, whilst benefiting from the ease of electric cooking, have a new dream option available from Orchard Ovens Professional, set to shake up the pizza oven market. The Northern-based commercial and domestic pizza oven…
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Indoor Pizza Ovens Are Latest ‘Big Thing’ Following Dismal British Summer
Poor summer 2023 weather has seen a British company witness the next big thing in terms of lifestyle trends – Brits’ opting for a wood-fired pizza oven inside, in the kitchen, rather than outside in the garden. Orchard Ovens, based in Preston, has experienced a spike in enquiries about its…
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Turn to the Rotativo to Save Energy and Labour Costs and Achieve Great Margins
Pizzerias and restaurants wishing to optimise both energy and labour usage, and invest in an oven from a manufacturer which always focuses on longevity and top quality solutions, are urged to turn to the Valoriani ‘Rotativo’ pizza oven. The Rotativo is a superb and super-efficient rotating…
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The UK’s Smallest Outdoor Kitchen is Saving Brits £££s
Anglo-Italian family business, Orchard Ovens, is laying claim to offering the UK’s most affordable and compact outdoor kitchen - the answer for those wishing to entertain guests, by cooking a wide variety of dishes outside but not currently wanting to spend big. Furthermore, the team can get the…
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Love Island Leads to Outdoor Kitchen Enquiry Surge
Outdoor kitchen specialist, Orchard Ovens, is reporting a significant uplift in requests for outdoor kitchens, putting this down to the combination of Love Island 2022’s influence and a good month for the UK weather. The month of July saw enquiries for outdoor kitchens increase by…
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Make Sure 2022's No. 1 Garden Trend Adds Property Value
Orchard Ovens, the long-established wood-fired oven expert which was the very first oven manufacturer to bring the wood-fired cooking concept to the UK, has declared the outdoor, wood-fired garden oven the hottest 2022 trend in garden living. However, it warns that homeowners must do their homework…
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Amazing Black Friday Discount on Pizza Oven 'Maestros'
Foodies and lovers of outdoor living, can upgrade to something more plush than a barbecue or throwaway pizza oven this Black Friday, by grabbing a little piece of luxury in the curvaceous shape of an artisan-built, top-of-the-range Valoriani pizza oven from Orchard Ovens (www.orchardovens.co.uk).
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Wood-fired Pizza Will be the Mainstay of the Staycation Says Valoriani
Pubs, cafés, restaurants and other venues wanting to take advantage of a few more freedoms from April 12 and the biggest ‘staycation’ year yet for the UK, are being encouraged to follow the lead of others and turn to a Valoriani wood-fired oven as their mainstay of the staycation. Valoriani…
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Pizza ovens for those wanting to be like the Beckhams
A two-family business based in Preston and Italy, has worked to get through the coronavirus pandemic so that foodies in Britain can this summer master a new culinary skill unlike anything taught in the classroom – the art of woodfired cookery. Whilst the challenges are most definitely there this…
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Brits Keen to Master the Skill of Cooking With Wood
A UK-based pizza oven supplier is seeing an increase in enquiries for its wood-fired garden ovens, as stay-at-home Brits start to plan out their time and look to learn new skills, including the art of wood fired cookery. The team at Valoriani UK introduced the wood fired oven to the English market…
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Pizza Oven Supplier Welcomes Ban on Wet Wood
Valoriani UK, the UK-based arm of Tuscan pizza oven manufacturers and specialists, Valoriani, has come out in support of new legislation that will see a ban on ‘wet wood’ being introduced from 2021. The Preston headquartered family firm, which supplies pizza ovens to restaurant owners, hotels…
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Valoriani's Indoor Pizza Oven is 2020's Culinary Status Symbol
Breakfast bars are nice-to-have features but have been around for decades. Kitchen islands were once the goal for homeowners with aspirations but are now becoming the norm. If you want the ultimate status symbol in your kitchen, you need to take a leaf out of the book of Hollywood legends like…
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Design Your Own Wood-Fired Pizza Palace in 2020!
Valoriani, the Italian pizza oven brand that is the Rolls Royce of its sector - and the brand adopted by celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow, Gary Barlow and James Martin, to name but a few – is throwing down the gauntlet to UK homeowners desiring a garden oven in 2020, inviting them to try to out-do
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TV Exposure Boosts Preston Firm’s Pizza Oven Sales
Preston-based Valoriani UK, suppliers of Italy’s finest wood-fired and gas-fired pizza ovens, is enjoying the benefits of mass media TV exposure, with orders having spiked in the last six weeks due to various pieces of TV footage. A Valoriani Igloo 140 wood oven is currently featuring in a TV…
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Valoriani UK Launches New Rotating Wood/Gas Pizza Oven
Pizza oven specialist, Valoriani UK, has launched a new restaurant-grade oven into the UK market, and one that is a first for its Tuscan masters. To tick the boxes of chefs in a wide range of eateries, Valoriani have created the ‘Rotativo’ – the first rotating oven launched by the leading…
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TV Exposure Boosts Preston Firm’s Pizza Oven Sales
Preston-based Valoriani UK, suppliers of Italy’s finest wood-fired and gas-fired pizza ovens, is enjoying the benefits of mass media TV exposure, with orders having spiked in the last four weeks due to various pieces of TV footage. A Valoriani Igloo 140 wood oven is currently featuring in a TV…
