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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…
