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 Gwyneth Paltrow and install an indoor Valoriani wood-fired pizza oven.

Valoriani UK’s Fornino ‘Cucina’ is just that and a baby oven that has taken the al fresco dining sector by storm since 2014.  It’s an oven made by the Italian maestros of pizza ovens – Tuscan-based family firm, Valoriani – who have been mastering and perfecting clay products since 1890.

The Cucina is formed from Valoriani’s world-beating cotto clay – containing exactly the right amount of alumina for the firing of refractory brick.  It heats up amazingly quickly – up to temperature within 30 minutes - and retains heat phenomenally, making it fuel-efficient and giving the owner every ounce of value from their wood fuel … unless they opt for a gas-fired model, which is also possible.

Recognising the need for an indoor pizza oven to blend in with the rest of the kitchen décor – or stand out in total contrast to it – the Valoriani Cucina comes in red, cream or black as standard, but can also come in any other colour you desire, as a bespoke coloured oven. Furthermore, it is also now available with a mosaic tile finish of your choice, if that is the aesthetic you want to incorporate. Whether you have a monochrome colour scheme, strip-backed Shaker or a traditional rustic English country vibe going on, Valoriani can colour their indoor oven to suit.

The oven’s dome and floor are both a sturdy 3cm thick and there is high-quality upper and lower insulation, to assist heat retention and make the oven safer within the culinary environment.  It comes with a steel door, a three-piece tool accessory pack and a one-hour training video.

The Cucina allows its owners to deliver the authenticity of wood-fired Mediterranean cookery, whether they live in N1 or NE47.  Cooking with a real flame in a home kitchen is taking kitchen island living up a notch, providing an even greater focal point in the room rapidly becoming the hub of any home.  

But do not despair if you only want to cook on gas.  Valoriani’s oven developers have found ways of cooking with gas that even wow the most ardent supporters of pizza tradition, delivering a taste that can be just as appealing as a wood-fired dish and fooling diners into thinking it’s been cooked by a real flame.

The Valoriani Cucina can cook a 28/30cm pizza in a couple of minutes (with a gas version cooking two at once).  It can rustle up not just pizza but a wide variety of dishes, from seabass to lamb casserole and from roast vegetables and jacket potatoes to bread and butter pudding.  If you use an optional accessory - a Tuscan Grill - you can also turn the oven into a barbecue, cooking the sausages, steaks and kebabs that you love.in a barbecued culinary style, regardless of whether you own a wood or gas oven.

The Cucina can be installed in the tightest of kitchens and operates in a carbon-neutral way, when using ready-to-burn, suitable wood.  It has full DEFRA certification, making it legal to operate, from an emissions point of view, in Smoke Control Zones found in London and many other towns and cities.

For more information about the Cucina 60 and other Valoriani  indoor and garden ovens, as well as restaurant and catering sector wood ovens, head to http://valorianiuk.com, 01772 250000 or email info@valorianiuk.com           

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Editors notes

Valoriani UK is the UK arm of Valoriani, based in Reggello, Tuscany - the manufacturer of Italy's hugely respected Valoriani pizza ovens, known as the Rolls Royce 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. Consequently, Valoriani's home garden ovens (built-in and mobile) and kitchen ovens, and its range of restaurant and mobile/street-food ovens are best in class and the choice of leading chefs and celebrities.