How do wood fired ovens work

Natural Convection. Conducting Heat. Using Coals. Retained Heat Baking. Wood-fired ovens use retained heat, a live fire and hot coals to create different cooking environments, including: — Fire-in-the-oven — Coals-in-the-oven — Retained heat We will describe the mechanics of how your oven works in this section, and then describe the different wood-fired cooking styles in the following section.

Fire-in-the-oven Cooking When cooking with a live fire, your Forno Bravo oven cooks simultaneously in three ways, as shown in the following three graphics: — Reflected heat — Convection — Conductive heat With reflective heat, flame from a live fire is bounced off the dome onto your food. Retained Heat Cooking For baking bread and other dishes at temperatures where you would normally cook in a conventional oven, your oven will cook for hours with retained heat. Have any questions?

Email Address. There is no text book to show you this……. Authentic Ovens have a long even hover temperature, which makes us stand out from the rest. An even heat throughout from a solid one piece hearth and fire brick dome. Each internal brick in the oven is adhered to each other making it one item so the heat is transferred evenly. To achieve this we use compressed high alumina fire bricks.

Authentic Oven has invested large amounts of time and money on research to develop the correct hover temperature, by adjusting the levels of density to make long hover and adjusting the alumina content and thickness of each brick to adjust how quickly the heat is transferred. No kit-set product will achieve heat retention like this.

Kit-set and cast ovens cannot achieve this as they do not have the quality and detail in their design. Authentic Ovens internal dome utilizes custom compressed fire bricks to achieve this effective formula. We are on a mission to be the world leaders in brick oven manufacturing and design by looks and performance. Different designs of wood ovens work better for different types of cooking so consider the type of cooking you would like to do.

In essence the more density in the internal structure of the oven the more versatile it will be but the initial heating will take longer.

Authentic Oven will design and manufacture residential or commercial ovens to suit your needs to perfection. We believe New Zealand made quality with high performance products is the right way to go.

Our ovens hold heat like no other product on the market. Many ovens are poured into molds with products with no alumina and no heat retaining properties. The insulation is so effective that while internal temperatures can reach deg C, the outside cladding only reaches deg c over several hours on continuous heating.

Authentic wood fired ovens are made from the best products available. Absolutely no compromise in quality is our objective with over happy customers worldwide to date. The Authentic Oven traditional external front flue system has been designed to work indoors and out. It also creates an incredibly balanced cooking chamber without using a fan.

The task of heating an oven is a simple matter of burning wood down to coals and moving them around the oven using a three-step process. With a little practice this technique will bring an oven up to temperature quickly and evenly. Once hot, everything inside the oven is determined by the temperature of the floor and the size of the flame. Simply add one or two pieces of wood when needed to maintain the cooking environment called for in your recipe. You will also find that your senses really come into play with open hearth cooking and it is easy to get everyone involved.

Our new Mugnaini x provides a generous five-foot round cooking floor; perfect for your high production kitchen. Play the video above to be escorted Once the Dome and Floor are Saturated with Heat, You Regulate the Oven with the Size of the Flame The task of heating an oven is a simple matter of burning wood down to coals and moving them around the oven using a three-step process.