Forno Bravo imports and produces the finest Italian wood-fired pizza ovens for the house and garden, caterers, bakeries and restaurants. Our pizza ovens are crafted by hand using traditional methods and the highest-quality refractory materials, and then shipped to your home or business from our warehouse in Northern California.
Among our partners are Italy's largest (and finest) producer of pre-cast pizza ovens and outdoor fireplaces; a wonderful boutique producer of handcrafted "true" brick ovens; world-famous Antico Molino Caputo; Italy's leading producer of assembled commercial ovens for pizzerias; and Italy's largest producer of pizza peels and oven tools. If you are interested in the best pizza ovens, accessories and pizza ingredients the world has to offer, you need look no further. Still, take care. While they may look similar, all pizza ovens are not created equal. It's worth a minute to read why Forno Bravo provides the World's Finest Pizza Ovens.
Are you looking for an easy-to-use wood oven? Check out the Forno Bravo Primavera Oven. It's a true Italian-style oven that requires zero installation. Just set it and go.
Don't take our word for it. Here is what Peter Reinhart, our favorite Bread Baking guru, thinks:
"I'm in love with my Primavera oven. Why? Because it was easy to install (no frame building required--for me that was essential because I'm not good in that area), it's so easy to fire up, it heats quickly and holds the heat way longer than I thought it would (hours later it was still at 350 degrees), and -- and this is more important than you might imagine)-- it looks so cool! Not only do my friends experience immediate oven envy, but when they taste the food that comes out of it they jot down the website and start calculating where they plan to put theirs. The learning curve for cooking is very fast--I had my pizzas and focaccias figured out by the second pie and my oven roasted meats and vegetables were a quick study. The neighbors keep asking when we're firing up again, which makes us very popular in the neighborhood.
Peter Reinhart, Charlotte, NC"
Plus, Forno Bravo ovens are Listed to both UL737 and UL2162, the newest and most stringent wood-fired oven standard for building and fire safety, as well as NSF/ANSI 4 (sanitation) and ANSI Z.83 11b (commercial gas ovens). Very few ovens have passed this important new standard, so if UL matters, be sure to ask.
If you want to see how cool it is to cook in a wood oven, check out Forno Bravo Video. Or, click play and watch us bake a 90-second Vera Pizza Napoletana in a hot Primavera oven.
Are you ready to get going quickly? Order the Forno Bravo CD ROM. It is the definitive resource on wood-fired ovens, with over 1,000 illustrated pages and hundreds of graphics and photographs. It includes each Forno Bravo specification sheet and installation manual, along with our complete wood-fired cookbook eBook series (bread, cooking and pizza), how-to videos and comprehensive range of wood-fired oven design and operation resources.
Today, www.fornobravo.com is the premier Internet destination for not only pizza ovens, but also brick oven recipes, wood-fired pizza and bread making technique, and outdoor living. Check out our Pizza Recipes and Pizza Dough sections for more information; download our free Wood-Fired Cooking eBook Series, or watch our Wood-Fired Cooking Video Series. With offices in Tuscany, California, the UK and New Zealand, as well as dealers around the world, we are in a unique position to help you enjoy wood-fired cooking, or to help you put a pizza oven to work in your restaurant.
We are also the folks who created the Pompeii Oven™. To see which Forno Bravo pizza oven is right for you, click on our guide to Selecting the Right Pizza Oven. Or, join our Brick Oven User Group, and enjoy sharing ideas with other brick oven aficionados. A Forno Bravo pizza oven or Outdoor Fireplace can be an essential element of any outdoor (or indoor) room, and we look forward to helping you learn more about the world of wood-fired cooking.
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Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
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Our Wood-Fired Cooking and Wood-Fired Pizza eBooks are now available from the Forno Bravo Store. Over 100 pages of techniques, recipes and photos. And they are both free.
It's Olive Oil Season in Tuscany. Olive Oil Photo Journal shows you how the best Italian Olive Oil is really made.
Visit the Forno Bravo Showroom in Northern California. We are happy to announce that it is now easy to see and touch the Forno Bravo Ovens and pick up your oven accessories. Call for an appointment.
Bake great pizza in a conventional oven. Professional-grade Pizza Stones are now available from the Forno Bravo Store.
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The Forno Bravo Store goes live. Now you can purchase your favorite pizza ingredients, pizza peels, oven accessories, and even pizza ovens -- on line.
Gourmet Pizza Ingredients. Find imported Caputo Tipo 00 pizza flour, San Marzano tomatoes, olive oil, oregano, capers, anchovies, and more at the Forno Bravo Store.
Forno Bravo launches Tell a Friend program to pay oven owners a 10% commission when a friend buys a Forno Bravo pizza oven.
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Forno Bravo Forum goes live. Join the pizza oven community to share your ideas on installation and cooking.
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