The Wood-Fired Blog
Cinnamon Raisin Bread
Oct 08, 2012This Cinnamon Raisin Bread is from Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Bread cookbook, and it came out really well. Peter describes this as a transitional recipe for a bread that lies somewhere between a nice whole wheat bread, and a sticky cinnamon roll. In general, you make a nice soft whole wheat bread using milk and an egg, plus honey, olive oil and cinnamon, and then flatten the dough and cover... Read More
Pre-Fermentation
Oct 04, 2012Most people who bake bread or read some of the really nice bread cookbooks out there (and there are some really good ones) know how important pre-fermentation is. It extracts more complexity and flavor from you flour and it allows your yeast more time to work on your flour, giving your bread better flavor and better shelf-life. Or, as the good people at Wikipedia (oh, wait. That’s all of us)... Read More
Napolino. It’s Almost Here.
Oct 02, 2012One of the fun things about writing a blog, and hopefully for you reading blogs, is that we can give you access to our thinking and to some of the interesting things that are going on behind the scenes. As the writer, I get to bend some of the rules for what we share with our community — and when. We get to leak our own products and services before... Read More
Stanley Tucci’s Pizza Oven on the Cover of the NY Times
Oct 02, 2012Very nice. Stanley Tucci’s pizza oven is on the cover of the NY Times. They say that it was “made in Italy”; I’m pretty sure it’s a Forno Bravo Artigiano (it is made in Italy) — though I’m not 100% certain. We do have a Stanley Tucci as a customer, but who know if it’s the same Stanley Tucci. The oven looks very nice, and I’m a big Stanley Tucci fan.... Read More
Pizza Oven Design — Ventilation Options. Both Good and Bad.
Oct 01, 2012Building on my postings the last couple of days on oven design and innovation, I wanted to follow up with some thoughts on pizza oven ventilation design. In general, there are a couple of different methods, including two that are quite widely used, and a couple that you need to avoid — whether you are building your own oven, putting a pizza oven kit or assemble oven in your backyard,... Read More
