[8mat]

Hi,

I have a new purpose moulded off the shelf pizza oven in a house in the south of France, first time of using last weekend was less than successful to say the least. I have since discovered this excellent website & am hoping for some advice which will seem very basic to most of you.
Firstly does a purpose moulded oven need the same curing process as is discussed at length on various threads ?
Secondly I was using 3 to 4 logs to build a fire in the centre of the oven and placed another 7 or 8 logs on the fire over the next hour or so & at one stage the temperature reached 180 celsius but then dipped to around 100 and stayed there. Result was I got through a pile of logs & ended up cooking in the house oven. Should I be packing the oven with logs once the fire has taken ?

Any advice would be welcome on the best wood to source in that area as well .

Thank you in advance

Matt