The Wood-Fired Blog
A Novel of Ancient Rome
Jan 14, 2013You know that I have always found ancient Rome interesting (to this day I get a kick just thinking about the wood ovens in Pompeii), and so does my wife — who recently published a historical novel on Galla Placidia, empress of Rome in the mid 400’s. She started researching the book when we were living in Florence, and has now put the finishing touches on the novel, and has... Read More
New Fire Within Workshops
Jan 14, 2013Our good friends at The Fire Within (Bolder, CO) will be holding a new workshop targeted at everyone who is thinking of getting into wood-fired oven catering. They’ve been doing this for years, and they make great trailer ovens (in lots of different shapes and sizes for different types of catering), they exclusively use Forno Bravo ovens (yay), and their workshops provide a great deal of practical, hands-on information that... Read More
Wood-Fired Pizza Truck and Snow
Jan 14, 2013Wood-Fired Pizza Truck and Snow I really like this one. Chris Woodbeck Ilion, NY Best way to melt snow is with fire. Read More
January 2013 | No. 46; We’ve Moved & Kale-Leek Gratin
Jan 13, 2013Welcome to our Wood-Fired Newsletter January 2013 Happy 2013 from Forno Bravo! We hope this newsletter finds you well and enjoying the new year. It’s been a busy but exciting time for us, as we have moved into our new facility. Read more about our new space at right. Our photo contest, winter edition, continues. We’ve received some excellent entries of beautiful ovens showcased in the snow and look forward... Read More
Cooking in a Foreign Oven
Jan 10, 2013For years I have been taking advantage of travel to experiment with different flours and ovens, so it was fun this Xmas season working with British grains and a European-style convection oven in the house that we rented for a week. Of course, it is easy to make fun of any country’s supermarket bread, and British bread is no different. Supermarket bread is really awful. So I bought a bag... Read More
Locavores with Pizza Ovens, Toronto Farmers Market
Jan 09, 2013The NY Times asks some interesting questions about the Locavore (only buying locally produced foods) movement, or the foodie, organic, expensive food movement in general —In Toronto, a Locavare’s Life Made Easy. Me? I think every farmer’s market and organic farm should have pizza ovens. 🙂 Read More
Pizza in the Snow
Jan 09, 2013Just the best Pizza ever! Name – Vance Kroeker Location – Sheridan Lake, British Columbia White stuff – snow Outside Temperature – minus 17 degrees Celsius Time to warm up oven – 150 minutes End result – mmm! Best pizza ever. Read More
More on Pizza Ovens and Innovation
Dec 23, 2012The fishermen, takes time to repair his nets, and lumberjacks always needs to carve out (see what I did there?) the time to sharpen their axes. So, what does a pizza oven manufacturer do during the rare quiet moment in the winter? We invest in our tooling. We are always developing new manufacturing tools and methods, and we’ve been particularly active this winter. Do you remember the early Lexus car commercials... Read More
Casa Grande High School — OLE Will Feature a Kitchen With a Pizza Oven
Dec 20, 2012Before we moved to the Monterey Peninsula (via Florence), we lived in Sonoma county in the beautiful California wine country. So when we heard about the Casa Grande High School OLE Project (Outdoor Learning Environment) in Petalum, CA, we were really interested. To quote the source: The OLÉ Project is an exciting new venture that will provide students at Casa Grande High School with an expansive new area to learn... Read More
