The value of our old wood-fire oven

It wasn’t long before when our wood-fire oven had become one of our gourmet appliances at home. Withstanding paasage of time, this tool help us not only in preparing our food but also it gives us some of the benefits we need to have an easy life.

The oven help us to conserve energy because unlike modern household gas or electric ovens that provide a nearly constant cooking temperature, our oven is typically heated only once during the firing stage. Meaning after the coals are raked out, the oven gradually cools over a period of hours or even days that it may be used to cook multiple batches.

Though it is quite old, the oven has been our asset to our home and bring our kitchen to life as we go out in all weathers to cook. In some ways, it adds to the flavours of our food and change the way we think about food. We bake amazing bread and added benefit is that you can slow cook anything from vegetables to meats, and you can use them for dehydrating seasonal fruits and vegetables.

These are the benefits that our old wood-fired ovens have:

• ·         Fast heating times and retains heat longer. Up to 24 hours.
• ·         Economical by the use of wood
• ·         Easy to use, clean, little or no maintenance.
• ·         Appropriate for all types of cooking, baking, roasting, BBQ, grilling, smoking, re-heating

Through the years, through the use of wood-fired ovens it gives a distinctve taste and flavor to our every food that is far better to conventional gas or electric ovens. That is how amazing our wood fired ovens. This wood fired oven may seem simple but its complex structure requires a skillfull know-how to make it effectively working.

The delightful of the wood fired oven brings unique characteristic to your home and every activities. There are lots of hardware store that offers low cost wood fire ovens taking you to cook into another level of excitement. Some ovens are customized to choose a wood fire oven or fireplace of your own that is design beyond a skill set.

So if you don’t have yet this kind of helping tool in your kitchen, try this and see all the good things that it may give to your life.

Wood-fired ovwns: The Ultimate Foodie Appiliance for the Home

It would be difficult to describe how we Filipinos loved to eat. When we are in the kitchen, we always find ways on how we are going to prepare our food in a very effective and deleactable way.  One of the often used tools in cooking is the wood-fired oven.

Touted as “the ultimate foodie appliance”, wood-fired oven is a useful tool that gives lots of advantages instead of using gas/electric stove. So racked your brains, tried this tool and see the pleasure of using wood-fired oven as I list some of the benefits that it may give to you.

The ultimate foodie must-have

Having a wood fired oven in your home is the start of a new lifestyle that will give you a traditional cooking styles. Wood-fired ovens or commonly known as wood ovens, are ovens that use wood fuel instead of gas/electricity for cooking. The food is cooked by means of heated chamber after the fire and coals have been swept out.

Nowadays, the use of wood-fird ovens at home is becoming better and more efficiently. A well-designed wood-fired oven offers many benefits over conventional ovens because the unique thing is you can cook multiple batches using the retained heat stored in the mass of the oven dome.

One great benefit of using the wood oven is it produces unique flavor. Only a wood-fired brick oven imparts that unique smoky flavor that cannot be reproduced in a normal kitchen oven. The high temperature produces other flavors not achieved by slow cooking.

Added advantage is that a clay or earthen oven can be heated up to 700 degrees and will radiate the heat evenly over time thus roasting foods that taste better. In fact, you can use them in so many ways that they become a part of your kitchen, often on a daily basis.

No worries because it is possible to buy a cheap woodfired oven from a hardware store. If you want to have these at home there are well made woodfired ovens have been designed to be efficient and long lasting.

Do you know?

In the Philippines, the greatly known as "LA PUGON" is a traditional wood fired oven. It features impressive and effective functions which are enhanced with the use of only heat resistant materials.

It is made ofperfect material, precise engineering and creativity that were painstakingly employed resulting to a finest quality performance of the LA PUGON wood fired oven that will surely bring your cooking experience to the next level.

The Magic of Wood Fired Oven Recipes

In my previous write up, I already discussed the many benefits and advantages of having wood fired oven as one of the gourmet appliances. In one of my article, I have shared how this tool help us and become witness of how delight our kitchen stories.

Today, let me share you how this tool add magic to our dishes. I list some of the recipes that are best cook using the wood fired oven. You will surely love it because it became an extraordinary meal that is full of spices and flavours.

Appetizers

It is quick and easy to prepare. Some of the best appetizers are Ancho Chile Tart, Artichoke Dip, Cumin Flecked Mixed Olives with Goat Cheese, Fire Baked Goat Cheese, Clams Cataplana, Olive Tapenade, Prawns Wrapped with Prosciutto and Basil, Steamed Clams in Thyme Coconut Sauce, Roasted Antipasti Platter, and Wood Stone Drummettes.

Breads

Deliciously decadent breakfast bread such as Bread of Life, Chocolate Hazelnut Breakfast Bread, Fire Cracker, Focaccia, Sweet Italian Bread, Lavash Cracker Bread, Naan Bread, and Pita Bread.

Breakfast

Delectable breakfast including Apple and Vanilla Custard Breakfast Pizza, Benedict Pizza, Breakfast Scones, Dutch Baby, Italian Sweet Bread, Roasted Potatoes O'Brian, almon Breakfast Pizza with Caper Dill Cream Cheese, and Zucchini and Basil Frittata.

Dessert

Elegant desserts are also possible using wood oven. Delicate desserts such as Berry Cardamom Cobbler, Berry Cobbler, Candied Fig Cheesecake with Port Reduction, hocolate Gourmandize, Raspberry Coulis for Gourmandize, Ginger Crème Brulee, Key Lime Cheesecake, Port Poached Pears, Raspberry Peach Crisp, and Vanilla Custard.

Sauces, Marinades & Rubs

Spicy sauce adds a touch of heat to any dish. Best Sauces, Marinades & Rubs such as Buffalo Sauce, Chimichurri, Crumb Topping, Fresca, Fromage Blanc, Garlic Ginger Puree, Indian Mother Sauce, Mustard Seed Seasoning, Pepper Mélange, Pink Sauce, Potlatch Seasoning, Rib Rub, Roasted Fennel Relish, Seafood Bisque, Searing Seasonings, Soy Ginger Marinade, Wood Stone Pizza Sauce, Pale Ale Brine, and Harisa.

Sandwiches

I also challenge you to make sandwiches. Exciting dishes like Roasted Tenderloin Sandwich with Horseradish and Caramelized Onions, Rustic Italian Sandwich, Roasted Turkey Aioli Sandwich, Spicy Pork Sandwich.

Sounds delicious? Actually, there is lot more dishes that are best cook using wood fired oven like pizzas, seafood, and entrees. The use of wood-fired ovens gives a distinctive taste and flavour to our every food that is far better to conventional gas or electric ovens. That is how amazing the wood fired ovens. Not only that, your friends and family will be therefore impressed!

My Father's Pizza Story

Who shall dare to chide me for loving a pizza? Yes, I love it and it is not an ordinary pizza that you think. Would you know the secret? - My father's own style of it.

In my childhood's day, I always lingered in our kitchen with my father. And one of his greatest recipes is the wood oven pizza. Yes, it is a hoary version of cooking pizza using our old wood fired oven.

We all know that using wood fired oven gives lot of benefits. One of the advantages of using it is that the tool adds to the spices and flavours of the pizza. Here are the reasons why my father's pizza is one of the best foods ever.

Fast heating times and retains heat longer.  The baking heat in the oven can be 570 and 660 degrees Fahrenheit. By keeping a continuous small fire happening inside the oven, these temperatures can be maintained that makes a really good pizza. Actually, it is really designed to cook pizzas very quickly and efficient if you need to cook a lot of pizzas!

Delicious crust. The moisture in the dough is thus covered off by means of the heat temperature. This helps prevent flavourful crust that’s fluffy, yet soft and chewy.

Unique flavour. Only a wood-fired brick oven imparts that unique smoky flavor that cannot be reproduced in a normal kitchen oven. The high temperature produces other flavors not achieved by slow cooking.

Crispier toppings. Because of the radiant heat and incessant airflow generated in the oven, vegetable toppings will be crunchier than those pizzas made in the oven. This fast cooking also allows the vitamins and other nutrients in the veggies to remain. In addition, the actual cheese does not burn up but, instead, leads to an appealing color and smoky flavor.

It is the best! I don't think that even I searched the whole world; I would find a pizza that is as delectable and as delicious like my father's wood oven pizza. I am sure after reading this you will definitely try this at your home!