What is the difference between a pizza oven and a bread oven?
We like to say that it is easy to cook bread in a pizza oven, but difficult to cook pizza in a bread oven. That is because bread and pizza cook in fundamentally different ways. Bread ovens are designed to cook multiple batches of bread at a low heat, from a single firing, and as a result they have trouble reaching and holding the temperature needed for pizza. A pizza oven has the right thermal mass for pizza, food and bread. It heats up quickly, and has a round cooking hearth designed for fire in the oven cooking. At the same time, it has enough mass to easily cook a large batch of bread from a single firing – more than enough bread for any family.
