No, moving the embers earlier is not the answer. You need to let the oven really heat up, to like 300C degrees. Also you need to have the roof of the inside be very hot, to that the radiant heat quickly cooks from the top, so less time in the oven and little burning from the bottom. Things like this can't be rushed. It's all in the prep. The cooking time is actually quite quick.
Nice to meet your wife. I had to laugh when you pulled out the leaf blower because I use mine for everything and get teased by my grandchildren 😂 I must agree with your wife, I prefer a warm kitchen 😂😘💕 and I really got a chuckle out of this 👍😂
Didn't the on screen text say that she was his girlfriend? Regardless it is nice to meet her. I'm very curious because she said her "Mayan ancestors." That is an interesting topic. 😊
She is my girlfriend, we're not married. but you are right I called her the missus at the start of the video, so I understand the confusion. In British English, 'the Missus'/Mrs' is more of a slang term which can just mean girlfriend or partner
That was frankly a great first attempt. Learning by doing in cooking seems to be the way, and you did just as well as could be. It's nice to meet your glamorous assistant, and I look forward to the next installment! Cheers and keep warm! :)
Oh, that was a lot of fun and you are real troopers. Really enjoyed this video, thank you. Your oven is perfect as you will discover, be patient and cultivate getting to know it's personality and idiosyncrasies, just as real bakers have done since humans first constructed ovens.
Amazing job from a New Yorker. You are right about the weaknesses of the oven but it sounds like you've got it mostly figured out in just one run and the last one especially looked pretty good. Tell ya what, I'll come by and taste some! 😂
Well done. Thoroughly entertaining. The more you use your oven the greater your understanding of how it performs, and what it’s capable of, and your instincts will become more in tune with it when you’re cooking. I look forward to seeing more of your cooking adventures with it.
For your first trial you did brilliantly. I laughed when pizzas 3 and 4 were coming out the oven because I had been thinking after all the effort to get it hot enough I would keep cooking until the fire died and then there you were! 👨🍳
So fun to see what has become of the abandoned area you first uncovered. Was this test perfect? No, but you also aren't a pizza oven expert. I think it worked out better than you could have hoped for. Thank you for your content!
Good fun, love the bantz, Mum & Dad had the right idea, turn up when it's almost ready ! I'm sure every oven has it's quirks and you'll soon work out how to get the best from it !
It's pretty hard to get used to your oven, I built one 6 years ago and throughout lockdown I mastered it, I had nothing else to do. The more you use it the better you will become. Get the best driest wood you can find, Birch works well for pizzas burns hot but not for long, Ash and Oak burns cooler but for longer, ideal for baking or cooking meat for longer 3-4 hours. When the roof of the oven has turned white and burnt off all the soot its perfect and up to temp. I've enjoyed your videos, thanks.
Thanks, I've told her that before. her accent is a bit of blend of living all over, 5-10 year periods in several different countries. don't know if it can be traced.
Brilliant, you'll get the hang of it quickly. Fun to practice too, because you get to eat pizza. A good tip to quickly take some heat out the stone floor is to put a cold cast iron pan on it, it'll absorb the heat. Also, if the base is cooking too quickly and the top isnt done you can put the pizza on the peel and hold it in the oven high up. It's called "doming" I beleive. Cant wait to see more!
yes that was my attitude, if it cooks and tastes nice that's a decent first run. obviously room for improvement but can't be that unhappy with pizza for lunch
Pizza ovens are definitely tricky to learn how to use but you guys did well, great job. Love making pizza in a pizza oven. Roasts are awesome cooked in the oven too. Take care and thank you for sharing 👏🙏❤️
Nice to meet your glamorous assistant. I think you will be happy with your oven. The height is harder to see in but easier to pull the pizza out which you will appreciate more as the pizzas get bigger. Having the flew not in the dome allows the radiant heat to cook the top of the pizza better. You can get an oven thermometer to put in the oven center for not much. Bon Appetit!
If you want to cool the cooking surface a bit, remove some ash, and humidify the air so that the top cooks more quickly use a small cotton string mop and swab the are where your dough will be. It will evaporate instantly cleaning and cooling that spot, and allowing more efficient heat transfer throughout the oven due to denser air. Also, once you're cooking you can close the flue most of the way since the coals won't smoke very much and that will help to even out the heat inside since there won't be as much draft.
We have a wood fired pizza oven and we light the fire 3 HOURS before we cook any pizzas. The oven has to get really hot. We know that the oven is hot when the ceiling of the oven is white ie all the soot has burnt off. The hot ceiling cooks the top of the pizza. Our oven is also too low so my husband has a chair that he places in front of the oven so that he can sit and see into the oven easily. We never cook pizza with the door closed.
I believe walkingstick 6655 had suggestions that will help on future efforts. I might add that if you’d had some tongs handy, you could have moves some coals from your fire pit to warm the oven more. An enjoyable video as usual. Thanks.
It's always hard to do something right from the very first time, especially when you use a new equipment, which can behave in unexpected and unfamiliar way. I think, you did great - there wasn't totally burnt or mostly raw first pizza, it looked so yummy! I am a bit jealous that I didn't taste it.
I liked the banter with you and your girlfriend! You seem like a very nice couple. I enjoyed your outdoor kitchen build video - good luck on your future projects!!
You might try cooking your pizzas on a raised platform of some sort, maybe grated. If needed, use corn meal on cooking surfaces to prevent sticking. Just toss in a handful or two. Love your videos!
The fire needs to burn for a pretty long time to get the roof and the walls really hot, the heat radiation from the roof is important to bake the top surface of the pizza before its underside gets charred. My neighbor has a slightly larger oven for baking bread, she keeps the fire going for a few hours, then she removes all the burning charcoal and wipes the bottom of the oven with a wet towel to remove the ash. And then she can bake large loafes of bread for the rest of the day, and in the evening when the oven gets to cool for bread, she can still bake some cookies in it...
Uma ideia para não queimar a parte inferior da pizza é colocar em uma forma de metal e não diretamente a mesma no cimento. Assim assamos tudo, o calor se propaga bem na forma sem fazer carvão na base do alimento.
The ethnic banter in the cold had me chuckling, my dad was German/English/Irish/Scottish mix while my mother is Choctaw, a tribe from the southeast of the states, I can’t stand the heat or the cold 😂
Rotate the pizza every minute or so. Use hard woods like ash or oak. Get the firestone as hot as possible then keep the wood far right inside the pizza fireplace.
I spend one winter in Wales in Pen-Craig_Uchaf, the farm of Nick Turner who was the singer of the band Hawkwind. Wales is beautiful! I also spend some time in summer near Devil's Bridge. Greetings from Germany
If you wanted to get the pizza oven at a more comfortable height you could possibly modify the floor. Remove some of the stone floor and dig out a small area in front of it then replace the stone back on the floor in the recessed area. You could also incorporate a small ledge to accommodate a wood platform to set over the recess when the ovens not in use so the floor space would still be usable.
Maya were smart enough not to live in place where the air freezes white ! :D Don't buy kits, buy the ingredients and have THICK pizza. Great to see the Barbie area being used, well done. 35 o C here in Australia.
I've seen bread bakers use an oven similar to yours. When they heat up the oven all the black inside the oven has to be burned off before the oven is ready. The oven is ready to bake bread when the inside of the oven turns white. Baking time for a pizza or a couple of loaves of bread is fast, about 2 minutes or so for a pizza, like the ones you made. You have to wait; the inside of the oven must be white before the bread goes in, even if you're freezing to death.
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No, moving the embers earlier is not the answer. You need to let the oven really heat up, to like 300C degrees. Also you need to have the roof of the inside be very hot, to that the radiant heat quickly cooks from the top, so less time in the oven and little burning from the bottom. Things like this can't be rushed. It's all in the prep. The cooking time is actually quite quick.
True!
Nice to meet your wife. I had to laugh when you pulled out the leaf blower because I use mine for everything and get teased by my grandchildren 😂 I must agree with your wife, I prefer a warm kitchen 😂😘💕 and I really got a chuckle out of this 👍😂
Didn't the on screen text say that she was his girlfriend? Regardless it is nice to meet her. I'm very curious because she said her "Mayan ancestors." That is an interesting topic. 😊
@@BLKninjas I honestly thought he said wife but she was lovely 😊
@@karengossett1475 I was confused as well when I saw your post. 😂
She is my girlfriend, we're not married. but you are right I called her the missus at the start of the video, so I understand the confusion. In British English, 'the Missus'/Mrs' is more of a slang term which can just mean girlfriend or partner
Doing and created together IS the adventure of learning!!!
Thoroughly enjoyable!
That was frankly a great first attempt. Learning by doing in cooking seems to be the way, and you did just as well as could be. It's nice to meet your glamorous assistant, and I look forward to the next installment! Cheers and keep warm! :)
You're way too hard on yourself. This is wonderful. Look at what you did!!! The previous occupants would be so proud of what you did with their home.
What a great place for a lovely couple like yourselves to hang out.
Your wife is lovely, and you both are super funny together. Great attitude to just give it a try and go for it.
Thank you!
The reward at the end of the long hard project. Job well done and enjoy.
Once again a pleasurable viewing video ! Very nice meeting the missus !
great way to enjoy winter!!! piping hot pizza!
Oh, that was a lot of fun and you are real troopers. Really enjoyed this video, thank you. Your oven is perfect as you will discover, be patient and cultivate getting to know it's personality and idiosyncrasies, just as real bakers have done since humans first constructed ovens.
Thank you. Yes I'm sure we will get better quite quickly. plenty of practice next year!
Awesome video! That was a fun adventure! Thank you for sharing.
A thoroughly enjoyable video, folks.
Embrace the cold. Cold air is so good for you. New sub here. : )
Very exciting to see you use your happy accident find for the first time 😃👌.
A very enjoyable video and lovely to see you with your partner. A great first go at the Pizza oven👍🙏
That was fun! Well done 😊
Amazing job from a New Yorker. You are right about the weaknesses of the oven but it sounds like you've got it mostly figured out in just one run and the last one especially looked pretty good.
Tell ya what, I'll come by and taste some! 😂
Well done. Thoroughly entertaining. The more you use your oven the greater your understanding of how it performs, and what it’s capable of, and your instincts will become more in tune with it when you’re cooking. I look forward to seeing more of your cooking adventures with it.
Glad you enjoyed it, I think we'll do more cooking in the Spring
I'm so hungry now 😊. Great job!
An Old British Cook House! Love this idea to cook stuff in your recently unearthed kitchen! (The Unearthed Kitchen?). Wow so many ideas :)
…it’s Welsh
@@countesscable thanks for correction
Wales is part of Britain.
Good job, made me hungry! Must be so satisfying for you taking that site from rubble to a functioning area with a history to it. Very cool!
Really nice to meet your family and pizza's look lush. Happy yule tidings to you all .
For your first trial you did brilliantly. I laughed when pizzas 3 and 4 were coming out the oven because I had been thinking after all the effort to get it hot enough I would keep cooking until the fire died and then there you were! 👨🍳
So fun to see what has become of the abandoned area you first uncovered. Was this test perfect? No, but you also aren't a pizza oven expert. I think it worked out better than you could have hoped for. Thank you for your content!
thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I was pretty happy with the outcome too, but always room to do better next time.
Good fun, love the bantz, Mum & Dad had the right idea, turn up when it's almost ready !
I'm sure every oven has it's quirks and you'll soon work out how to get the best from it !
yes they were waiting for the right moment!
what a great team you two...
Put corn meal on your pizza spatula then put your pizza … if it stuck. Also check out cold pizza dough rising and regular pizza dough rising.
It's pretty hard to get used to your oven, I built one 6 years ago and throughout lockdown I mastered it, I had nothing else to do. The more you use it the better you will become. Get the best driest wood you can find, Birch works well for pizzas burns hot but not for long, Ash and Oak burns cooler but for longer, ideal for baking or cooking meat for longer 3-4 hours. When the roof of the oven has turned white and burnt off all the soot its perfect and up to temp. I've enjoyed your videos, thanks.
I put the embers either side of the pizza oven, rather than one side , makes an all round heat
Four pizzas on the first try! Success!
Well done! Excellent results for the first time. Enjoy your vids, you remind me of our youngest.
You two are so cute together 😊 lovely to see you putting all your hard work to good use
You two are adorable. Thank you for sharing your adventures!
Thanks!
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I think you did well considering your conditions. Looks quite yummy. Ready for round two.
Your wife has such a beautiful gentle voice...where is her accent from? She needs her own ASMR channel with that voice 🤣❤️❤️
Thanks, I've told her that before. her accent is a bit of blend of living all over, 5-10 year periods in several different countries. don't know if it can be traced.
Cool people (pun intended). Thanks for sharing your journey. Cheers from Texas.
I love a good Frosty morning, blowing them Dragon Breaths, no matter your age.
Brilliant, you'll get the hang of it quickly. Fun to practice too, because you get to eat pizza. A good tip to quickly take some heat out the stone floor is to put a cold cast iron pan on it, it'll absorb the heat. Also, if the base is cooking too quickly and the top isnt done you can put the pizza on the peel and hold it in the oven high up. It's called "doming" I beleive. Cant wait to see more!
Thanks, my brother also advised this technique of raising it to the top so i will give it a try next time.
Great video, love the banter. Nice first time using the oven, everything was edible and nobody complained, I'd say a success.👍
yes that was my attitude, if it cooks and tastes nice that's a decent first run. obviously room for improvement but can't be that unhappy with pizza for lunch
Pizza ovens are definitely tricky to learn how to use but you guys did well, great job. Love making pizza in a pizza oven. Roasts are awesome cooked in the oven too. Take care and thank you for sharing 👏🙏❤️
Nice to meet your glamorous assistant. I think you will be happy with your oven. The height is harder to see in but easier to pull the pizza out which you will appreciate more as the pizzas get bigger. Having the flew not in the dome allows the radiant heat to cook the top of the pizza better. You can get an oven thermometer to put in the oven center for not much. Bon Appetit!
I think I will get an infrared thermometer at some point.
If you want to cool the cooking surface a bit, remove some ash, and humidify the air so that the top cooks more quickly use a small cotton string mop and swab the are where your dough will be. It will evaporate instantly cleaning and cooling that spot, and allowing more efficient heat transfer throughout the oven due to denser air. Also, once you're cooking you can close the flue most of the way since the coals won't smoke very much and that will help to even out the heat inside since there won't be as much draft.
Thanks for advice!
Wonderful video! Thank you!
Love what you're doing!!!
Great video folks, the pizzas turned out really nice, making me HUNGRY 😋, take care.
Nice to meet you Mrs! Well, you're grand at demolition so you can always break apart the pizza oven and rebuild it how you want it.
super cool! just wait until the warmer part of the year when you'll be out there in flip flops!
For the first run I think it came out pretty well. Very nice.
Thanks 👍
We have a wood fired pizza oven and we light the fire 3 HOURS before we cook any pizzas. The oven has to get really hot. We know that the oven is hot when the ceiling of the oven is white ie all the soot has burnt off. The hot ceiling cooks the top of the pizza. Our oven is also too low so my husband has a chair that he places in front of the oven so that he can sit and see into the oven easily. We never cook pizza with the door closed.
First time is always trial and error. Great job 😊
You can get special metal brushes for cleaning the floor of those ovens. You just stick a pole on the end and rake it out.
I believe walkingstick 6655 had suggestions that will help on future efforts. I might add that if you’d had some tongs handy, you could have moves some coals from your fire pit to warm the oven more. An enjoyable video as usual. Thanks.
Great video.😂 Think you did a great job!!! It is a learning curve !!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Pizza Yum😊😊😊
It's always hard to do something right from the very first time, especially when you use a new equipment, which can behave in unexpected and unfamiliar way. I think, you did great - there wasn't totally burnt or mostly raw first pizza, it looked so yummy! I am a bit jealous that I didn't taste it.
How fun pizza 🍕 looked delicious 😋 even if it was charred.. great idea on the blower! Will definitely be using it on the next fire 🔥
Lovely to meet your wife. 🙂
You two are the cutest and your mrs. is really funny, I love your energy and you should do more videos together :D
Thanks, I hope to do more videos with her!
I liked the banter with you and your girlfriend! You seem like a very nice couple. I enjoyed your outdoor kitchen build video - good luck on your future projects!!
Thanks so much!
how yummy,,,,the first of many successful pizza nights Im sure! Bon appetit!
your missus is lovely, big thanks to her for being brave to cohost with you 🥳
Hopefully I can convince her to do more! but will need to be warmer outside
Brilliant that!
Well now i'm starving after watching that! Well done, a fantastic first go indeed. Lovely to meet your partner too, she seems lovely. Great work guys!
Lots of flour under the base when rolling can help reduce blacken of the base.
Awe, you two are so cute. The pizza looked delish. I think you did really well, considering it was the first try. 😊
You could look into one of those laser thermometers to check the temp of the oven.
yes going to get an infrared one.
How lovely. Nice to see the new faces ❤
good job brother.
You might try cooking your pizzas on a raised platform of some sort, maybe grated. If needed, use corn meal on cooking surfaces to prevent sticking. Just toss in a handful or two. Love your videos!
Thanks
Was also going to add corn meal for sticking /reducing burning. Add a sprinkle of sugar if you like with the meal. Greetings from Southern Tennessee!
The fire needs to burn for a pretty long time to get the roof and the walls really hot, the heat radiation from the roof is important to bake the top surface of the pizza before its underside gets charred.
My neighbor has a slightly larger oven for baking bread, she keeps the fire going for a few hours, then she removes all the burning charcoal and wipes the bottom of the oven with a wet towel to remove the ash. And then she can bake large loafes of bread for the rest of the day, and in the evening when the oven gets to cool for bread, she can still bake some cookies in it...
yes I was too impatient and should have started earlier, will go for 300-400c temperature next time and build the heat up longer
Uma ideia para não queimar a parte inferior da pizza é colocar em uma forma de metal e não diretamente a mesma no cimento. Assim assamos tudo, o calor se propaga bem na forma sem fazer carvão na base do alimento.
Great trial run. Pizzas looked lovely. Your missus looks lovely too.
Very impressive!
The ethnic banter in the cold had me chuckling, my dad was German/English/Irish/Scottish mix while my mother is Choctaw, a tribe from the southeast of the states, I can’t stand the heat or the cold 😂
4 edible pizzas. I count that as a win!
agreed, can't complain too much!
That was awesome. Your girlfriend is adorable. Can't wait to see what you do next!
Thank you very much!
Putting a bit of corn meal or semolina on the peel will help the thin crust come off easier and not burn so much on the bottom.
Rotate the pizza every minute or so. Use hard woods like ash or oak. Get the firestone as hot as possible then keep the wood far right inside the pizza fireplace.
Semolina makes a great lubricant to stop pizza sticking to board and peel.
Cornmeal to unstick more easier to get more economical to buy
A hand powered bellow would give you much more control and less mess!
I spend one winter in Wales in Pen-Craig_Uchaf, the farm of Nick Turner who was the singer of the band Hawkwind. Wales is beautiful! I also spend some time in summer near Devil's Bridge. Greetings from Germany
That area would be a great place for a fire pit, the walls will radiate the heat back at you.😊
Get it to cooking temperature, move the coals and then with a wet mop, mop the cooking space. Works every time
Always make the fire to the side, and not in the middle. Other than that, all good. Well done!!
Hurry up and get the fire going! She’s freezing!
Perhaps a small covered area for rainy days. Maybe a three sided cover. It can't be taxed I think.
Get a thermometer gun. It’s a game changer! I cook at the stone being 430c to 450c in the centre and my pizzas come out perfect at 60 to 90 seconds.
I feel like having pizza now, a stone baked one of course.
No-one appeared when you did all that digging. But now there’s food….. 😂
Your girlfriend is fabulous ❤
haha, my thoughts exactly! she's not one for digging, but cooking and eating she's game. thank you
I think the oven should be allowed to heat up thoroughly over a long time to gate proper radiant heat from the walls
Your wife is a delightfully good sport!
While I love the excavation videos most, this was fun!
Came over from TikTok
missed opportunity when your wife asked how many triprods you have.....you had tri......
If you hold your hand in front of the open door and you can only hold it there for a few seconds, then that's probably around 300°.
Yummy
You guys are too cute!!!!!!
If you wanted to get the pizza oven at a more comfortable height you could possibly modify the floor. Remove some of the stone floor and dig out a small area in front of it then replace the stone back on the floor in the recessed area.
You could also incorporate a small ledge to accommodate a wood platform to set over the recess when the ovens not in use so the floor space would still be usable.
Maya were smart enough not to live in place where the air freezes white ! :D Don't buy kits, buy the ingredients and have THICK pizza. Great to see the Barbie area being used, well done. 35 o C here in Australia.
my brother lives in Australia, so I get regular summer updates!
I've seen bread bakers use an oven similar to yours. When they heat up the oven all the black inside the oven has to be burned off before the oven is ready. The oven is ready to bake bread when the inside of the oven turns white. Baking time for a pizza or a couple of loaves of bread is fast, about 2 minutes or so for a pizza, like the ones you made. You have to wait; the inside of the oven must be white before the bread goes in, even if you're freezing to death.
Yes I was too impatient! next time going to aim for 2 minutes cooking time you're right