Any serious chef needs the right tools. This includes the freshest ingredients, the best instruments and of course, a good oven. Pizza is one of the most popular foods in the world, and it requires a very special method and special tools to make it just right. Of course, it is possible to make a good pizza n a traditional oven with traditional tools, but for the genuine Italian experience, a special type of oven is needed.
The Italian oven
Pizza is traditionally cooked in a huge stone oven heated by burning wood. This is a very expensive, time consuming and difficult process, but produces by far and away the best pizzas in the world. Naturally, all of this effort isn’t for everyone, so as an alternative I present to you the electric pizza oven. Effective and easy, but at what cost?
Advantages
Two big advantages immediately spring to mind with this pizza oven; they are faster, and much, much smaller. There is no long wait for the oven to heat up, and it is very easy to get the oven to the right temperature. The electric oven is also much more portable than commercial pizza ovens, so you don’t have to have your whole garden or a special room in your house dedicated to this oven, as can be the case with the immense Italian oven. The size makes it perfect for home use and for caterers. The oven is also specially designed to bring out the flavors in the pizza.
Disadvantages
There are honestly not a whole lot of disadvantages to using an electric pizza oven over the traditional Italian model. For a professional pizza restaurant the look of the traditional oven would be a big draw for customers, and it does taste better, but overall the electric oven is a great purchase for almost anyone.