A purpose-built wood-fired pizza oven in the back garden is the dream for many an amateur pizzaiolo. Tom Gozney started out designing a brick pizza oven for his back garden in 2008, and by 2014 was supplying professional ovens to some of the UK’s best-known pizza restaurants. So are these powerful backyard pizza ovens worth the investment, or can you make pizza that’s just as good, in your kitchen, using a frying pan and grill? We asked a group of pizza enthusiasts, including chefs, and an entrepreneur who makes pizza for a living, for their verdicts. “It actually compares pretty well to the pizzas we sell, as we don’t have a wood-fired pizza oven in the restaurants.

Source: The Irish Times May 16, 2020 05:45 UTC