Cooking a pizza in under 38 seconds
Kanthal’s pizza cooker uses infrared radiation to heat up the oven’s contents. The compact element design, often referred to as porcupine elements, makes it possible to pack a large amount of power into a small space.
The oven uses eight of these porcupine elements, which are made from iron-chromium-aluminium AF alloy the company has created, each running at a temperature of 900°C. The oven also features several reflectors to aid the even distribution of heat and ensure food is baked thoroughly.
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So, flash burnt on the outside
and still raw on the inside?
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Varmint, Thu 21 May 2020, 15:54,
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Well apparently a wood-fired oven is around 430°C and can cook a pizza in as little as 90 seconds.
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wood-fired also has the minor advantage of being able to cook the base as well as the toppings.
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People who make their own pizzas make them REALLY thin
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jonbob loves you, Thu 21 May 2020, 17:38,
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Do you make them in a hand-made stone oven in your garden, fuelled by logs that didn't quite fit into your log burner, and unsullied by modern contrivances such as cement?
If not, then I confess I've over-generalised.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 22 May 2020, 2:36,
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Ah, I wish, but regrettably not and you forgot to mention using old wine bottles to insulate the oven floor.
I have a bog-standard electric oven which I can just about crank up to 260 °C, but instead of a pizza stone I use a 6 mm sheet of carbon steel, and pre-heat the oven for an hour before. The shock of the dough hitting that plate makes the dough spring nicely. Overall they are very acceptable pizzas, but another 140 °C would make a big difference.
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Varmint, Fri 22 May 2020, 22:06,
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Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside!
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 21 May 2020, 22:49,
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I reckon this is a better option.
youtu.be/XBDT2fDiSr
(excuse the French)
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MyFrontFellOff ; his mouth full of teddies, urinating defiantly, Thu 21 May 2020, 16:12,
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it would appear that someone doesn't want to excuse the French
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This link works
And the guy is french, and it is about cooking pizza at home, at 800F.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBDT2fDiSrk
He talks English so the only French to excuse is the guy in the video, he seems nice enough though.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 21 May 2020, 19:54,
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Funnily enough my oven also uses infrared radiation to heat the oven's contents.
As do all ovens.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 21 May 2020, 16:27,
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Nope, most are either plain convection or forced air convection
Unless by contents you mean the air in the oven and you’re ignoring conduction to the same.
Ed: grilling probably counts as the element is exposed and the food is placed quite close.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 21 May 2020, 17:38,
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Infrared radiation is heat, dummy.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 22 May 2020, 14:31,
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but what is he has
*clang*, *clang*, steam heat?
/ed if not is
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Electric ovens don’t have exposed elements
And the elements don’t get hot enough for radiative heating.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 22 May 2020, 17:46,
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these are the kind of people who would have a gas barbeque
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simbosan liked your link on, Thu 21 May 2020, 19:11,
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How does the oven choose how clean the energy source is?
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Thu 21 May 2020, 21:45,
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Sophisticated geolocation.
Just don't take it to the Netherlands.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 21 May 2020, 23:09,
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It only works on free range, organic, electrons.
As opposed to the battery ones.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 21 May 2020, 23:55,
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