Care for your pizza oven

Your new pizza oven needs curing before you start using it for the first time. It is a necessary procedure, for the new oven is still high in moisture content due to the constructions method. Using your new wood fired oven without curing it first might cause major cracks and fractures in the structure of your oven caused by the force that water exerts upon evaporation.
There are different methods for curing the wood fired pizza oven, instructions and tips on how to cure and how to look after it will be in the digital booklet that comes with your oven.
Also, if you do not use your oven for an extended period of time, it is highly recommended to every now and then light just a little fire to keep the moisture out as, although the outside of our pizza ovens is protected from the elements by the sealant, the refractory bricks and tiles of which the wood fired oven is built tend to absorb humidity. However best is of course to use it regularly, both for the oven and for the beautiful meals you can prepare in your pizza oven.

Keeping your pizza oven clean is very easy and simple: after baking bread, the only residue you have is a bit of burnt flour which is easily swept out after cooling down.
Cooking in oven dishes will not make your oven dirty, and if any incrustation of grease splashes occurred, that will burn away when lighting your next fire.
Only after baking pizza in your oven, a little more “cleaning” is required. As mozzarella or other cheese melts and easily spills off the pizza on the oven floor. But you’ll love the easy cleaning: when you finish baking pizzas you just spread the formed coals over the cooking area so that the spilt and crusted mozzarella and topping will burn and turn to ashes which can be swept away after cooling. That’s all… So much easier than cleaning your kitchen oven.
See our oven tool set which has a stainless steel brush, ash pan,  log and pots shovel and coal rake.

Over time as you use your oven you will notice minor cracks (so called hairline cracks) developing. This is very natural for dome shaped ovens and it will not affect the functionality or structure of your oven. It is important though that you take time to cure your oven prior to using it for the first time to avoid excessive cracking.

With your oven you will receive a tube of high temperature silicon to touch up the hairlines.

My-woodfiredoven provides you with a detailed explanation of how to cure your oven with the purchase of your wood fire oven.