Woodfire Ovens

This oven comes with a vertical baking chamber containing a specialized rack that can carry up to 100 trays. The rack can be placed on a turntable, which rotates during baking, thus providing uniform heat to the product. It also features computerized programmable controls that regulate the temperature, steam and baking cycles. Since the rack oven offers superior temperature control and product output, it is the most popular bakery ovens among the small and mid-sized bakeries.

This oven is best for the bakeries that deliver smaller quantities of specialty products. It consists of multiple independent baking chambers – one at the top of others. Different baking chambers can maintain different temperature inside one oven, allowing the oven to bake several different products at the same time.

This oven is best if you require producing large volume of bakery products at a time. It increases your production capacity as well as baking efficiency. In this oven, the chains carry the baking trays through the oven chamber where they pass through two heating zones (single lap) or four heating zones (double lap).

This oven is also useful for baking large volumes of products. It contains a long baking chamber through which a motor driven conveyor, carrying the baking hearth, passes in a straight line. Tunnel oven can provide separately controlled 8 heat zones. The oven is particularly used in the cookie and cracker industry because it offers the zone temperature control - optimized by separate controls for top and bottom heat.

Now, when you know your business requirement and the different varieties of bakery oven available, make your bakery business successful with the right bakery oven.

Bread oven is an oven unique for preparing flavored breads, pizzas, pies and roasts. It is made out of clay, brick, stone or refractory concrete [a concrete that can withstand high heat].

A fire is built inside the oven. Once the fire heats the walls of the oven to almost white hot, the fire is put off. Next, the embers are swept out of the oven and the floor of the oven is mopped with a damp cloth. The oven is then allowed to rest for a few minutes, as the temperature drops and heat is evenly distributed inside the oven. When the temperature in the oven shows 800°F it is ideal for pizzas and when with further dropping, the temperature shows 450°F, then it is perfect for baking breads.

You can build your own bread oven at home. You can construct an oven with the help of clay, stone or concrete. It is very cheap and easy to maintain because the wood used in the cooking of food in bread oven can be acquired from construction sites, cabinet shops and pruning from fruit trees.

However, following are the other advantages of bread oven:

• Homogeneous baking
• Double vapor system
• Perfect flavor and taste of food
• Best baked bread and pizza
• Gas furnace or fuel oil furnace alternatives

The bread oven is ideally suited for making hurried snacks and meals. You can prepare sandwiches for your children, flavored breads for breakfast, delicious pizzas for snacks and even cook meat and fish for dinner. Not only does it serve you everyday, but it also helps you to give a gourmet treat to your family and friends.

A wood fired oven is used only to make pizzas and bake breads. It is made of clay adobe, refractory firebricks or refractory concrete [heat resistant mix from ingredients that can endure high heat situations]. An added advantage of this oven is you do not have to clear the grease because the grease naturally gets burned in the oven’s hearth.

When you want to work in the wood fired oven, first build a fire inside the oven. The burning fire gives out heat, which is absorbed by the oven walls. After this, the inside dome chamber is heated and you can cook your foods. However, even after the cooking is over, you can still keep the fire burning gently for a long time without any danger.

The wood fired oven is your best choice when you want to cook pizzas or bake variety of breads. Following are some of the significant features of wood fired oven:

• It has a balanced alumina percentage that makes the oven strong and durable.
• It has appropriate opening size, which balances the need for visibility, functionality and thermal efficiency.
• It has unique natural acid resistant floor, which does not allow the acid from wood to destroy the oven floor and wall sides.
• It has Flue Location that prevents the smoke from rolling out of the oven.

The wood fired ovens have several advantages:

• Fast way of cooking - a pizza or a bread can be cooked in 2-3 minutes.
• Low maintenance, easy to install and durable.
• Ensures different cooking methods - stewing, frilling, smoking, roasting, baking and maintaining moisture and flavor.
• Uses wood, gas/wood combinations and gas.

When you want to buy a wood fired oven make sure the interior oven walls and overhead crown elements do not have any flat surfaces. The flat surfaces cause a "destructive interference" of the convection airflow system, which is very essential for excellent cooking. So it should have curved interior walls to help in perfect flow of convection airflow. This facility of the wood fired oven provides great smell and taste and retains nutrients of the food.

The cast iron Dutch oven is a thick, traditional form of oven, which can be used both for outdoor and indoor purposes. It looks like a cast iron kettle with a flat bottom and three short legs. The cast iron Dutch oven comes with tight fitting lid, a lip around the edge and a handle in the center.

The cast iron Dutch oven cooks evenly with no hot spots. You can hang the oven on a propane burner or on a tripod stand and cook your food. The cast iron Dutch oven has several features, all of which have special importance of their own. Following are some of the special features cast iron Dutch oven includes:

• The heavy lid on the top seals in moisture and flavor.
• The specially coiled handle makes it easy to grasp when you are lifting the oven.
• The upper rack is used for versatile baking.
• The center cone helps in convection like cooking.
• The lower rack is used to cook roasts and veggies.

The cast iron Dutch oven cooking is very advantageous for outdoor cooking. The versatile quality of the oven helps in cooking all types of food from roasts to pastries. The oven is quite durable and very convenient, too.

Following are the advantages of cast iron Dutch oven over other conventional ovens:

• The oven gets better with use.
• The skillets and pots of the oven are heated evenly and quickly.
• The non-stick black patina finish of the oven helps you to cook faster and better.

Various famous companies produce the cast iron Dutch oven. The features remaining similar, it is just the quality of the oven that varies.

Following are some of the major companies producing cast iron Dutch oven:

- they produce unique cast iron products and specially the cast iron Dutch oven. Added to the oven they also provide cast iron Dutch oven recipes and information of how to use the oven.

- in addition to the models of cast iron Dutch oven, they also provide guidelines for proper care and maintenance of the oven, cooking tips, techniques and recipes.

The cast iron Dutch oven provides excellent service whether you want to use it for indoor or outdoor purposes. So next time you want to have an outdoor party you don’t have to worry about the cooking because cast iron Dutch oven cooking promises delicious dishes at any time.

Clay oven is a wonderful oven made of clay, concrete blocks, bricks and mortar with sand insulation and tiled exteriors that help in cooking delicious dishes of Indian origin. Although every type of food from baking of breads to cooking of chickens and meats can be done in clay oven, Indian food is cooked the best. The food can be cooked rapidly for the oven has capacity to raise the temperature to 900°F.

There are three types of heat transfers like convective, conductive and radiant that help in easy cooking of variety of tender and yummy dishes. The clay oven can be installed in your home as well as in your back yard.

Following are the advantages of clay oven:

• It helps in healthy clay cooking for its unglazed clay oven baker.
• It can be used to cook and roast any type of meats like those of chicken, duck and mutton. The clay seals in thereby retain the juices and make the meat delicious and spicy.
• The food cooked in clay oven is healthy because all the additional fat from the food drips down into the oven container.

There should be a chimney attached to your clay oven because an oven without a chimney burns very slowly, giving the oven mass more time to absorb the heat of the fire. So for fast cooking install a chimney in your clay oven.

You should clean your clay oven with dry cloth. Do not keep any inflammable articles like curtain or match sticks to avoid the danger of fire.

So use a clay oven to have the pure taste of Indian food and give a delicious Indian food treat to your guests.