Kadai Pizza Oven

Product Information

THE KADAI WOOD-FIRED PIZZA OVEN IS DESIGNED TO BE USED IN A KADAI FIRE BOWL OF 70CM OR 80CM DIAMETER.

The Kadai Pizza oven makes a wonderful accessory to go with your Kadai Fire bowl. Now you can cook perfect pizza outdoors in a specially designed clay terracotta oven. The domed shaped oven allows the flames from an open fire to enter into the back of the oven through a slot in the bottom of the pizza oven, making a truly original way to cook pizzas on your Kadai fire bowl.

The dome shape of the pizza oven allows the heat from the open flame to evenly distribute around the oven and creates a stable cooking temperature. The oven will cook your pizza in around 4-6 minutes and will take up to a 12" pizza.

The clay oven sits on a special wrought iron stand which sits inside your Kadai fire bowl. You will need a fire bowl which is 70cm or larger for the oven, it is not suitable for 60cm fire bowls.

It comes complete with a wrought iron pizza loading handle (called a pizza peel) to place your pizzas into the hot oven, and a wooden serving pizza peel to place your cooked pizza onto and take to the table. The Kadai clay pizza oven is a great alternative to using your Kadai fire bowl as a traditional BBQ and is something everybody will enjoy.

Lighting Your Wood-Fired Pizza Oven

Allow a minimum of half an hour for the oven to reach a reasonable cooking temperature. This may vary depending on the outside temperature. The fire needs to burn fiercely so use smaller kindling and logs that are dry.

Lighting Technique

1. Prepare your Kadai with sand in the base (as per the Kadai Care & Use Instructions).
2. Place your Pizza Oven on its stand in your Kadai. The stand is designed so you can start a fire with the stand and oven already in place.
3. Build a small wigwam of fine kindling towards the back of the Kadai, in line with the cut out in the base of the oven.
4. Once the fire is lit, add more kindling to establish the fire. (Use our Kadai Blow Poker if required).
5. Feed the fire using small hardwood logs. Ideally you need to see flames entering the oven through the cut out.
6. We advise using an oven thermometer (heat proof) to monitor the temperature to ensure that it has reached a minimum of 200 ˚C.
7. Your pizza oven is now ready to use.

Cooking Tips

Your oven is supplied with a Pizza Peel, and a metal Pizza Plate.

1. You can cook fresh or frozen ready-made pizzas, or you can make your own dough.
2. Once your oven is up to temperature, put the pizza on the metal plate and place in the oven.
3. Your pizza should take between 2 to 6 minutes to cook. Timings will vary depending on the intensity of the fire, and the type of pizza crust.
4. To ensure the pizza cooks evenly, use the pizza peel to turn the pizza occasionally.