Tech Talk: Cooking In The Forno de Pizza, Temperature Guide
“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors. It’s how you combine them that sets you apart, WolfGang Puck.” HPC’s outdoor dining series offers culinary customers the opportunity to get creative and enjoy a vast variety of flavorful meals with limitless options!
HPC Fire Inspired wants to welcome you to the art of cooking with our Forno de Pizza oven; a prominent feature in HPC’s outdoor cooking series. Our Tech Team often fields questions around cooking in the Forno de Pizza oven. In turn, HPC wants to provide our consumers with a guide to cooking in the Forno de Pizza; detailing general mechanics of the oven as well as outlining proper temperatures and cooking times.
Forno de Pizza General Mechanics:
HPC’s Forno de Pizza Hybrid Oven utilizes a 3 part design: the monolithic oven, hearth and cart. The igloo shape that the Forno de Pizza employs is a proven method of cooking that has been around for nearly one thousand years. Unlike other ovens on the market, HPC Forno de Pizza does not require a chimney stack. Our exclusive ventilation technology allows the oven to retain the smoke and heat longer yielding bolder flavors and even cooking.
The design of the Forno de Pizza creates the foundation for the marrying of conduction, convection and radiant heat yielding perfectly cooked flavorful meals.
There are great advantages to using a dual fueled oven. One can easily control the oven’s temperature by adjusting the heat with a mere turn of a dial. In addition, having both gas and wood burning fuel heat sources offers consumers flexibility. The hybrid gas and wood model enables the oven to reach temperature quickly as well as maintain its temperature without having to tend to the flame as much as a singular wood burning oven.
Being able to easily regulate the flame of the burner on the oven gives one the ability to warm up food at low temperatures as well as raise the heat of the oven quickly to sear meat or to burn the oven at its’ hottest range at 1000 degrees to clean the cooking stone.
HPC’s specially formulated refractory oven heats up faster than any other oven on the market. It is paired with HPC’s proprietary electronic ignition technology and offers a dual fuel source. The mechanics of the oven make it safe and reliable yielding even cooking and layered flavors.
To utilize the dual fuel source simply ignite the oven using the electronic ignition. Then place the wood over the flame allowing the wood to catch fire as the oven heats simultaneously. If you want to cook with one fuel source you can easily turn off the gas or omit the use of wood. The transition is just that easy.
HPC’s Forno de Pizza Oven Cooking Guide:
Just as one would cook in a household oven, taking into consideration different temperatures and cooking times for various foods is essential to successful cooking. Here are a few examples of cooking ranges from low temperatures that keep food warm to very high temperatures to sear meats.
| Foods | Temp | Time | Wood or gas |
| Warm food without drying it | 160 F | varies | gas |
| Smoking baby back ribs, fish | 200-250F | 3-5 hours | Gas and smoke chips |
| Dessert, empanadas | 300-350F | 15-20 minutes | gas |
| Bread, pies, Stromboli, turkey, casserole | 350-375F | 30 minutes | Gas and wood |
| Bake fish, deep dish pizza, Panini | 400-450F | 15-30 minutes | Gas and wood |
| Sear meats, roast vegetables | 500-700F | 3 minutes per side | Gas and wood simultaneously |
| Neapolitan style pizza | 700-800F | 90 seconds | Gas and wood simultaneously |
| Clean drippings in the oven’s hearth stone | 800-1000+ F | 5 minutes | Gas and wood simultaneously |
Over time, you will build mastery of your oven. Learning the oven’s nuances playing with the temperature as well as cooking time will expand upon the delicacies that you can create. The more you use the oven the more you begin to understand the heat sources, heat absorption, heat control, and the time to heat and cook different foods. Utilizing the Forno de Pizza is an art. HPC welcomes you to expand your cooking horizons with our signature outdoor dining series. Explore the use of HPC’s outdoor dining accessories, visit www.http://HPCFire.com. Need some ideas to get started? HPC is always ready to share what’s cooking in our oven, be sure to check out HPC’s signature recipes online at www.https://HPCFire.com/recipes or follow us on our YouTube channel where we share step by step videos, Bon Appetit.
Customer Service:
Contact HPC’s Fire Inspired Team at 937-436-9800 or at Info@HPCFire.com, to address any questions or concerns from selecting your designs to installation. As an added benefit to our consumers, check out HPC Fire One App. Offering customers the ability to plan their design with the use of augmented reality as well as step-by-step installation instructions and troubleshooting.
