Our newest burn unit got a serious work out last week. 32 Pizzas, several roasted peppers, a bunch of sausages, a complete tray of garlic pinwheels all in a 2.5 hour span. And there were no leftovers!

This wasn’t our traditional wood fired pizza oven test drive but an event we had at our Agawam, Massachusetts retail store. There were pony rides, face painting but the big hit of the day was the free pizza.

We decided to burn in our Model D oven due to the volume of food we would be preparing. In the beginning we were cooking 4 pizzas at a time due to the large number of hungry visitors. The first 4 pizzas were almost polished off by the time we pulled 4 more pizzas from the oven. After that we were cooking 2 pizzas at a time to eliminate the need to re-fire individual slices.

It was an AWESOME day!

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We just received our newest burn unit!

A “burn unit” is simply a pizza oven we have on display and use for demonstrations etc. In our case we use our burn units for our Free Test Drives. We also use them for testing out new recipes.

We built this model D wood fired oven into a paver stone surround and added a marble counter top.  We were in a bit of a hurry to get it installed for a big event we were having and were able to get the wall up and oven installed in under 3 hours.

We get a lot of requests to test drive our wood fired pizza ovens. During each test drive I typically get the fire going and myself and a couple of our staff cook a few pizzas etc. with our visitors. Well in late March I had a different sort of test drive request. A local chef who is also a friend asked if he could test drive one of our wood fired pizza ovens. It’s a pretty normal request so I said “sure, when would you like to try it out?”. We set a date for April 9th.

On April 8th Chef Tolli arrived to drop off a very large table and some ingredients. I was a bit surprised to see 8 pizza doughs, a food processor, a gallon or so of his sauce and large bags of cheese, vegetables, sausage and other ingredients. When I asked him “why so much stuff?” he told me he wanted to cook all afternoon and had asked some of our mutual friends to come and test drive the oven with us.

So on April 9th Chef Tolli commandeered my model B pizza oven for the aftrnoon and it was awesome!

Chef preparing for his test drive

Chef Tolli made about 8 Pizzas, his famous garlic pin wheels and some fantastic sauteed veggies!