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Find out the new Forni Alfa blog dedicated to the world of pizza, fine food and, most of all, good cooking.
Here you will discover many articles about pizza and different types of home and professional cooking, about fine food and on how to cook it perfectly in an Alfa oven, to bowl over your friends as well as your customers with your culinary art and your precious recipes. In addition to that, many helpful tips on how to maintain and clean your oven and a lot of fun facts about barbecue and grilling techniques!
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Ten good reasons to buy an outdoor wood-fired oven.
When summer comes and you can’t wait to make the most of your outdoor space, buying an oven can give outdoor cooking a whole new meaning. Whether it be a masonry oven or a mobile one, [...]
The Importance of Refractory Brick
Wood ovens are ideal for retaining heat to cook an amazing meal, but how do the ovens stand such high temperatures and why is it important? The secret to Alfa’s wood ovens comes in the [...]
How to incorporate an Alfa into your outdoor kitchen
Cooking with open flame dates back as early as mankind and we’re always drawn back to it. With the growing popularity of Alfa Ovens in North America, we get many questions about the best way [...]
Man vs Fire
In the age-old battle of man (and woman) vs fire, who wins? You win! By tradition, the wood oven has always been the best design for cooking pizza and bread. The high temperatures and refractory [...]
The Alfa Family Tradition
Alfa Ovens began 40 years ago in the backyards of two cousins from the south of Italy. At the time, Rocco Lauro and his cousin Marcello Ortuso simply wanted to build a wood-fired oven for their own backyard parties. [...]
Wood-Fired Ovens Aren’t Just for Pizza
Wood-fired ovens certainly make for a great pizza night, but there’s so much more you cook and create with your Alfa Oven. Homemade breads, fish, veggies, steaks, casseroles – the possibilities are so endless, you [...]
Hotter, Faster, Different
Alfa Ovens is bringing a new way of cooking to North America and everyone is wondering what Hotter, Faster, Different is all about. HOTTER Alfa Ovens get hot fast and stay hot longer. Temperatures can [...]
Home professional oven: the revolution is afoot
There’s a question that sooner or later every amateur cook asks themselves: after obtaining very good results with the oven at hand, maybe the limit has been reached and time has come to upgrade to a [...]
Mistakes that are worth avoiding making a home-made pizza
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1645526023493{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]Her majesty the Pizza is not a simple food but a state of mind for us Italians. Pizza has always been our North Star that has guided us through the centuries, synonymous [...]
What is the best wood to burn and how to choose it?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1645526732479{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Firewood, the fuel of the future. The calorific value of wood is far higher than other heat sources used for home or professional cooking. While lighting a gas burner is a [...]
