Oh, I have the same problem! Getting the floor hot enough. I always light the fire too late, so the floor only gets hot enough to bake pizza when I pull out the last pizza! 🤣 Patience is a virtue few have access to! But as you mentioned, the heat retention is awesome. I still get temps in the 100's or close to it the next morning. I leave some roasts overnight but bake some bread before that. And I NEED to try the cookies! I have not thought about it. Or croissants. Your post makes me all excited to light the fire and cook in the pizza oven!
Do it! DO IT!! I need to bounce pizza baking ideas off someone else. My husband has been watching youtube clips but the people that cook there are like Michelen chefs! We are barely qualified to watch Masterchef! Oh and croissants? Do you have an unfloppable recipe? LOVE croissants. I worked in a patissiere in my young(er) days and ate more than one hot out the oven with a cappucino when I arrived at 6 every morning. Yummy
Oh I would love to! I am thinking about making a video or two of my experiments in the pizza oven. Maybe you'd find it interesing! Sourdough pizzas, and maybe sourdough rusks! And then the croissants. I am not in any way shape or form a pastry chef. I have tried sourdough pastry, but that one is still in the works. But there is a hack....... and I will make a post about it 😉🥐 keep your eyes peeled! Oh, the suspense. No, I am joking. But the recipe or the hack recipe is in the works.
Please let me know! I don't know why I miss so many of your posts. A hack sounds like the perfect recipe
I will let you know! Hopefully, it works out. All fingers crossed. The thing with sourdough, as I am sure you are aware, is it takes so much time! So when one recipe flops you need to wait two or three days for the next batch.
Yup! And when you don't need to make anything then you have an absolute glut of "discard" which I hate to discard
Right! When I worked at the bakery a couple of years back we threw out so much discard. It was sad. And it was 100% rye, so all the rye discard got dumped. Rich people who owned the place. Could not talk sense in them and they wanted everything done in their way.
It is sad. There's so much that can be done with that discard. I like some of the American ideas. Although I don't know if that reaches to bakeries or just private homes. Imagine how much of a diversity of pastries that bakery could've had with the discard....