I’ve eaten a ton of pizza in my lifetime, and I’ll bet most people you meet will say the same. Most of the pizza I’ve consumed has been cooked in a deck oven. You’ve seen them in most pizza joints. Some people say good pizza is good pizza no matter the cooking method.
Ingredients are the most important part of pizza making. If your sauce sucks, it doesn’t matter how good the quality of your dough and cheese are. To me, the sauce makes the pizza. I like a good balance of the tomato flavor, not too tangy, not too spicy, not too sweet.
According to a blog written by author S. Kaya on the Chef’s Deal website, One of the most preferred restaurant pizza ovens is the deck oven. The hot stone deck it has is what cooks the crust perfectly without burning the toppings. The pizza stone can be made of stone or ceramic and comes in various thicknesses. Also, its radiant heat prevents unmelted cheese and burnt crust.
Then there’s the wood fired brick oven pizza. According to Kaya’s blog: Brick pizza ovens are the traditional ones that cook with wood fire, providing the authentic smokey flavor. A pizza cooks both from the top and bottom. In a brick pizza oven, the dough cooks by the heat transmission from the bottom, and the toppings cook by the heat from the air, so the top and bottom of the pizza cook simultaneously, providing a perfectly cooked pizza.
Coal fired pizza ovens are 2 to 3 times larger than wood fired ovens and bake the pizza at a much higher temperature.. Coal fired pizzas are known for their blackened crusts which often perplexes pizza lovers who mistake the pizza as being burnt.
Coal fired pizza is the favored style of some of America’s oldest pizzerias. In fact, the oldest pizzeria in America uses the coal fired method and is just a car ride away.
Lombardi’s is located at 32 Spring Street on the corner of Mott Street in the Nolita neighborhood in New York City. It opened in 1905, and has been recognized by the Pizza Hall of Fame as the first pizzeria in the United States.
No let’s talk about the places that have the best coal fired pizza available on the Jersey Shore.
