Camp Chef PZOVEN Cooking Guide - Manual (Page 3)

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Cooking Pizza 101
Maintain temperature by adjusting from medium to high to keep the heat at the desired level for the number and styles of
pizza’s being cooked.
Three Types of Dough
Artisan style – make your own (recipe included)
Premade dough from local bakery, pizza shop, or grocery store bakery
Frozen/refrigerated dough from grocery store
Thin vs. Thick Dough
Thicker dough, like premade dough from a store, will need to be rolled with a rolling pin. When cooking, you will need slightly
lower stone temperatures and longer cook times.
Stretched/hand tossed thin dough, like the dough recipe found in this booklet, are cooked faster and at higher temperatures.
Size of Ball / Shape of Crust
A dough ball the size of an orange or softball will provide a 10-12 inch crust.
Toppings
Tip: less is better for a great pizza; do not overload your pizza with a lot of toppings. depending on the amount of toppings you
use, you may need to slightly adjust cook times.
Cooking Your Pizza
In general, cook an artisan pizza with thin crust at 500°- 600°F for 4-7 minutes. Thicker crust and more toppings will require
more time and lower temperatures. For premade pizzas and frozen pizzas, follow instructions provided with pizza.
When the oven is heated, adjust temperature for type of pizza being cooked.
The pizza stone temperature will rise slower than the internal air temperature at first, but will gradually become
hotter than the air.
Artisan Pizza: Approximately 500°-550°F stone temp.
Artisan Thin Crust Pizza: Approximately 500° - 600°F stone temp.
Homemade or deep dish Pizza (lots of toppings) Approximately 350° - 425°F stone temp.
Frozen Premade Pizza Approximately 375° - 420°F - Follow instructions provided with pizza.
We highly recommend using a cooking surface thermometer or Infrared Thermometer to gauge the temperature
of the pizza stone.
Artisan Pizza - Thin Crust
1. Follow included dough recipe to prepare dough.
2. Flour surface and stretch dough ball onto table or wooden pizza peel. Stretch your dough to 1/8” thickness, 10” – 12” round.
3. Follow pizza recipe instructions to construct your pizza by adding any sauce, cheese, and toppings.
4. Using a flour-dusted pizza spatula or pizza peel, add your pizza to preheated oven (500° F - 550° F).
5. Cook 4-7 minutes or to your liking.
6. Remove pizza from oven and onto pizza peel, slice and serve.
Always be sure to turn off when finished cooking pizza
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Using Your Italia Pizza Oven