The Art of Wood-Fired Cooking

This is truly a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. We just finished building our pizza Oven and needed help in learning how to operate it to make the best pizzas. This book gives great directions and has helped us tremendously besides having many recipes and tips.

Book looks cool. Has a lot of recipes. Literally only 7 pages of info on how to fire and control the temperature of your oven. Spent 20 bucks on a Google search.

The growing interest in wood-fired brick ovens has led to a number of books about these wonderful ovens. As a brick oven owner, I have purchased a number of them and Andrea Mugnaini's is one of the best. As with other books in this field, it is beautifully illustrated and comes complete with recipes for pizza, bread, meat, seafood and other foods. What sets this book apart for me is the pizza recipe which I have used twice and found it to be outstanding. I did wonder why the recipe listed ingredients by volume rather than by metric weight which is the growing custom, but nevertheless, the results were superb. Quibbles? It would be helpful to have the pizza recipe placed before the technique for making the dough. Also, some text, a small portion, is in yellow Another color would be less annoying and more legible. Would I add anything? Yes, a DVD with Andrea demonstrating how to make pizza. We can't all get out to her cooking school. I highly recommend this book.

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I finished building my wood fired oven this summer and have been exploring the limited books written on using them. I've bought or borrowed every book I can find on the topic and this one's the best. From starting a fire, heating the oven, to the excellent recipes, this book explains how to use the oven in careful and easy to follow instructions. Explains the various levels of fire/ heat and their uses. Best explanation of how to pull a pizza dough of any of the multiple WFO and pizza books I've read. Great variety of recipes to get you started.If you've invested in a wood fired oven, you're obviously going to want a few books on how to use it. Be sure to include this one.

The title should have been "The Art of Wood Fired OVEN Cooking", because all the recipes are for a specific form of outdoor oven. That said, it is a good overview of that specific topic. While I bought this thinking I would learn more about using dutch ovens, spits, foil packets and the like, it has inspired me to get a wood-fired oven and try cooking with it. The author clearly made an effort to not use any saleswoman-ship of her own line of ovens, so this book stands on its own pretty well.

This is the best cookbook for pizza ovens. It has excellent instructions on where to orient the wood fire for different applications of cooking and suggests cookware that can stand the extreme heat of the oven. The recipes are enticing. The company makes a pizza oven that is the best on the market, none other can surpass what they make.

We built a wood-fired oven on our terrace and needed the basics on how to fire it up, maintain the heat and all the how-to's of using it. This book gives you that and a lot more. It's full of great photos and easy to read science of cooking with wood. The recipes we've used from it have been excellent and we have many more to try. When you pick it up you'll drag it outside and start building a fire to get started. It's THAT good. Enjoy.

Having recently bought a wood fired oven, I was keen to understand how best to use it and to get some inspirational recipies. This book delivered in full. Its well illustrated and the recipies are easy to follow. IT's become a summer favourite of mine

If you just buy this book just for the information on ovens, how to fire them up and maintain heat, it will be money well spent. The colour pictures give you a good indication of where heat is in relation to the fire. Don't worry about the recipes, you can cook any thing in these ovens, i just wacked out some mini roast potatoes in mine.

A good explanation on how to use a wood fired oven with recipes covering a great range of ideas

Bought as a gift and my son was delighted with it,but rather American in style of recipes.

Brilliant book for pizza oven owners.Covers every aspect of using a pizza oven and lots of tasty recipes.