Vegetarian restaurant eaters

Don't settle for those pre-made pizzas from the grocery store. Visit your local Italian restaurant to experience the authentic taste of wood-fired pizza. This article will go over why wood-fired pizza tastes better than the frozen or mass-produced kind. Read on to find out more.

Wood-fired pizzas are not only a trend but an art form that has been around for generations, dating back to Naples, Italy in the 18th century. The taste of wood-fired pizza isn't something that you can put your finger on -- it's unique and otherworldly in flavour. It's not just the sauce or the cheese but also the wood in the fire that gives it such amazingly deep flavours.

How the dough is prepared

The process of making wood-fired pizza includes hand tossing and getting the right amount of heat from a wood-fired oven to produce a crispy on the outside and soft on the inside crust. A traditional Neapolitan pizza is usually small, thin and round. The dough should be airy, but not light and fluffy. In some restaurants, you can actually watch as you order a wood-fired pizza how they stretch out a ball of dough by hand and toss it into an oven that has very intense heat.

Frozen pizzas are made using pre-prepared bases which have often been produced on mass in a factory. While they have a uniform size and shape, this actually has a negative impact on how they taste.

Wood-fired vs frozen pizza

The dough of a wood-fired pizza has a very quick cooking time because the fresh dough is very elastic, due to the gluten. Wood-fired ovens also contain brick for extra heat retention, which is necessary to produce good pizza. The wood-fired pizza oven heats to extremely high temperatures, which allows for complete caramelisation and crispy edges while leaving the inside soft.

This differs from mass-produced frozen pizzas that are made with low-gluten yeast. The process of making mass-produced pizzas uses lower levels of heat and slower cooking times to avoid having a dough that becomes too airy. Frozen pizzas are also made with yeast and flour, but they are baked at lower temperatures with longer cook times to keep the product consistent.

A traditional wood-fired pizza is one of those things that is so amazing that you just have to try it. Go to a local restaurant or pizzeria and order a wood-fired pizza today.