5 Weeknight Dishes You Can Cook in a Pizza Oven Besides Pizza
A pizza oven has a reputation as a weekend appliance, fired up for a gathering and a stack of dough balls. That undersells it. The same intense, radiant heat that blisters a crust in 90 seconds also roasts vegetables, sears fish, and bakes bread quickly. Used this way, a pizza oven can shorten a weeknight dinner instead of complicating it. Compared with conventional ovens, a pizza oven heats from the dome and the floor, which means food browns fast and cooks evenly when the heat is managed well. The five dishes below suit a Tuesday as much as a Saturday. A quick note on heat Most of these dishes need a lower temperature than pizza. After the fire has burned for a while, let the flames settle and the oven floor come down to roughly 400 to 500°F (200 to 260°C) for roasting. An infrared thermometer is the easiest way to check the floor and dome. Oven models, fuel types, and weather all change how fast an oven heats and cools, so treat the times below as starting points and check...
