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Pizza Oven Cranks up to 1000 F. +

Everybody knows that to cook great pizza, you need a hot oven. The hotter the better. My electric stove at home is barely nudging up to 550 F. +, give or take a few degrees. I recently got an email from someone who claims his pizza ovens will heat up to 1,000 F. Now we're talking! Now we're taking. His name is Willard Gustavsen and here is what he had to say" Albert: Have you been making pizza long? Willard: I started baking my own pizza 5-6 years ago, but I didn’t start making my own dough until a couple of years ago. I would buy the unbaked pizzas from the local pizzeria and bake it myself in a make shift wood-fired oven, and finally took the plunge a couple of years ago and started making my own dough and sauce. Albert: How did you come about to develop your pizza grill?Tell me about the process... Willard: As a kid growing up my dad would bring home pizza from an Italian pizzeria that had a wood-fired oven. It had that special taste that I came to associate with wood ...