Kalamazoo AFPO-BLK-LP, Use And Care Manual

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Cooking with Your Pizza Oven
IMPORTANT: The Artisan Fire Pizza Oven is a high-performance piece of
equipment that gets very hot. Use caution when working with the oven and do
not leave the oven unattended. Use insulated gloves with a long cuff to protect
your hands and forearms from heat.
Essential Equipment
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Leather insulated gloves with long cuffs to protect your hands and forearms.
„ Long-handled brass brush, preferably “push broom” style, for cleaning the cooking deck
„ Heat-resistant pizza peels for transferring pizzas into the oven and rotating pizzas while cooking
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Aluminum pizza screen to slow down the cooking of the crust when needed
Check out Kalamazoo’s Pizza Master’s Essentials Kit for the best pizza peels available
(see page 58).
Other Helpful Accessories
„ Dough divider/scraper
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Large-diameter pizza cutting wheel
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Heavy-gauge deep dish pizza pan
„ Cast iron skillet and/or fajita pans
„ Digital scale
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Artisan Fire Pizza Oven Cover
Preheating
The Artisan Fire Pizza Oven is ready to cook in as little as 20 minutes, however,
we recommend at least 45 minutes of preheating for optimum performance.
IMPORTANT: Before cooking, become familiar with all the information in
this Use and Care Guide regarding safe operation of your pizza oven.
IMPORTANT: Always remove the door before operating the pizza oven.
The door is for use only when the pizza oven is OFF. It is not intended
for cooking. It is intended only for keeping foreign objects out of the
oven when it is not in use..