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Lighting your Wood Fired Oven
Below is the correct curing and lighting procedures for a Zesti Woodfired Oven. The
refractory dome which is the internal element of the oven which absorbs the radiant
heat from a wood fire comes to you in a green uncured state.
Close attention and care must be taken when following these instructions or the
warranty will be none and void on the product and at no time must it be lit differently.
Before lighting your Zesti Oven for the first time make sure that the floor of the oven has
been swept and vacuumed to remove any residue left from the installation process.
1)
Light a small kindling fire in the mouth of the oven, just off the front Stainless
Steel protective plate. (Not on the Stainless Steel plate)
2)
Place a piece of dry , natural, hard wood (not from a building site) with a length
of 250mm and a thickness of 80mm, length ways into the mouth of the oven
front to back.
3)
Place 3 firelighters hard up against the piece of wood in a row on one side only.
4)
Place finer kindling with a length of 200mm with a thickness of no more than
40mm, as a roof over the firelighters from the main piece of wood to the brick
hearth of the oven.
5)
Light the firelighters and allow the kindling to take light and burn well with a
cracking sound.
6)
With your pizza peel, slowly push the kindling fire to the fourth and fifth row of
bricks, starting the count from the first row of exposed bricks after the Stainless
Steel protective plate.
Great care must be taken not to leave the kindling fire in
the starting position for a great length of time, as this will only cause
discolouration to your feature stainless steel arch and flue and can cause pre-
mature cracking on the front of the refractory dome, due to uneven heating
during the light-up process.
