Pizza oven deck
AssigneeThe Garland Group
InventorRichard John Korinchock
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Abstract
A pizza oven that has an air curtain or air wash along the bottom of the cooking stones that reduces heat transfer from the burners to the stones during idle modes to thereby prevent over heating and burning of pizza bottoms during an ensuing cooking mode. The heating stones are situated on a plurality of bosses that extend from a base plate disposed between the burner flame and the stones. The air curtain extends along a gap between the bottom surface of the stones and the upper surface of the base plate.
Claims16
A pizza oven having an oven chamber with at least one cooking stone disposed therein for cooking pizza, said pizza oven comprising:
- a heater disposed below said stone to heat said stone for cooking pizza;
- a ductwork disposed in said oven to supply a heated airflow to a region above said stone so as to provide heat for top cooking;
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- a base structure that includes a base plate located between said heater and said stone, that supports said stone above said base plate by a gap, forming a continuous passageway and that communicates with said ductwork via said continuous passageway to direct some of said heated airflow through said gap along a bottom surface of said stone.
A method of heating at least one cooking stone in a pizza oven, said method comprising:
- (a) operating a heating burner with a high flame during a cook mode to heat said cooking stone;
- (b) operating said heating burner with a low flame during an idle mode;
- (c) directing a heated airflow during step (a) to heat a region above said stone to a top cooking temperature;
- (d) throttling said heating burner during steps (a) and (b) to regulate said top cooking temperature;
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- (e) directing a portion of said heated airflow during step (b) via a continuous passageway formed between a bottom surface of said stone and a top surface of a base plate disposed between said stone and said heating burner, thereby reducing heat transfer from said low flame to said stone and preventing overcooking or under cooking of a bottom of a pizza during an ensuing cook mode.
A pizza oven that is operable in a cook mode and an idle mode comprising:
- an oven chamber and at least one cooking stone disposed therein;
- a heater disposed below said cooking stone that provides high heat during said cook mode and low heat during said idle mode;
- a ductwork disposed to provide heated air that flows to a region above said stone so as to provide heat for top cooking;
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- a base stricture that includes at least one base plate located between said cooking stone and said heater so as to define a continuous passageway between a bottom surface of said stone and said base plate, wherein said continuous passageway has a first opening adjacent an edge of said stone and a second opening remote from said first opening, and wherein a portion of said heated air flows through said second opening along said continuous passageway and out of said first opening so as to reduce heat transfer from said burner to said stone during said idle mode and prevent said stone from overheating during said idle mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.