FORNO CLASSICO WOOD FIRED OVEN in Goleta, CA Open now

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  February 14, 2020, by Frank Paolino
  Our first attempt at Pizza making was surprisingly successful. The reward was much more than getting to play with fire and make good food...it was countless hours spent laughing and sharing stories in front of the Pizza Oven, and getting together with our friends and family to enjoy what we've made with our bare hands. Fire is an essential and critical part of the pizza making process. Each oven firing takes over an hour to heat the bricks to about 800 degrees, which is the ideal temperature for cooking Pizza in about 2 minutes. The soot from the previous firing starts to burns off after about 30 minutes, starting at the top of the oven and working its way down the sides, exposing the red brick. This is known as the "bloom" and it tells you the oven is hot. Giuseppe Crisa, oven maker at Forno Classico, makes a wonderful oven, perhaps the best oven. He delivered it to Santa Barbara with a crane. His oven is a work of art, but also a workhorse, too. We have fired it over 100 times, with hundreds of guests enjoying good food and the pleasure of hand made pizza pies.