Not sure whether to buy a Conveyor Pizza Oven, Deck Oven, Countertop Pizza Oven, or Commercial Convection Oven for cooking pizzas? Let us quickly examine the differences between them. Buying an oven for pizza cooking in your restaurant is a very important decision. These ovens are not cheap, so you do not want to throw away money. Nor do you want to find that the oven that you have purchased is really not a good fit for your business needs. So one of the things that you may first like to consider is what type and style oven will fit best in your kitchen.
Deck Pizza Oven (sometimes instead of the word Deck will be the word Countertop)
The way these ovens work is that the food is heated from the base where the source of the heat is located. A deck pizza oven will typically ave a ceramic or a firebrick base. Which one you choose is a matter of preference. Some people prefer to go for the firebrick method purely for traditional reasons. You can also find the "fuel" required to heat the oven comes in a number of varieties too. You can get an oven sourced from gas or electric, or one that requires burning of wood or charcoal. Food is cooked via being placed on a shelf or you may prefer to call it, as the name suggests a deck. It is called a deck also because you can buy the oven with more than one deck. Double or Twin Deck Pizza Ovens for example are common. You can buy these ovens with up to four decks. Commonly a restaurant will have a twin deck and then either stack another twin deck on top or place it side by side. This has the advantage over a 4 deck unit that if there is a malfunction, the other unit can still be used. As you might expect by the sound of things, space considerations need to be taken into account if you will need a number of deck pizza ovens. It also helps if you have a few staff on hand if you have multiple units.
Commercial Convection Oven
A commercial convection oven works by forcing hot air through fans and circulating that air around the food - hence convection. This method of heat distribution is effective at cooking food quickly and evenly. You can find them in both gas or electric heat powered varieties. Generally either a deck, or conveyor oven is preferred for a business with a constant flow of customers that wish to eat pizza.
Conveyor Pizza Oven
A conveyor pizza oven is especially popular in small businesses, or businesses that simply do not employ much staff. This is because one of the biggest advantages of this type of oven is Its ability to eliminate much of the work that would otherwise be required by having extra staff. These ovens as the name suggests have a conveyor system built. The prepared but uncooked pizza is loaded onto the conveyor system on one end. It is transported into the core cooking unit where it is heated from the top and bottom to give it an even cooking, and then it emerges cooked at the other end. As it utilises a conveyor system, you can load up pizza after pizza. Perfect if you have a stream of customers to deal with. They are operated with either a gas or electric heating source. And the modern systems can cook each pizza within 5 minutes or less. A quick and efficient turnaround time for a busy business. These ovens can come in a freestanding countertop variety. So like the deck ovens these confusingly are also sometimes referred to as Countertop Pizza Ovens as well. If your kitchen is short on space, or your pizza cooking requirements do not require a full sized conveyor oven, you may prefer to get a smaller Conveyor Countertop Pizza Oven.
