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How To Clean Your Pizza Oven Right

We gathered the best tips on cleaning your pizza oven and compiled it together into this article

Mark Hoffman

Managing Editor At Ovenreview.co.uk

July 8th, 2022

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There are a lot of different ways you can clean your oven thoroughly in 2022. In this article we will go over all the tips and tricks you can use to clean your pizza ovens, whether they are outside, in your kitchen or at your work place.

To some of you, cleaning your pizza oven may be standard procedure. But if you’re not in the loop, let us guide you in finding the best way to sparkle your ovens.

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How to clean your pizza oven?

Your outdoor pizza oven is more than likely the delight of your backyard. But more often than not your pizza oven can become incredibly dirty after everyday/every week use. Thanks to the extremely hot cooking temperatures it is more likely your tomato sauce and slice of pepperoni will burn off rather than sticking to the inside of your oven.

You do not need to clean your outside pizza oven like you clean your inside kitchen ovens. Scraping away the ash and scrubbing the sides with a metal brush is efficient enough for cleaning an outside pizza oven.

We have put together this simple 5-step guide for your wood-fired ovens.

How to clean a wood-fired pizza oven?

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A wood fired pizza oven is typically the easiest to clean because of it’s high cooking temperature. You will need just basic garden items, like a bucket, metal/wire brush, a shovel and a rake. Cleaning your pizza oven will take less than 5 minutes, and it’s good to make tis practise at least one a week.

What tools do I need to clean my outdoor pizza oven?

Simple tools can be used to clean an outdoor pizza oven, these tools will be fine:

Ash Rake – here is one we found on Amazon.co.uk
Ash Can – here is one we found on Amazon.co.uk
Metal brush or oven brass brush – here is one we found on Amazon.co.uk
Fire place metal shovel or a normal shovel – here is one we found on Amazon.co.uk

Make sure to read the packaging of the products before attempting the clean, Ovenreview.co.uk is not responsible for any damages

Our 5 step cleaning guide

Step 1

Gather the ash

Wait until the pizza oven is cooled. We recommend at least 12 hours to 1 day after before starting the clean.
Simply start to scrape away all the ash into your metal ash bucket until the base is clean.

Step 2

Clear out the ash

Scrape out the ash from your pizza oven and put it into your disposable ash can.
Do not worry if you can’t get all of it out but cleaning regularly will make your pizza oven burn better.

Step 3

Scrape off the burnt food

After removing the ash, you should look for the food or other stains on the inside of your oven. Although most foods will be burnt off some harder stains my still be there.
You can use your metal wire pizza oven brush to start scraping
This is the highest rated metal brush on Amazon.co.uk or similar items will also work.

Step 4

Last scrape out

Give the oven a last sweep around with the brush and take out any particles of dust with the ash rake or shovel.

Step 5

To finish

To finish cleaning out your pizza oven give it a last wipe down with a wet cloth on the stones ready for your next pizza.
You could even use white vinegar to clean the area but this is not always necessarily

What should I know about before getting a pizza oven?

Before getting a pizza oven you should think about 5 main things. How much space you have available, the amount of pizza you want to cook, the design and materials, the cost and the different fuel options.

The amount of space you have
Amount of pizza wanting to cook
The design and materials
The cost
The fuel options

Pizza ovens can effect the taste of your pizza, whether you fuel with coal, wood or gas. This will also effect the way your pizza tastes. The amount of space you have is also extremely important, wood fueled pizza ovens are typically the biggest at around 2m x 2m with a wood storage. This cost of these machines can also be very expensive. Here is an article on alternatives to large stone pizza ovens.

What now?

Now you know cleaning your pizza oven is a simple task and can be done within 10 minutes. Check out other reviews on how to clean your BBQ ovens and kitchen ovens throughly and properly.

We also recommending checking out other articles like which best pizza oven to buy in 2022.

Mark Hoffman

Managing Editor At Ovenreview.co.uk

Mark Hoffman has worked as a freelancer and writer for several years. Reviewing ovens, washing machines and any other household items he can get his hands on. When he’s not sitting in-front of a computer he enjoys cycling, climbing and volunteering at charitable health organisations.