ABOUT THE PIZZA DOME
When you use just a pizza stone to cook pizza, most of the cooking takes place from the bottom up. Insert the Pizza Dome into your oven, though, and the curve of the Dome creates a 'lens effects', concentrating the oven's heat under the Dome and toward the pizza. This allows the pizza to cook quickly and evenly from the top and the bottom, leaving you with a perfectly charred, brick oven quality pie.
Designed and tested by one of the world's most passionate pizza pundits:
I was unsatisfied with the quality of the pies coming out of my home oven. So, I've spent the last 20 years trying to master the food I'm most passionate about: pizza. I perfected the dough, I perfected the topping ratios. I tried every type of stone, every kind of tile, and I tried many ovens on every oven setting. No matter what, I simply couldn't perfect the cooking process. The heat limitation of my oven was the only thing stopping me from making truly great pizzas. I was determined to address the problem and find a solution. The Pizza Dome naturally evolved over this journey and now I'm ecstatic to share it with you! Whether you're a pizza connoisseur, an amateur, a world-renowned chef, or simply a person who can enjoy a slice, the PD will greatly enhance the quality of your home-cooked foods.
- Jeff S. co-founder
The lensing effect caused by the Dome shape forms a smaller space for air circulation above the pizza, making a sort of oven inside of an oven. This allows for the pizza to get hotter than it ever would have been able to without the Pizza Dome. A setting of 500 to 550° in an oven using the PD will produce a temperature of 700 to 750° just under the Dome.
Air circulates quickly and easily in the standard structure of an oven because there is more space and thus temperature differences to drive the motion. The Dome utilizes slow convection by safely reducing/constricting the space available for air flow.
When not assembled, the dome breaks down into two flat panels, making it easy to store. But, who are we kidding? Once you experience the best homemade pizza you've ever concocted, you'll never put it away! We haven't stopped using it and it has been nearly 4 years since we began testing with our prototype!
