Pizza cooking time varies, but generally the larger the pizza, the longer the cooking time. With some oven types, manufacturers may advertise a five-minute baking time, but only a small, thin pizza cooks that quickly. To produce a quality pizza, a pizza oven must be properly maintained and cleaned. This saves operating costs and energy. Baked on pizza sauce, cheese, meat, and vegetables block efficient heat transfer to the pizza.
Some pizza ovens produce a lot of kitchen heat.
The greater this heat, the greater the amount of ventilation air that is required to remove the heat load from the kitchen area. This document is Fact Sheet EES-137, a series of the Florida Energy Extension Service, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. The Florida Energy Extension Service receives funding from the Florida Energy Office, Department of Community Affairs and is operated by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences through the Cooperative Extension Service. The information contained herein is the product of the Florida Energy Extension Service and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Florida Energy Office.