Outdoor Backyard Oven for Making Bread and Food Hobby

Outdoor Backyard Oven for Making Bread and Food Hobby

Imagine the irresistible aroma of freshly baked bread wafting through your yard, thanks to your outdoor backyard oven, which turns simple gatherings into warm, rustic feasts.

Welcome to Belvedere Spinello, Italy, My Hometown

Welcome to my property in Italy. I own a field near my hometown of Belvedere Spinello, an agricultural area. Here, I plant seeds and grow grains to make flour. We have begun getting the field ready, starting with plowing the ground. The following method is to flatten it and then seed it.

On one side of the property, I planted a white flour called Maiorca; on the right side, I planted semolina flour called Senatore Cappelli, and I divided the field in half with a visual line. These two flowers I planted here are no longer on the market, but you can buy and plant the seeds from a lab and plant them. They are not GMO seeds or genetically modified. The seeds are original and have been used for hundreds of years. They are not used anymore because they don’t generate that much product unless you put a lot of fertilizer on them and buy them genetically modified.

The plants are now 5 to 6 inches tall. They will grow taller and fully grown and be dried by June. We will gather the grains, make flour, and import it to the United States.

Harvesting the Wheat

We harvest wheat in June when everything is mature and dry. We dump the grains into a dump truck and take them to a mill. This mill has been in my hometown for hundreds of years and has been modified to be more mechanical. This is the last process in which we turn the grains into flour before I bring it to the United States. It is an ancient system that is still in operation today.

outdoor-backyard-ovens-for-making-bread-and-food-hobby1Welcome to my oven room at the Gappsi showroom.  Let’s make some fresh homemade bread.  Today, I am using the flour grown and milled in Italy from my property.  The Maiorca flour has a white color to it, and the Semolina flour has a yellowish tint.

Let’s make some bread in my outdoor backyard oven.

First, I mixed the yeast with the new flour. Then, I will use the yeast tomorrow to make the next loaf. I will cover it and let it ferment for 24 hours. I prepared this yeast 24 hours ago and will use it to make the dough for the bread today with you.

The next step in making my bread is adding some water.  We are going to weigh some water before we add it in.  I melted the yeast with the water and added the flour. Both maiorca and semolina flour are added to the mixture. Now, I am going to add the salt. After the salt is added to the dough, it is essential to allow the dough to relax.

outdoor-backyard-ovens-for-making-bread-and-food-hobby2Once the dough has relaxed for 20 hours, we shape it into small pieces. Now, I am shaping the dough.  This is the final step, and touch before letting it rest.  I let it rest until it is time to bake.  Letting the dough rest is crucial in baking because it allows the gluten strands to relax and redistribute, making the dough easier to shape, preventing shrinkage, and ultimately resulting in a better texture and rise in the final baked good; essentially, it gives the gluten a “break” after kneading, allowing it to become more pliable and elastic.

Let’s heat the outdoor backyard oven and get it HOT for baking bread!

outdoor-backyard-ovens-for-making-bread-and-food-hobby4This outdoor wood-fired oven was custom-built in Sorrento, Italy. At Gappsi, we also provide this product and service to our clients. We can have your custom-built outdoor backyard oven hand-painted from the picture you provided. The tiles will be hand-painted and then baked to make a forever-lasting finish. This oven in the Gappsi showroom has a picture of me, Giuseppe, on one side.  This picture was taken in my niece’s orange garden in Italy. Next, I had a hat painted on the front hood of the oven, “Make Pizza Great Again.”  On the other side is a picture of my wife and I. On the back, I have pictures of my hometown, Belvedere Spinello, on the left and right. We have been using this oven to test the difference between a wood-burning oven and a gas-burn backyard outdoor oven.

Sorrento-Style Outdoor Backyard Oven

This is our Sorrento-style oven. This oven is both gas and wood-fired to heat. An oven that can be heated with both gas and wood is called a “hybrid oven” or a “dual fuel oven,” allowing you to use the convenience of gas cooking alongside the smoky flavor of wood-fired cooking, depending on your preference;

We will bake the bread when the gas burner reaches the required temperature. We usually use wood to cook food.
Once the bread is ready to be baked, I score it with a circular cut. The oven is almost ready. When the temperature has come down, we will bake the bread at 480 degrees Fahrenheit.

We are ready to bake the bread in the backyard outdoor oven!

outdoor-backyard-ovens-for-making-bread-and-food-hobby5We have baked the bread for an hour, and it is time to remove it from the oven. I use the cloth on the door to seal the door so the heat does not escape and burn. It is cooked to perfection.

This is the story of my hobby of bread making. From building ovens to making flour and then making bread. This bread will be delivered today to special people serving our country. Thank you for the time you took to watch the video and read this post. Till next time, please stop by the showroom to see us and visit our showroom.

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Outdoor Kitchen Pavilion with Pizza Oven Built in Dix Hills NY

Outdoor-Kitchen-Pavilion-with-Pizza-Oven-Built-in-Dix-Hills-NY3Gappsi completed this Outdoor Kitchen Pavilion with a Pizza Oven in Suffolk County Long Island.

Create your ideal backyard by adding all the conveniences of the indoors.  When you enhance your outdoor living area with a grill, pizza oven, kitchen island, landscape lighting, or outdoor heating you extend the time you can entertain outdoors.

Gone are the days when your friends as well as family leave your outdoor celebration because it’s getting too dark, too cold, or too rainy. When you have an outdoor pavilion with a fireplace and kitchen, your outdoor entertaining can last well into the night. Not only will the fire from the fireplace keep you warm and toasty, but it can also provide a relaxing light source for lighthearted conversation and reminisce of days gone by.

Plus, when you have an outdoor kitchen in your pavilion, you can keep the tasty food cooking throughout the night. Whether it’s burgers on the grill or pizza in your pizza oven, you can cook outdoors in a shaded structure, like a pavilion, no matter the temperature or weather.

Outdoor Kitchen Pavilion

We built this 16 x 24 A-Frame Pavilion in Dix Hills, NY. The Pavilion was a kit purchased through Country Lane Gazebos.  Each pavilion is built to order and completely customizable to your specifications.  Gappsi is a dealer for Country Lane.  They offer the highest quality, Amish-built GazeboPergola, and Pavilion Kits.  Their outdoor structures are made from durable materials, including wood, vinyl, and aluminum, and designed to withstand the elements.

Outdoor-Kitchen-Pavilion-with-Pizza-Oven-Built-in-Dix-Hills-NY2Country Lane has been in the backyard structure business since 1994. Every structure they make comes with a 10-year limited warranty and a complete satisfaction guarantee. Their structures have many different features, color options, and styles to match your home and style preferences. Country Lane Gazebos is a popular choice if you are looking for a stylish and functional outdoor structure to enhance your backyard.

Have The Outdoor Kitchen of Your Dreams

More and more, outdoor areas include a fully functional outdoor kitchen, fireplaces or fire pits, cozy seating, advanced lighting, and heating systems.  Our recent Pavilion installation included veneered columns for each post to sit on, which enhanced the overall design and aesthetics.  We added a kitchen with an island under it.  The island includes a Tan Brown Granite countertop.  This long-lasting natural granite is appropriate for a variety of indoor and outdoor applications including walls, floors, countertops, and other architectural components.  On one side the counter is raised to bar height.  A bi-level countertop invites contrast from a design perspective, which can help you achieve some visual interest in your Gappsi kitchen design. This contrast could be further emphasized by using different countertop materials for the lower and higher portions of the counter.

Fire Magic Outdoor Kitchen Appliances

The outdoor kitchen included appliances made by Fire Magic and a Summit Refrigerator.  Designed and made in the USA.  Fire Magic Grills combines high-tech features, craftsmanship, styling, & performance to create a superior outdoor kitchen.  Their true-width cooking grids offer some of the largest cooking areas by square inch in their size classes, allowing you to cook more food at once. Get a great sear every time with their stainless-steel diamond sear cooking grids, which provide more surface contact for fast and even grilling. You can create the perfect outdoor area with Fire Magic’s extensive line of grills and matching outdoor kitchen equipment.

Outdoor-Kitchen-Pavilion-with-Pizza-Oven-Built-in-Dix-Hills-NY-YouTubeAlfa 4 Pizza Wood Fired Oven

Bring home the artisan craft of wood cooking with this stellar oven designed to trap the heat and full flavor of burning wood, creating unforgettable pizzas and more.  We piped through the roof with the insulator pipe to add the Alfa 4 Pizze Wood Countertop Pizza Oven.

Alfa 4 Pizze Wood Fired Oven Features

Ceramic fiber insulation maintains long-lasting warmth and cuts down wood consumption to a minimum. Fitted with extremely useful stainless steel lateral shelves to place oven trays, ingredients, oven dishes, and necessary cooking accessories on. With the built-in peel holder, necessary utensils for wood-fired cooking are always within hand’s reach.

  • The oven floor is made of interchangeable refractory tiles. 3 cm thick, designed to store heat and convey it to food for cooking.
  • Wood-fired ovens with stainless steel domes were studied to reach high temperatures while consuming very little wood.
  • Ceramic fiber insulation ensures long-lasting warmth inside the oven.
  • The oven is fitted with a pyrometer. Hence, the cooking chamber’s mean temperature can be seen at a glance.
  • The large door has a double ergonomic wooden handle for a firm grip. The oven draught can be regulated by moving the door.
  • The built-in rear castors allow moving the wood-fired oven to easily and quickly place it wherever you wish.
  • It comes with a convenient peel holder to store the tools required for cooking on a wood fire.

Outdoor-Kitchen-Pavilion-with-Pizza-Oven-Built-in-Dix-Hills-NYTravertine Flooring and Veneers

We utilized G035 Fiorito Travertine from the Gappsi Natural Stone Collection for the floor.  In addition, we used G035 Fiorito Travertine for the veneers on the outdoor kitchen, fireplace, and columns for the Pavilion posts to sit on.

The inside of the pavilion is left open showing the barewood stained with mahogany color with custom chandeliers. The fireplace is wood-burning and veneered with Fiorito Travertine selected from the Gappsi Natural Stone Collection.

This is a very beautiful layout and is useful for sunny or rainy days.  It offers an all-year-round cooking area plus a hang-out place. This is the latest pavilion built by Gappsi in Dix Hills NY. 

Gappsi is now offering a complete Outdoor Living selection in our showroom designed to fit your home, budget, and entertainment needs.

  • Kitchen islands
  • Grills
  • Pizza Ovens
  • Outdoor Lighting
  • Gazebos, Pergolas, Pavilions
  • Outdoor heating – Fire Pit
  • Outdoor Furniture

At Gappsi we value family. We are here to help you create a unique outdoor living space that you can enjoy with your family for years to come.  Give a call today at 631-543-1177

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Italian Clay Bricks In Pizza Ovens Handmade

Italian Clay Bricks In Pizza Ovens

Italian Clay Bricks In Pizza Ovens have been around for centuries, and for good reason because they produce uniquely spectacular pizzas. It is much more than a pizza oven. Gappsi Brick Ovens open up a wonderfully savory world of open hearth cooking, including meats, fish, vegetables, bread, and even desserts. Crafted with an artisan’s soul, a passion for detail, and unmatched customer service, Gappsi sets the industry standard for performance, practicality, and longevity for Outdoor Ovens.

What Makes Brick Oven Pizzas Special?

Neopolitan-style pizzas are special. The crust is crisp and flecked with tell-tale charred spots, evidence of being baked in an extremely hot oven. The interior of the dough is soft, elastic, tender, and fragrant, and the toppings are cooked to perfection.

Achieving the perfect pizza is not easy! The pizza pros usually use brick ovens that heat from 625ºF – 700ºF.

For perfect pizza, the cook must balance the two so that the dough and the toppings finish cooking at the same time. For that, they need to get the oven temperature right.  The Roman pizzaiolos (pizza bakers) used the high temperature, combined with the thermodynamic properties of the bricks. The vaulted cavity of the brick oven and the thick layer of bricks at the bottom of the oven guarantees even heating of the pizza. Brick ovens are ideal because the crust heats at a high but reasonable temperature giving the toppings enough time to properly cook.  This combination adds to the secret of the perfect pizza.

Italian Clay Bricks In Pizza

Italian Clay Bricks In Pizza Ovens Floors

The clay is one of the most important parts of making the brick and if your clay isn’t of high quality, there’s no way your pizza oven is going to be high quality.  The video below it shows the floor of the pizza oven and how the Artisian makes it using the traditional mixer.  This machine mixes the clay gathered locally in the region of Sorrento Italy.  The Clay is rich soil with volcanic pumice and silicon, a particular characteristic beneath Sorrento’s famed citrus orchards.  An oven base needs to be porous.  The pours help to warm up early and maintain the heat for a long time, releasing this heat evenly.

This is an old manufacturer that has been around for hundreds of years in Italy.  Time and tradition keep with each generation.  as the clay is mixed and poured to make the brick.

A wood mold is placed on top of a platform and the clay is spread by hand.  Simply spreading the clay by hand and not pressing it creates a more spongy finished product.  The bricks can absorb the heat and release the heat slowly. The clay is found locally and has been used for hundreds of years too.  Gappsi Italian Clay Bricks is not a product you can mass produce, the clay is being excavated locally in Sorrento Italy, and poured by hand for your next Italian Pizza Oven Order.

A Real Master Piece and Italian Art In Your Home!

The Amalfi Oven

We design Gappsi Brick Ovens using a machine made in the most traditional way. The techniques used are no longer around or followed by any other manufacturer that makes bricks or pizza ovens. Smoothing out the top surface is what makes the stone denser on the surface. You are talking about something made by hand; a real piece of Italian Art. Here it is!  And it can be YOURS. We prepare each brick in the same way; it is a dying art. To make each stone you literally have to feel the product as you make it. Craftsmen that create these particular bricks have a passion for the trade and understand a very old method of producing a brick oven. Every brick made for a Gappsi customer oven has this much care in producing it!

Become inspired and learn how to use your wood-fired oven in a demonstration event at the Gappsi Showroom.  Signup to be notified of our next event.  

Wood | Gas Fired Pizza Ovens

The difference between Biscotto di Sorrento and other types of brick materials on the market is that it does not burn the bottom of a pizza, absorbing moisture from the dough.

Gappsi Artisan strictly follows the ancient tradition of manufacturing:

  • Manual extraction of the clay.
  • Mix clay using water, grinders, and mixers
  • Form clay into different molds: bricks or floor bases.
  • Dried for 3 days in molds
  • Dried for 10 days in a stacked position
  • Clay bricks turn light grey after we fire them in the kiln.
  • Dried for 7 more days
  • The natural firing phase.

This involves the continuous burning of wood for seven hours. Then, after four days of baking the bricks are ready and have acquired a natural red color.

The unique flavor of brick oven pizza can cause any foodie to wish that they owned a brick oven of their own. Not only are they useful, but brick ovens also add elegance to any outdoor living area.

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Our showroom display includes the most beautiful as well as unique imported natural stones for patios, walkways, and driveways.

We provide services in Nassau and Suffolk County.  Glen Cove, Hempstead, North Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Babylon, Huntington, Islip. Commack, Kings Park, Quoque, Commack, and Smithtown. Brookhaven, Southampton, Riverhead, East Hampton, Southold, Old Brookville, Old Westbury. and Mill Neck, Nissequogue, Lloyd Harbor, Muttontown, Coldspring Harbor, and East Norwich.  Gappsi’s knowledgeable and experienced personnel can help you create the yard of your dreams!

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Custom Outdoor Kitchen Island: Smithtown 11787, installed by Gappsi

Custom Outdoor Kitchen Island: Smithtown 11787, installed by GappsiThis outdoor kitchen was built in a U shape layout. It incorporates many amenities such as twin eagle appliances, pizza oven, outdoor refrigerator, ice makers, cook top and a bar sink. The colorful out door lighting creates a inviting atmosphere for friends and family. The shell was veneered with Fiorito veneer travertine selected from the Gappsi natural stone collection. The vinyl, free form pool incorporates a wall with sheer descends. The backyard was designed with a deck and paving stone patio. Designed by Giuseppe Abbrancati and installed by Gappsi.
Follow the link to watch the sealing process of this property: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AxegvJ4uRk
Gappsi provides masonry and outdoor kitchen installation in both Nassau and Suffolk county on Long Island NY.

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