In summer, the wood-fired ovens are fired continuously to enjoy our outdoor spaces with family and friends. But, although its use and enjoyment is simple and does not pose major risks, it is important that you know certain safety guidelines to avoid any minimum risk. At the end of the day, it is with fire that we are playing 😉
The safety measures with a wood oven are basic and easy to follow:
The biggest risk you can run with a wood oven are burns, since its interior reaches high temperatures and special care must be taken both when we open the door, and when we handle any object, accessory or food that comes directly from inside.
What measures do we have to take to avoid getting burned?
1. Avoid touching the doors directly
The doors of wood-fired ovens are made of metal, cast iron or sheet metal, so they are very good conductors of heat and, therefore, if you touch them, they burn. Therefore, the first step is to avoid touching the oven door with your hands directly. For this, help yourself with a cloth or, better, use special gloves prepared for high temperatures. In our online store you will find several models of oven gloves, which will adapt to your needs.
2. Use special gloves for high temperatures
This point, which is related to the previous one, is one of the most important. There are special oven gloves that adapt perfectly to your hands, they are comfortable and because of their composition they isolate us from the temperature. There are simpler ones to handle the oven, and more protected to handle the pans and be able to take them from the oven to the table without the temperature affecting us. Therefore, having gloves to handle your wood oven and food is essential if you want to facilitate any task around it. Enter our online store and discover our different models that respond to different types of needs. You can get yours from € 15!
3. Help yourself with shovels and other oven utensils
In addition to handling objects with our hands, we also have to place the pans and food inside for a more optimal cooking and, in this case, we cannot insert our hands, even if we are wearing gloves. For this, it is advisable to help you with shovels or special hooks for ovens, which are deep enough so that we can move the objects and embers inside, without the risk of burning ourselves.
Buying a set of blades for wood burning ovens is a great help and there are blades for multiple uses. A highly recommended purchase that, in our online store, has become one of the most popular. We invite you to discover our catalog of blades for wood-fired ovens on our website: https://hornosdelena.com/19-palas
4. Be careful when opening the door
One of the most common situations comes when we open the oven door and a great heat stroke comes to our faces. At this time you have to be careful, therefore, it is advisable to turn the door a little so that the heat comes out a little and, carefully, gradually open the door to avoid getting burned, always being careful, not to bring your face too close at the exit of the heat.
5. Control the temperature with the help of a pyrometer
Excess heat should not be avoided just to avoid burning ourselves, it is also important to control the temperature inside the wood oven so that the food does not burn and, most importantly, comes out just right.
For this, it is recommended that you control the temperature with the help of a pyrometer, basic to reach the desired and ideal temperature for cooking our recipes.
6. Separate the embers from the food
One tip to ensure that the food comes out perfectly is to separate the embers from the food to protect your roast from direct heat and thus allow a more homogeneous cooking. For this, at hornosdeleña.com we have our refractory screens, which are in charge of keeping the embers on one side of the inside of the oven, thus better distributing the heat, and allowing a correct cooking for a result of 10 in our recipes.
Our refractory screens are a product patented by Hornosdeleña.com and it is unique in the market. If you wish, you can get yours, from 20 euros, in our online store. You have 4 sizes to choose from. We hope that these 6 tips will help you to enhance your good experience with our wood-fired ovens and, above all, with the best results. Your wood oven is here to enjoy it, take these simple measures and get the most out of it!