Coal-fired pizza
Coal-fired pizza is a pizza style in the United States. New York-style pizza and New Haven-style pizza are often cooked in coal-fired pizza ovens. A coal-fired oven can reach 900 °F (482 °C) and cook a pie in two to three or five minutes.[1][2]
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Pizzerias outside of the Northeastern United States that feature coal-fired ovens are uncommon enough to be noted in travel guides: for instance, Black Sheep Pizza with the first coal-fired oven in Minneapolis,[3] or URBN in San Diego.[4] As of 2007, coal-fired ovens were quite uncommon in the Western United States with only five west of the Mississippi: four in an Arizona chain and one more in Las Vegas.[5]
Coal Fire Oven has now opened up in Windsor, Ontario, Canada as the only oven in Eastern Canada. It is renowned for their coal fire pizza and wings - The Chelsea Coal Fire Pizza. They are now doing coal fire frozen pizzas too.
The growing popularity of coal-fired pizza in the 2010s was identified as a major market for anthracite coal suppliers, most of whom are in Pennsylvania's Coal Region, who generally see a declining market due to alternate industrial and home heating fuel sources.[6]
Health concerns
Concerns have been raised about particulates, sulfur dioxide and CO2 emissions from coal-fired pizza ovens.[7]
Gallery
New Haven-style pizza cooked in a coal-fired oven at Sally's Apizza
References
- "Interest in coal-fired ovens heats up", Pizza Marketplace, Networld Media, May 4, 2009
- Anya LITVAK, "Pennsylvania's tiny anthracite coal industry finds a specialty: pizza oven fuel", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Cornell, Tricia (2016). Moon Minneapolis & St. Paul. Moon Publications. Avalon Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-63121-273-4.
- Fodor's California 2015. Fodor's. 2014. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-8041-4298-4.
- Adam KUBAN (November 2007), Coal-Oven Pizzerias Nationwide, Serious Eats
- Mario Parker and Leslie Patton (September 22, 2015), "Coal's Carving Itself a Bigger Slice of America's Pizza Market", Bloomberg BusinessCS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- Umbra Frisk (November 24, 2014), "Should I feel guilty about eating coal-fired pizza?", Grist