Steel Flame Bar Mod. 2 Pizzas

Alfonso Forni Flame Bar: Protection, Perfection and Cleanliness for Your Wood-Fired Pizza

Turn every cooking session in your Alfonso Forni wood-fired oven into an impeccable experience with the Steel Flame Guard Bar Model 2 Pizzas. Designed to integrate perfectly with Alfonso Forni's direct fired ovens, this accessory is ideal for compacting the embers while protecting your culinary creations from the open flame, ensuring pizzas, breads and roasts are cooked to perfection, every time. The aim is to free you from the worry of burnt edges, allowing you to enjoy full control over your baking. The flame guard bar is an essential element for anyone seeking to raise the quality of their wood-fired cooking.

Key Benefits: The Revolution in Your Wood-Burning Cooking

The Alfonso Forni flame guard bar is not simply an additional accessory, but a true ally that elevates the wood-burning cooking experience, offering concrete advantages and significantly improving oven performance. Its design is geared towards solving common problems and optimising the use of the oven, transforming food preparation into a more efficient and rewarding process.

• Impeccable Protection from Direct Flame: This accessory allows you to say goodbye to burnt frames and blackened bases, a frequent problem in open-flame cooking. The bar creates an essential physical barrier between the food and the flame, allowing you to cook at high temperatures, typical of pizza, without the risk of charring the edges. This means that the intense heat of the oven can be exploited to the full for fast and even cooking, without compromising the aesthetics and flavour of the food.
  
  
• Uniform and Controlled Cooking: The flame bar is designed to deflect and distribute heat in a more controlled manner within the cooking chamber. This function ensures even cooking across the entire surface of the pizza, bread or roast, avoiding overcooked or raw spots. You can keep the flame higher, achieving optimal cooking temperatures, while the bar manages the heat flow, ensuring consistently perfect results and an ideal Maillard reaction on the food surface.

• Maximising Useful Oven Space: By effectively separating the embers and wood from the main cooking area, the flame guard bar frees up valuable space on the refractory floor. This is particularly advantageous for smaller ovens, such as our Alfonso 2 Pizze, where every centimetre is precious. The greater area available makes it easier to manoeuvre food, cook several items at once or prepare larger pizzas with ease, optimising the efficiency of the Alfonso Forni oven.

• Maintaining Cleanliness of the Cooking Surface: The bar acts as a physical barrier, preventing ash, small wood residues and sparks from scattering on the cooking surface. This not only makes the post-firing cleaning process considerably easier and faster, but also helps to prolong the life of the refractory bricks, keeping them in optimal condition and reducing wear caused by direct contact with combustion residues.

• Increased Safety: By containing embers and flame in a defined and controlled area, the bar significantly reduces the risk of sparks or accidental fire movement inside the kiln. This feature provides greater peace of mind when using the oven, allowing the cook to concentrate on food preparation without worrying about handling the open flame.
  
  

Specific Features: Design and Materials of Excellence

The Alfonso Forni Flame Guard Bar is designed for durability and optimal performance, thanks to first-class technical features that guarantee its effectiveness and reliability.

• Premium Material: The bar is made entirely of high quality stainless steel, specifically AISI 304. This choice is no coincidence, as AISI 304 steel is renowned for its extraordinary resistance to corrosion, oxidation and, above all, the very high temperatures typical of wood-fired ovens. Unlike less performing materials that may deform or deteriorate rapidly under thermal stress, stainless steel retains its structural integrity and hygienic properties even after countless uses, being a safe and easy-to-clean food grade material.
• Specific Design for 2-Pizza Ovens: With dimensions of 40x10 H 12 cm, the bar is perfectly calibrated for the Alfonso Forni 2 Pizze oven. This dimensional precision ensures optimal integration within the cooking chamber, guaranteeing that the bar performs its flame management function efficiently and without obstructing the baking or oven operations.

• Perforated Structure: The perforated surface of the bar is not a mere aesthetic detail, but a crucial functional feature. This perforation is designed to allow adequate ventilation of the flame, essential for efficient and controlled combustion. By allowing oxygen to pass through in a regulated manner, excessive soot build-up is prevented and a cleaner, more stable flame is promoted, resulting in better baking quality and less oven maintenance.
  
  

An Investment that Lasts

Purchasing the Flame Guard Bar means making an investment that protects not only your pizza from burning, but also the valuable Alfonso Forni oven itself. Its robustness and longevity guarantee years of perfect, worry-free cooking, reducing the need for frequent replacement and ensuring that the oven remains a focal point of excellence in the domestic or professional kitchen. This accessory is an ideal complement to maintain the oven's performance over the long term, reflecting Alfonso Forni's philosophy of offering products that are a true "lasting investment.

Frequently Asked Questions / Usage Tips

To get the most out of the Flame Guard Bar and ensure its long life, it is useful to follow some practical tips that optimise its effectiveness and maintenance.

• Where to place the flame arrester?
  

  The Flameguard Bar is designed to be placed strategically inside the cooking chamber of the direct fired oven. The ideal location is between the flame/brace and the area where the food will be cooked. Its primary purpose is to contain the wood and embers, separating them from the food, and to deflect the direct flame to avoid unwanted burns. It is essential to ensure that a small gap is left between the bar and the oven wall or embers to allow oxygen to feed the flame in a controlled manner, ensuring efficient combustion. It is important to note that the bar should not be placed at the bottom of the oven, but vertically or slightly inclined, acting as a containment for the fire.

• Maintenance and Cleaning:
  

  Thanks to its high-quality stainless steel material, cleaning the Flame Bar is extremely easy and requires minimal effort. Once the oven has cooled completely, the bar can be easily removed and cleaned with a brush to remove any ash or soot residue. For more stubborn stains, a damp cloth and a mild detergent specifically for stainless steel will be sufficient to restore the shine. It is advisable to avoid using abrasive products or metal sponges that could scratch the surface and compromise the aesthetics and durability of the steel.
  
  

• When to use it?
  

  The Flame Guard Bar is particularly useful in various cooking situations. It is indispensable when you want to bake pizzas with high and fluffy crusts, bread with a fragrant crust, or roasts that require more delicate cooking but at high temperatures. This accessory allows you to maintain a lively flame for rapid temperature recovery between baking, which is crucial when preparing several pizzas in succession, without compromising the quality or texture of the food. Its presence optimises heat control, making the cooking experience more predictable and the results more consistent

Don't let the flame ruin your next pizza masterpiece! Add the Alfonso Forni Steel Flame Bar Model 2 Pizzas to your shopping cart today and discover a new level of control and perfection in your wood-fired cooking.

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