headergrill Heat up your parties with a portable pizza oven The Grand Rapids Press

Heat up your parties with a portable pizza oven The Grand Rapids PressBy Sue Dow | The Grand Rapids PressMay 12, 2010, 5:43AM

Courtesy PhotoThe finished product: a pizza is sliced fresh from the outdoor oven.Get Fresh with Sue Chef is all about local food. so, when I went in search of a wood-fired pizza oven, I was thrilled to find a unique, hand-crafted oven anyone can use, manufactured in the nearby community of West Olive.

Courtesy PhotoPersonal touches: Hugo Laranja drizzles olive oil on a pizza to be baked in his Forno de Pizza, a portable pizza oven he designed and created.
Courtesy PhotoLight the fire: The wood-burning oven can be hooked up to a propane tank or a natural gas line.Forno de Pizza is owned by Hugo Laranja, who spent his early years in Brazil. His dream of providing an affordable, well-built wood-fired oven to those who enjoy cooking and entertaining outdoors spurred his invention.

How it started

He tells his story like this:

“As a young kid, wood-fired cooking was just another weekend fun and delightful experience, either at home with my family or at a friend’s house. after designing and building my own home, I decided to add an outdoor kitchen where, of course, I wanted a pizza oven. after years of research, shopping and investigating, I decided I could better build one with my own two hands; thus, the creation of Forno de Pizza; ‘forno’ meaning oven.

“The inventing process took more than seven years and a lot of patience from my family. I was constantly drawing — I even remember using my kids’ crayons — especially when I had the sudden inspiration to create a portable oven.

“What resulted was a wood-fired oven that looks nostalgic, can cook a pizza in two minutes and can be relocated, whether you move or want to bring it to a tailgate.

“You also can cook anything you can think of — bake, smoke — whatever you can imagine. I’m pleased to say all of my ovens still are designed and created right here in West Michigan.”

Functions like a grill

I love that the Forno de Pizza is portable. much like a common outdoor grill, it is on wheels and ignites with a propane gas tank or can be hooked up to natural gas to get the wood burning and the temperature to the right level (up to 1,000 degrees).

Laranja’s banana, cashew and dulce de leche dessert pizza, a recipe from his native country, is his favorite. I never thought of putting banana on a pizza. It’s definitely a delicious dessert pizza.

For more information about purchasing or renting an oven, or rental complete with oven operator at your next event, go to fornodepizza.com.

• Grilled morel mushroom and Fontinella cheese pizza

• Banana with cashew and dolce de leche pizza

E-mail the author of this story: yourlife@grpress.com

Heat up your parties with a portable pizza oven - The Grand Rapids Press

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