pizza oven

English

Etymology

From pizza +‎ oven. From being an oven specialized for making pizza.

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Noun

pizza oven (plural pizza ovens)

  1. (informal) Synonym of conveyor oven. (From being frequently found in modern pizzerias.)
  2. (informal) A wood-fired brick oven with a stone floor in the baking chamber. (From being an oven found in traditional pizzerias, and an accessory built in backyards for pizza)
  3. A specialized infrared oven; a squat thin oven which fits a single pizza, that uses high intensity infrared lamps to rapidly blast and bake a pizza.

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