Brick Oven Pizza

Brick oven pizza has become a national trend in the last couple of years. When I started in this business 20 years ago with  Goodfella's Brick Oven Pizza,  it was very rare indeed with only a couple of old joints even in a big place like New York City. Tortonn'os Pizza in Coney Island on Neptune avenue not far from Nathan's  was just such a place.  Jerry had a hand built oven and used fresh mozzarella which was an alien cheese unless you were Italian and bought it made by hand in your local Italian specialty store. His pizza was made his way and only a certain amount of pies each day then "get out I'm done". When he died the NY post proclaimed " The King of Pizza is Dead". A sad day indeed but he inspired me and my family to build the first brick oven in Staten Island NY. So www.goodfellas.com was born. At first many people wondered what the white stuff (fresh mozzarella) was on the pizza. This required many a conversation and reassurances that if they try it they will like it. With stiff competition all around us we had to make a good pie or fade away like the others that came and went. Staten Island was a small place and word spreads quick so fortunately the word was we had a good pizza so it was off to the races. We still use the fresh mozzarella cooked in a wood burning oven but even that has evolved over the years. Adding gas burners to augment the wood fire to maintain steady temperature was the first innovation. This made the pizza man's job a lot easier controlling the heat on the pies. The next big  change which ended up being the best decision ever was to put in a revolving deck or cooking surface. Now this was something. We no longer had to "spin" the pizza as it cooked which made the pizza consistent every time. Not only that,you didn't need a long training period for the pizza man and the product was always perfect. An added bonus was saving a lot of money by not needing to have a full time pizza spinner who worked the oven while another person made the pies. The $$$ savings were incredible. Now - New York Brick Oven Pizza Co. at www.brickovensforsale.com  provides these amazing cost effective ovens at a reasonable price for anyone. This oven design would have saved so much $$$ and aggregation over the years but as they say " live and learn". Happy pizza to you!