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  1. 01Explainer · ~10 min readHow Pizza Ovens Work (2026): The Physics of a 60-Second BakeA pizza oven is, underneath the marketing, a simple machine doing three jobs at once: conducting heat into the base, radiating it onto the top, and circulating hot air through the chamber. Understand those three modes of heat, and how dome heat and floor heat divide the labor, and every spec on the box suddenly makes sense. Here's how a pizza oven actually cooks a pizza in sixty seconds, why insulation matters more than the headline temperature, and what the fuel really changes.

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