• The cooking area including floor and wall area is made of Refractory Clay with a European certification for safety cooking.

• The clay core allows food to taste incredible.

• Ovens comes build already with a stainless steel chimney pipe, hat and internal grill.

• Ovens are full insulated. Allows Heat retention for hours.

• Ovens comes with a solid robust hinge doors in Cast Iron or Stainless steel with three door compartments which allows you to perform different type of cooking and allow you to control the fire better and saver.

• Doors are wide and tall, allowing performing double stacking levels of cooking or place big tray dishes such as turkeys or a big pot for casseroles.

• This is the only cooking device you will ever need in your patio.

• You can bake, grill, do your rotisserie and use it as an outdoor fireplace all in one. This is the last surviving cooking tool if gas and electricity is out. Our ovens look great in your patio.

• Ovens are 100% Artisan product. HAND MADE. NO MACHINE MADE.

You can order an oven through us at Wheeler Zamaroni – please call to inquire.

Ovens require Curing Time 3 – 4 days. Heat up oven gradually. See Curing Time and Heating process. Even though the Mission Ovens are ready to work and are apparently dried, it is necessary to carry out a “cure” to remove and evaporated the moisture accumulated and trapped in the wall layers during the manufacturing of the oven. These consist of running small fires progressively for at least 3 to 4 consecutive days before cooking in it, which will minimize or avoid cracks inside and outside the oven. Note: This process should also be completed if your oven has not been used for a long time and water or moisture has been trapped within oven walls and base floors.

The type of hardwood logs are as follow: Use Kiln dried hardwood, or seasoned hardwood such as Oak, Mesquite, Ash, Almond, Cherry, Apple, Pear, Hawthorn, Hickory, Pecan Tree, Plum, Alder, Maple, Natural Mesquite Lump Wood natural charcoal. Do not use pine or woods that may have resin, briquettes or enhance charcoal, plywood or petroleum – chemicals, no painted or treated wood. Use small logs as much as possible to start fire.

Please see section CURING TIME and EVERYDAY FIRE UP GUIDANCE in User Manual.

1. The elapsed time should be at least 1 to 1-1/2 hour depending on weather and how cool the walls of the oven are and depends of what type of cooking you are doing.

2. The temperature should be at least > 250 °C / 480 °F Good temperature to cook almost anything.

3. The interior of the oven must be clean, without the soot that is formed on the walls at the start of the fire. When all of these occur, the oven is ready to cook.

4. Note: Exception: If you are using the oven for Grilling only there is not need to perform the steps described before once the live coal or ember are ready start grilling.

5. We recommend after finish cooking clean the oven with the fire so all the soot gets removed from the walls so next time if you are grilling only your oven will be pretty much clean.

• Never use water to lower the temperature of the oven or to extinguish fire. This may cause damages to the oven structure.

• If you find that temperature rose too much, sparse the wood fire inside the oven to control fire, remove it safely into a metal bucket. Worst case just close the doors and the chimney vent; it will stop the fire (NO OXYGEN – NO FIRE) after a few seconds remove some firewood into a safe place such as a metal bucket. Closing the doors while fire is way to high it may increase pressure in the oven for a short period and may create cracks in the oven. Use it as last option.

• Remember: You can always add wood to increase temperature gradually. Use doors to control temperature and air flow.

• When live heavy fire always keep the vent and doors open. Use less wood and add it as need it to increase temperature.

Do not leave these ovens exposed to extreme weather such as snow or in wet and damp weather conditions. Protect ovens for longevity. Use the oven cover sold by Artistic Ovens or apply any other water proof cover to protect the oven for weather conditions such as rain, snow, ocean front. Do not expose oven to icing or wet-mopping the oven while it is still heated, this can cause damage/cracking to the oven floor.

Build a cover porch for the oven if you can. You may if you wish to touch up the exterior walls of the oven yearly to preserve its original look with the stucco paint kit and some other caulking cement products described in the (how to patch oven).

The oven gets clean with fire. Once you heat up the oven to around 250 –275 (°C). The soot will start to disappear from the walls. Brush and scoop the ashes of the floor area when oven cools off. Use a metal bucket if wood coals are hot to remove it from the oven. Apply olive oil to the cast iron door to prevent rust. For the wood nubs, apply water base sealers to protect the wood from UV light.

• Exterior Color change: Yes you can change the color of your oven by applying exterior water base stucco colored paint. We suggest applying an exterior masonry paint that works with masonry walls with properties that allow for expansion and contraction. The original stucco that comes with the oven has cork particles. Get something with similar properties. NOTE: Before changing the exterior of the walls, please complete the Curing Time process. This will allow you to patch up any cracks before proceeding in changing the outside color.

• Cover oven with another color paint, stone or structure around oven. You can use an exterior paint, but we do not recommend applying heavy structure stones or bricks on top of these ovens. Thin light tiles and light stone veneers will be okay but you will need to test and figured out the type of preparation and glue to prevent transfer of cracks to the final surface material. We do not have recommendations at this time regarding this direct resurface. For best results build a metal case around the oven not touching the oven walls and cover up with cement boards around and finish it up with decorative rocks, tiles. See artisticovens.com picture gallery. NOTE: Before covering the oven with another exterior walls, or resurface please complete the Curing Time process, Use the oven for a while then proceed to patch up any cracks if necessary before covering the entire oven if you wish.

No. These ovens do not come by default with the Gas burner.

Nevertheless ,You can install a gas burner by Vamparossa that works with our ovens. https://www.vamparossa.com/ so you can do gas or/and wood at the same time.

Most people do not need the gas burner. You can start the wood fire inside the ovens with a plumbing torche that you can get in your local hardware supply near you. This will start the fire very fast without generating to much smoke. Also it will help you restart the fire when need it. Get the one with the blue tank and self ignition trigger. Always read torche instructions for how to use it and savety guidances.