A traditional Italian pizza oven should be built in a proven dome shape and made of high quality materials. To keep the heat consistent inside the oven, only the best insulation materials should be used. The right base in the oven ensures a stable temperature to bake the pizza crispy on the outside and succulent on the inside. But the most important function of a traditional Neapolitan pizza oven is to reach an extremely high temperature inside the oven, up to about 480 degrees Celsius.
If all these requirements are met, the pizza can be baked to perfection in less than 90 seconds. The dough bakes on the hot base for only a very short time, which creates the incomparable air pockets on the thick edge of the dough that characterize a Pizza Napoli.