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This video shows how Marsal & Sons produces brick pizza ovens that excel at cooking delicious crispy pizza pies. It also highlights some of the many advantages of Marsal & Sons brick pizza ovens. Originally aired on the History Channel show Food Tech. “Brick Pizza Oven | Marsal & Sons MB-60 Brick-Lined Pizza Oven“ Video Transcript: And for lovers of old-world style pizza, only one kind of oven will suffice. Brick ovens are as old as civilization. And Marsal and Sons of Long Island New York has been making industry renowned pizza oven since 1969. But as you can see, the modern models they assemble also require a lot of steel. You know whoever drives this car has got to be pretty serious about pizza ovens. I'm with Chef Bruno. He's the corporate chef here at Marsal and you know a thing of two about making pizzas I guess. What do you want to know? You're famous for your brick ovens? Yes. It gives you very crunchy old fashioned style pizza. Why they going back to your world because it cooks faster and it cooks more dry and more crunchy. A raw product like mushroom have a lot of water. Mm-hmm, Olive's got a lot of water. Me--I don't like a soggy pizza. I like a very dry pizza. Are we gonna go in the brick oven. You're not gonna get all that water in here anymore. It's not the bricks on the outside that make the difference. They're just for show. It's these bricks on the inside. The stone retains the heat and then it throws the heat on top of your product. Two distinct kinds of bricks line Marsal's pizza ovens. The first is this lightweight clay variety. This is called fire brick and this is what we use in the back of the oven and on top of the oven to create that dome and create that chamber that the pie is cooking in. This type of brick draws out a lot of moisture. What that does is it brings out more flavors that you wouldn't normally taste in a standard type and it makes a better pie. The second type of brick used for the cooking surface is this 70 pound slab. The product name is called Fibrament and it's made by a company called Armco in Chicago. And what we do differently than anybody else is we take their brick and we have them make them for us 2 inches thick. Everybody else in the deck industry uses about an inch and a half. And we found that the two inch holds more heat. Right. And there's five of these in there--that's 350 pounds of brick holding heat. These bricks not only intensify the oven's heat but disperse it more evenly. Many standard deck ovens & pizzerias have cold spots. So it really takes a cook who's attentive to move a pizza around an oven and you see the guys lifting them up and trying to rotate them so that they're cooking evenly--you don't have that problem here. An untrained person could cook pizza in this oven. Like me? Right, like you. I might even have a shot at putting out a good-looking pie because it's going to cook evenly? Yes. Marsal's burner design also helps create a more even heating surface because it's shaped like a ladder instead of the “U“--common in other ovens. So everything about this oven is built in order to spread the heat out evenly. Correct. Now these stones are so heavy that they can't be shipped in the oven. They have to be inserted once they get to the restaurant. But just to show you how they go in. Oh gosh. It's definitely heavy. We're going to put the rough side up. This is the area that's going to be in contact with the crust. The little dimples in the rough side create more cooking area because the hot air gets trapped inside there and it gives it a really good-looking crust. That gets slid down to the end. Then five of them go all the way across. You can already see the brick that's in the back of the oven. That's that softer lighter brick we were talking about. We've got the heavy sturdy cooking surface there. Just four more of those and a little shipment and we're ready to go and make some pizza. And with Chef Bruno's help I wanted to see for myself the difference that a brick oven makes to help our pepperoni mushroom and olive pizza... Check out our large selection of pizza deck ovens at To explore other Marsal & Sons products, browse our offerings at Our catalog includes the popular Marsal and Sons MB-60 80“ Single Deck Gas Pizza Oven: Make sure to subscribe to our Culinary Depot channel for more great content related to restaurant equipment. Also follow us on: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: Pinterest: LinkedIn:
