ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Pizza oven

Do you like pizza? I do too! Sometimes people make pizza at home, but it can be hard to get it to taste as good as it does at a restaurant. That's why some people have something called a "pizza oven" in their kitchen or outside in their backyard.

A pizza oven is a special kind of oven that gets really, really hot. It's usually made out of bricks or other special materials that can handle the high heat without breaking. When you cook a pizza in a regular oven, the heat comes from above or below the pizza, but in a pizza oven, the heat comes from all around the pizza at the same time. This makes the pizza cook really quickly and the crust gets really crispy on the outside while staying soft on the inside.

Pizza ovens can be powered by different things - some run on electricity, some run on gas, and some are heated up by burning wood or charcoal. The ones that are heated up by burning wood or charcoal are called "wood-fired" pizza ovens, and they're the kind that you might see at a fancy pizza restaurant. These ovens have a domed shape that helps spread the heat evenly, and the fire is usually built in a space next to the oven so the smoke can escape out of a chimney.

Pizza ovens can be a lot of fun to use! You can experiment with different toppings and try to make the perfect pizza. But be careful - when the oven is really hot, it can burn you if you get too close. That's why grown-ups need to be the ones to use it most of the time.
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