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For better combustion, it's preferable to use firewood with less than 20% humidity. It's best to buy it in advance and stack it in a dry and ventilated area. Note that buying wood during the summer doesn't guarantee that it will be dry.

Here's how you can recognize whether the firewood you have is damp and therefore, not ideal to use:

• It's quite heavy
• It has few splits
• The bark doesn't come off
• It has mushrooms or molds (sometimes visible)
• It's more difficult to turn in the oven chamber

Burning wet firewood creates excessive smoke, pollutes the area, and causes debris build-up that settles in the chimney. It will be harder to light the fire and the oven will end up producing less heat, leading to a cycle of using and buying more moist wood, whereas the problem could have been avoided from the start by choosing the correct wood.

Dry wood is essential to make a nice fire. Here's how you can recognize dry firewood:

• It's very light
• Oftentimes it will have wide cracks/gaps
• The bark tends to come off
• You find that the combustion leads to less wood consumption with minimal smoke

Use this trick to determine whether the wood is dry or moist: You can also throw a piece on the ground. If the sound of the impact is dull (AKA not "hollow"), it means it's damp wood.

Preferred types of firewood: Oak, Ash, Beech, due to their great calorific value.

Yes! You want to make sure each and every wood-fire cookout or solo meal is a satisfying one.

• The wood that you buy is almost always too wet! It must be purchased in advance
• Buy the wood from the previous year's season and use it the next
• Stack your dry wood in a ventilated and covered place
• For heavy usage, we recommed getting a moisture meter for accessing the quality of the wood for full confidence
• For short-term use, we recommend pellets
• Optimal wood size; length: 11.82”-15.76” (30-40cm), diameter: less than 1.18”-2.76” (3-7cm), or pellets for pizzerias

Materials NOT to use: Avoid softwoods such as pine, resinous wood, damp wood, cardboard, treated wood, painted wood, lacquered wood, and plastics.

NOTE: Buying wood in the summer does not mean you are actually buying dry wood.