Home Electric Oven pizza temperature and bake time
Pandough estimates a Neapolitan starting point at 60% hydration: 290°C air, 290°C on the baking surface, and about 6 min–9 min. These are model estimates for this oven, not manufacturer specifications.
The ordinary built-in electric oven in most kitchens. Pick this if you bake in the oven you already own rather than a dedicated pizza oven. The numbers describe a typical European 60 cm unit with elements above and below and a 250C ceiling. That ceiling is the thing to plan around: it rules out Neapolitan, and it makes a preheated stone or steel worth far more than any setting, because the deck is the only part of the oven that can still deliver real bottom heat.
Also known as: Home oven, Kitchen oven, Electric oven, Built-in oven, Fan oven, Backofen, Elektrobackofen, Piekarnik elektryczny, Forno elettrico, Horno eléctrico, Four électrique, Elektrische oven, Elektrisk ugn, Forno elétrico, オーブン, 電気オーブン, 전기 오븐.
- You already own it, and it bakes almost every bread and enriched dough well
- Even, controllable heat with independent top and bottom elements
- Big enough for a tin loaf, a tray of focaccia or a full sheet of buns
- 250C ceiling, so no Neapolitan and a slow, pale pizza base without a stone
- Needs 45 to 60 minutes to saturate a stone or steel, not the 10 the dial suggests
- Fan mode dries the crust, so drop about 20C when you use it
- Specs here are typical values, not your specific oven
- A steel plate or a pizza stone is the bake. The empty rack will not brown a base.
- Give the deck the full 45 min. Air temperature lies. The stone is slower.
- Steel for a fast base, stone if the top needs more time. A sheet pan is the slowest of the three.