Sometimes our customers get so excited when their new oven arrives that they immediately create blazing hot fires for their first pizzas. Unfortunately, this can lead to cracking if the curing process is not done first. Cracks are completely normal for all hand-made terracotta and brick wood-burning ovens and won’t affect the cooking in any way. However, you can minimize any cracking by going through a proper curing process as recommended above.
Click here for a great blog article on brick oven cracking.
In the future, if you do have any superficial cracking in our brick ovens from Authentic Pizza Ovens, you can cover it with the included patch kit.
To learn more about using the Ultrafire Brick Oven Repair kit, check out this blog post.
