Howling Hearth
Survivng 2020 called for a celebration of sorts: to commemorate the end of a most difficult year, the Howling House team decided to throw an outdoors and socially distanced night. What could be cooked outdoors that could soothe the cold creeping in through the layers of a New England New Year’s Eve? Pizza! Howling Hearth is a pizza pop-up at its finest: specialty and customized pies made to order with locally procured ingredients.
The crew worked on building a professional grade pizza oven from hand-mixed clay and cement, combining tables for the platform from a previous restaurant night. The fire-bricked beauty cooks at greater than 800 degrees for a crispy finish that enhances the dough made from scratch. The oven was made by molding the half-dome of an exercise ball, laid on top of a platform comprised of tables reused from Howling Bowl. An insulating layer of sand underneath the firebricks separated the wood below from the inferno inside of the oven. Once the main shell was placed, a neck with the chimney was added so the heat could circulate out, contributing to an even cook while the bricks themselves heated up to a temperature-checked minimum.
Howling Bowl
