Bob (this one) wrote:

>
> Look to the oven for the taste. Pizza ovens - the deck types, not the
> modern conveyor ovens - always have a little leftover stuff in them that
> burns and makes smoke.
>
> The baking process at very elevated temperatures changes taste and
> texture of everything on the pizza.
>
> But no ingredients to give a smoky flavor.
>
> Pastorio
>

You hit it exactly. That good taste comes from a really hot well used
oven. There was an excellent mon & pop pizza place one town over. Dad
retired and Jr took over. One of the first things he did was remove the
good anthracite coal fired oven and put in one of those conveyer "air
ovens". The recipe seems exactly the same but now he produces mediocre
Dominos/Pizza hut style pizza.