Naples pizza operators using coffin wood?

[Pete-zza]

According to the report at http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.32bc00250df8502d22e8f206780b432f.131&show_article=1, Italian prosecutors believe that pizza in Naples may be baked in ovens lit with wood from coffins dug up from the local cemetery.

Peter

[cranky]

According to the report at http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.32bc00250df8502d22e8f206780b432f.131&show_article=1, Italian prosecutors believe that pizza in Naples may be baked in ovens lit with wood from coffins dug up from the local cemetery.

Peter

Authentic bare bones pizza

[Jackie Tran]

So that's what makes their pizza so special.

[cranky]

So that's what makes their pizza so special.

It takes quite a bit of fuel to fire Italy's WBO pizza ovens day in day out.  Classicly designed ovens are not designed for combustion efficiency, retaining heat or getting the heat generated into the pizza.  Most of the heat is wasted.  Italy's population density is high.  There are no vast woodlands to draw fuel from.   Firewood must be valuable.  It makes sense that scrap wood would be sought after.  Digging up caskets is pretty depraved.

[Pete-zza]

They are being environmentally conscious. They are recycling.

Peter

[PizzaHog]

Peter, stop, you're killing me  .  I just don't know where you dig this stuff up. 

[norma427]

They are being environmentally conscious. They are recycling.

Peter

Peter,

LOL..who would want to eat rigor mortis pizza. 

Peter, stop, you're killing me  .  I just don't know where you dig this stuff up. 

Hog,

I agree with you, this whole thing is yuck! 

Norma

[Bill/SFNM]

Ashes to ashes, crust to crust.

[Jackie Tran]

Yesterdays ashes for tomorrows pizza. 

Generations upon generations have had a hand in making our pizza the very best!  Literally.

[norma427]

I couldn't resist.    last nail in the coffin..or the last straw..

Norma

[scott123]

They must really be dying for a slice of that pizza.

Seriously, though, how viable is wood that's been buried for burning?  Wet buggy slightly rotten wood should be useless for an oven, right?

[Glutenboy]

You guys beat me to it!  I guess the people who thought they were sticking to veggies feel a bit GRAVE right now!!!! 
(I had to think of a joke fast cause I gotta go to work...)  Here's another link.
http://www.newser.com/story/89129/police-coffin-wood-fuels-naples-pizza-ovens.html

[JConk007]

Forget the leftover 1X4 oak this is crazy!

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Most-Emailed-Photos-Italian-daily-Il-Giornale-pizza-margherita/ss/1756/im:/100517/photos_od_afp/7675f469c3df70c2adb1cd516ec1b9e6/#photoViewer=/100517/photos_od_afp/7675f469c3df70c2adb1cd516ec1b9e6
John

[Bill/SFNM]

Are they using kaput 00 flour?

[David]

Yes for a pasta morbida.

[scott123]

...and a dead culture

[norma427]

Norma

A new video on You Tube about making the pizza with coffin wood.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iasVxYPmw2A" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iasVxYPmw2A</a>

Please no knock, knock jokes about using coffin wood to make pizza.   

Norma

[Matthew]

Norma

A new video on You Tube about making the pizza with coffin wood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iasVxYPmw2A

Please no knock, knock jokes about using coffin wood to make pizza.   

Norma

Where's "NIPPALS"?
I guess drugs & reading don't mix.

Matt

[sear]

lol is that what happens to you if you eat a pizza from a  coffin fired stove ?

[PizzaHog]

lol is that what happens to you if you eat a pizza from a  coffin fired stove ?

Not sure but it seems this is having an effect on the locals.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3240/2959407763_27eb513f62.jpg?v=0