Oops, sorry about that. Still look at full open across the bottom. On the top, from the entry end, closed, open, closed, closed. If this doesn’t give enough color to the cheese put in a radiant panel for the #3 closed panel. In some cases where I’ve got a lot of veggies on the pizza, I like to have a partial panel in the #3 top position and a radiant panel in the #4 position. This allows for a little more airflow to the top of the pizza which helps to remove some of the water released from the toppings. The radiant panels do a good job of putting heat to the top of the pizza without the intense airflow, so from a baking perspective, the top of the pizza is baked more like it would be in a deck oven. There’s a lot that can be done with an air impingement oven in terms of modifying the baking profile. The trick is in finding what works best for your product mix, that’s where a good oven rep comes into play.
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