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A pizzeria's stainless deck pizza oven with two stacked chambers on steel legs, the lower door open on a stone deck where a pizza is baking, dials beside each door, the deck oven clearly a pizza oven and the subject of the frame, a tiled wall behind, warm indoor light.

Bakers Pride
Pizza Oven Repair

A Bakers Pride deck oven visit is timed around the pizzeria's day, ideally before lunch prep begins or after the last ticket of the night.

(844) 747-3662

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

  • 1 pizza oven types
  • 6 problems we see
  • 10 repairs we do

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Bakers Pride pizza ovens,
specifically.

Bakers Pride started in the Bronx in the mid-1940s and still builds pizzeria deck ovens: gas Superdeck floor models, the IL Forno Classico open-flame ovens, electric decks and countertop HearthBake ovens. The controls are mechanical, a standing pilot, a gas cock dial and a dial thermostat, so a visit reads flames, dampers and temperatures rather than a display.

The Bakers Pride lineup

Builds1 pizza oven type

Commercial deck oven

Called out forPizza Oven Pilot Won't Stay Lit Once the Knob Is Released

and 5 more problems on Bakers Pride

Repairs we do10 repairs, on any make

Pizza oven diagnostic visit · Pizza oven burner and igniter repair · Pizza oven gas valve and thermocouple repair · Pizza oven floor and dome repair

Error codesBakers Pride pizza ovens do not show error codes: the gas decks run on a standing pilot, a gas cock dial and a dial thermostat. The lamps they do have, such as the amber booster lamp on the IL Forno and the element and steam lamps on electric decks, only show that a circuit is on.

Book with what the pizza oven is doing and the model plate; the visit starts from the symptom.

The Bakers Pride
lineup.

Bakers Pride builds 1 of the 4 pizza oven types this site covers. Which one decides how the visit is planned.

All pizza oven types
Deck

Commercial deck oven

4 of the problems we see on Bakers Pride come up on it Commercial deck oven repair

What is particular
to Bakers Pride.

Gas Superdeck floor models (the 100 to 805 series and the Y-600 and Y-800), IL Forno Classico FC open-flame ovens that can stack on a deck oven, EP and EB electric decks, and countertop HearthBake and GP ovens. The series decides the burner layout, the deck material and whether there is any electrical part at all.

A pilot meant to burn around the clock

Bakers Pride expects the pilot on its gas decks to stay lit day and night, weekends included, because that is easier on the safety valve. A pilot that keeps going out is a problem worth chasing, not a habit to live with.

Hold the dial for half a minute

Lighting means pressing the gas cock dial and holding it about 30 seconds after the pilot catches, and the safety valve only opens fully to the burners a minute or two later. Letting go early is the usual reason a pilot drops out right after lighting.

Micro slides trade top heat for bottom

The Superdeck ovens use push-pull micro slides to balance heat over and under the pizza. Burnt bottoms with pale toppings often come from slides closed too far or from a thermostat left high through slow periods, not from a failed part.

IL Forno's booster flame needs a plug

The visible flame at the back of an IL Forno is a booster burner with hot-surface ignition, wired through the oven's power cord. It is set to burn with a yellow flicker, so a yellow flame there is normal, while a booster that will not light starts with the outlet.

Parts

Decks, thermostats, safety pilot valves and flame diverters are matched to the model on the rating plate. Countertop models have their own replacement decks and control panels.

Repair or replace

A Bakers Pride deck oven is a steel box with a burner, a valve and a thermostat, so almost everything that fails can be replaced piece by piece. Cracked decks and worn flame diverters are routine work; a rusted-through combustion chamber is the point to compare against a new oven.

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What we are
called out for.

On Bakers Pride, most often pizza oven pilot won't stay lit once the knob is released.

All problems
Close view inside a cold commercial deck pizza oven burner compartment below the stone floor, a small weak yellow pilot flame barely touching the tip of a thermocouple beside a long burner tube, a light dusting of flour on the metal.

Pizza Oven Pilot Won't Stay Lit Once the Knob Is Released

6 causes, cheapest first

 A stainless outdoor gas pizza oven on a patio counter in plain afternoon light, its door off and the pizza oven stone floor cold and empty, the burner channel along the back dark with no flame, the knob at the front.

Gas Pizza Oven Won't Light: Clicks, Gas Hiss, Still No Flame

7 causes, cheapest first

 A domed wood-fired pizza oven in a backyard on an overcast day, a small smoky fire of dark damp logs at the back of the pizza oven stone floor, the inside of the dome still black with soot, a pale raw pizza waiting on a peel resting on the ledge.

Pizza Oven Not Getting Hot Enough to Bake a Crisp Crust

7 causes, cheapest first

 A finished Neapolitan-style pizza on a wooden peel resting at the mouth of a domed pizza oven, its crust charred black on one side and pale on the other, the glowing fire at the back of the pizza oven stone floor softly blurred behind.

Pizza Oven Uneven Bake: Burnt Edge, Raw Middle, Pale Bottom

6 causes, cheapest first

 A stainless double deck pizza oven in a quiet pizzeria kitchen, one deck door lowered to show a round oven thermometer resting on the stone floor inside, a pizza half baked beside it, the analog dial on the front panel with no readable markings.

Deck Oven Temperature Drifting Away From the Dial Setting

6 causes, cheapest first

 Close view of the dark digital control panel on the side of a stainless conveyor pizza oven, one abstract amber indicator glowing beside unlit segments, the edge of the pizza oven belt blurred behind it.

Pizza Oven Error Code on a Deck, Conveyor or Rapid-Cook Display

7 causes, cheapest first

Not a
Bakers Pride?

Bakers Pride is one of 16 pizza oven makes on this site. The other 15 each have a page of their own.

All 16 brands

Bakers Pride pizza oven repair,
where we come out.

9 metros, each with its own page.

All service areas

Tampa BayFL · 31 areas

OrlandoFL · 30 areas

Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas

New York MetroNY · 75 areas

HoustonTX · 36 areas

ChicagoIL · 50 areas

Los AngelesCA · 95 areas

San DiegoCA · 31 areas

San Francisco Bay AreaCA · 74 areas

A family sliding a pizza into a wood-fired pizza oven on a sunny patio.
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Questions about
Bakers Pride pizza ovens.

Should I turn off the pilot on my Bakers Pride deck oven at night?
No. Bakers Pride expects the pilot to stay lit day and night and says the oven should be turned down to the Pilot position overnight rather than left on a high setting.
Why does my Bakers Pride pilot go out as soon as I let go of the dial?
The dial has to be held about 30 seconds after the pilot lights so the safety valve can take over. If it still goes out after a proper hold, the thermocouple or the safety valve needs a technician.
Why are my Bakers Pride pizzas burning on the bottom?
The maker points to a deck left too hot through slow periods and micro slides closed too far. Drop the thermostat 50 to 75 degrees while it is quiet and open the slides to add top heat.
Is a yellow flame normal on a Bakers Pride IL Forno?
On the booster burner at the back, yes; it is set to flicker yellow and should not soot. The main burner flame under the deck should look blue on natural gas.

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