Pizza fantastico crossa!

In "Which oven" I already nagged you about which oven. Well, this is it:

Smeg SF9390X1 - 115 liters! 90cm

Ordered from Murripatrizia in Italy. Same issue with the extractor hood, but the price is good, and the hood arrived anyway, so... Ordered. Three days without hearing anything, but that's not surprising. A week later, hmmm, any news yet? A few days later: "SPEDITO!" That's Italian for shipped. And that an email with a tracking link would arrive the next day. Nope. A week later, still nothing. So, another call to Murripatrizia. Heard nothing, until yesterday, when the delivery service called to say they were coming to deliver a package.

READY!

 

But, didn't see it: the gas line now runs right over the oven. That's not the plam.

The oven needs to be a bit lower, so it needs to be taken out again.

And an aluminum plate between the window and the gas pipe.

AND yes, damn it, this is a big oven, and a deep one at that. And the plug is a long one. And they get in the way. The oven doesn't get very hot on the outside, but that's not the intention anyway.

A flat cutter then.

And now we're going to make pizza. (It's been a while!)

Mercadona dough

Oh yeah, a rolling pin is nonsense, just stretch it, like in the Bakeoff on TV.

Homemade tomato sauce.

Courgette

Quattro thing: cheese, nothing, blue cheese and slices of chorizo.

280º, 7-8 minutes

Gosh, what a long pizza. Two bread boards then.

 

Fantastic pizza crossa!

Alma

Well, a Facebook post said a "bodeguera" dog that doesn't belong had been living at the Almacen del Instalador for a month. The translation of "bodeguera" on Facebook is "sherry," but that's incorrect. It's a breed of dog in Spain kept in wineries to chase away rats and mice from between the barrels. Or to eat them. A feisty little dog breed, indeed. 

I'd already seen her there last week. A melancholy look in her eyes. "What am I doing here?" The almacen staff did put a cloth there, give her food and water, and a cardboard box. But oh well.

We took her home the day before yesterday. Of course, she ran off at the first attempt and went a hundred meters further to see what was going on. We'll come back later. First, a quick trip to the garden center for more lavender, thyme, and rosemary. Should we go home or take a look? Let's take a look. The capture attempt was successful. Lifting

her was no problem. The car isn't either. She looks fine otherwise. Not dirty, no vermin either. Great.

At home, we still had a worming pill and flea drops from Patas/Paws. Those went in and out easily.

The almacen's cloth is next to the refrigerator, and that's her spot for now.

She's a sweet animal, well-behaved, and wags like a tail.

Yesterday, we took her to the vet to check her microchip. She doesn't have a collar, so no address tube either. It's a shame the chip can only be checked by a vet; then you have to catch a dog and take it with you. A hassle, and that's not happening. A piece of paper in a tube works better. Or, if necessary, just a tag with a phone number. Otherwise, your dog is gone, and you won't find it.

So, she does have a microchip. Her name is Luna, and she was born in 2012 in Córdoba. She's not registered as lost. The two phone numbers in the microchip registration don't work. Well, you can't register it yourself here, unlike in the Netherlands; it has to go through the VET, and it costs money. That's another hassle, and so it doesn't happen. Since 2012, anything could have happened. A move? Vacation? Theft?

Well, the registration should contain the owner's name and their NIE/DNI, and the police will then investigate that. Because you can't check citizen service numbers as a VET either.

If she turns out to have a loving family, all the better; otherwise, she'll just stay here, and we'll call her Alma. From Almacen, yes. Nice, huh?

The extractor hood has arrived!

In this piece, we already mentioned the need for an extractor hood. This is the one we chose: the Concord by Falmec:

Concorde , for its sleek, modern look: // sleek modern look:

Well, it took some doing, like many here, to get it here. It's a model that isn't sold in Spain, so it has to be ordered directly from Italy. We saw it at Murripatrizia: cappa-falmec-serie-design-concorde-parete-120-inox-800-m3-h . And the oven we wanted can also be ordered there for a reasonable price.

The webshop shows a shipping price that's a bit higher than for one appliance, but less than the price for two. Logical. But no, a week later an email saying the courier wanted an extra €90, making the shipping costs higher than the total for the appliances ordered separately. We didn't do that, so we canceled the order.

So, just the extractor hood. After three weeks, an order confirmation. And then it can take up to five weeks for them to deliver it. Luckily, I paid through PayPal, so if the delivery fails, you won't lose your money. It is, after all, Italy, right? After five weeks, I inquired: where is it? There was a slight delay in production, but it would be fixed within two weeks. Well, add three or four more weeks to that. Your order is on its way! With a tracking link. Which unfortunately didn't work. Yes, within Italy. But as soon as the shipment leaves Italy, the partner courier has to handle it, and that tracking wasn't working. "Your shipment number was not found." After a week and a half, I called again. "We'll look into it." The tracking now showed that the package was on its way from Spain to Genoa again, "due to customs issues." Hello, this is Europe, right?

But they said they would look into it again. That never happens very quickly, by the way, but takes a few more (working) days. WORKING DAYS! Hahaha! Working days. Oh, my apologies, no jokes about the poor little brother in Europe.

The tracking wasn't working.

A week later, suddenly, I received a phone call from a courier: I have a shipment for you.

The box was a bit dented. But the courier wasn't fussy. "If it's damaged, we'll come pick it up again."

Luckily, that wasn't necessary.

Hanging it was quite a job. The pipe through the wall, in particular, wasn't easy. The pipes on the hood are 15cm in diameter, but 15cm plastic pipe doesn't exist. At least, not here. There's 16cm, or 20cm as the next larger size. We did have a piece of 16cm left, because that's also the size for irrigation water pipe. The builders had neatly made the hole in the wall 15cm, as requested. Hmm. Well, Engineer Jansen has an electric jigsaw, so a strip was sawed from a piece of 16cm pipe so that you could squeeze it together and press it into a 15cm hole. With a lot of cursing, it worked. Just a bit too short to easily secure the bend outside, but oh well. It worked in the end.

Then I screwed wall sockets onto the wall and branched them off from the wall socket for the oven.

The wall socket at the bottom, with the three holes, is for the power supply for the oven. It has its own electrical circuit, so to speak. There's also a thick cable with three thick wires in the wall for that purpose. And I wanted to branch off an extra wall socket from that, for the electricity for the cooktop and the extractor hood.

But, if you look at the clamps, there's not much room to clamp a thick cable. The wires were only half "in." We call that "Anstey-style." Let alone that I can still squeeze in a cord for my outlet. Grgll. Just buy a new one then. There were two kinds. One exactly like the old one, but also one with more space between the clamps. I bought that one then.

Looking closely, I saw that I had the internals turned upside down, so the earth was in the wrong hole. The little pins in this socket don't prevent such mistakes. A plug unique to Spain!

And yes, it still needs plastering.