Wood fired (pizza) oven building?

[sloth]

Any one ever built their own wood fired oven, particularly but not exclusively for pizza. I do love pizza, wholemeal sourdough with loadsa garlic and onion, aubergine, courgettes and camembere & brie...

 

I'd love to hear any experience or tips etc. I may also at some point be digging a small pond, so may have clay for a cob build, maybe. Bricks more likely though.

Cheers all...

[Nikk]

Ian channery a Fclass rifle shooter built his own pizza oven.

If you like I try to make contact and ask were he got the build plans and materials to use.

Please let me know

Nikk

[Haironyourchest]

If you do build one, pick up an infrared thermometer - there's quite an art to placing the pizza in the right part of the oven relative to the coals, apparently.

[sloth]

Infrared thermo duly noted. And yeah Nikk, any info you gather chuck it on here please - I can't be the only arbtalker to want a wood fired oven!

[Ironbark]

I'm interested too. been thinking about making on my self for while now.

 

Done a bit of reading and lots of people use http://www.kilnlinings.co.uk, but the kits seem astronomically expensive to me

 

https://www.kilnlinings.co.uk/categories/wood-burning-oven-kits/kl-sheffield-firebrick-oven-superior-kit

[muttley9050]

Easy to make for next to free.

Ours is a large oak log around 3 ft diameter as the Base. Then a load of fire bricks from old storage heaters laid on top as the cooking surface. Get this good and flat. Then make your a door. Seasoned 2" plank cut to an arch top. With a bit of bent branch nailed to it as a handle.

Get a load of sand and form the inside of the oven is with it as a guide for your walls, using the door where you want it as part of the former . Then lay cob or bricks as the wall. Building around the former. Leave to set a couple of days them drag out all the sand. Leave 2 weeks to cure. Then cook pizza.

Will post some pics of mine over the weekend.

[muttley9050]

Here's some pics of my oven called the gruffalo.

[delabodge]

That's funky

[Marko]

For years and years I promised myself I would build one and . I collected half a pallet of materials and had watched every youtube construction video there was.... but never actually did anything.

 

A year ago I decided life was passing me by so I imported a pre built one from Portugal. Never looked back. They are brilliant not just for pizza parties but for slow roast vegies and meat.

 

I still would have liked to have built it myself but life is too short! My outstanding challenge is to build a base for it (a year later and it is still sat on pallets). Which leads nicely into my top tip....

 

The place where I had always intended siting the oven did not work. Even the slightest winds seemed to make it play up. It only had to be moved 6ft before it worked perfectly. Fine when a pump truck can move it, not so fine if you have spent many hours building a cob one in the wrong place.

 

Our first homemade wood fired pizza – Rustical is a blog page of our first not-so-round pizza

 

For those of you with branch loggers - a pizza oven is THE best use of wood chunks. They flare off quickly and provide a bank of red hot 'coals' which can be moved about easily to bring the oven quickly and evenly back to temp in between pizzas.

 

Last tip: Build one or buy one but don't spend another year thinking about it.

[Marko]

Neapolitan is sooo last year. Pizza t'Wigan is all the rage.