home made pizza oven

[dobbo]

Has anyone built or have any plans on how to build a backyard scotch oven/pizza oven?

[dullbird]

I'm pretty sure a friend of mine has, if you don't get any helpful replies let me know and I will drop him a mail and ask

[Debacle]

If you know anyone who has some back copies of Earth Garden magazine, there are usually articles in them from people who have made them out of mudbrick.
If you dont have any luck, let me know and I can look through my stuff on the weekend and photocopy some stuff to email

[Sleepy]

Try this forum:

Forno Bravo Forum: The Wood-Fired Oven Community - The Pizza Oven Installation and Cooking Community (http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/)

[Xavie]

YEah agree about earth garden.

I have built 3 and they are the best if built well. also this link is a great one

Wood pizza oven Building wood burning brick bread ovens (http://www.traditionaloven.com/index.html)

Xav

[Nat130]

Hey Dobbo,

We went out to a place in Vic called "The Mudbrick Circus' and they had a brilliant pizza oven they had built (we've never tasted better pizza).

I believe that you can get the plans off them for it - they do have a website you can contact them through.

We are going to start our mudbrick house this Sept and we were thinking of building the pizza oven as a trial first!

As everyone has mentioned Earth Garden is great.

Good luck, Nat

[Ace]

its on my list of things to do, there are a few on ebay. You buy the oven section then make the base to put it on.

Not cheap though

have a look at this link, this is a kit with everything. I have seen the oven only for around the $600 mark.

DOMED WOOD FIRED PIZZA OVEN - Put a dome in your home! - eBay Other Outdoor Cooking, BBQs, Cookware, Lighting, Outdoor Living, Home. (end time 04-May-08 12:36:30 AEST) (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/DOMED-WOOD-FIRED-PIZZA-OVEN-Put-a-dome-in-your-home_W0QQitemZ320245103972QQihZ011QQcategoryZ20726 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

[Tango51]

I think there is a wealth of info here, they wrote the book on it.
Alan Scott - OVENCRAFTERS (http://www.ovencrafters.net/)

[isuzurover]

I am also planning to make one, made a spit the other weekend, and was thinking about incorporating the two somehow.

Most of the wood fired pizza ovens I have seen are basically an igloo-shaped construction (or rectangular igloo), with a steel door ar the front, flue/chimney exiting the rear, and a stone/concrete floow, with u-channels at each side that you can sweep the coals/ash into once the fire is established.

[Bush65]

I think there is a wealth of info here, they wrote the book on it.
Alan Scott - OVENCRAFTERS (http://www.ovencrafters.net/)
I've just dug out a package of information I bought from Alan Scott some years ago for building such ovens for. Contains sets of plans for three front vented, wood fired, retained heat ovens.

The smallest practical oven has a baking hearth of 20" x 30" (12 loaf size)

The next has a baking hearth of 30"/32" x 36" (24 loaf size) allows extra room for fire in the oven baking, particularly for pizzas.

The largest has a baking hearth of 36" x 48" (36 loaf size - allows several batches per firing).

To bake the best bread, the oven needs to be fully loaded to create lots of steam. This is a main consideration in choosing the size of oven. IMHO you could try some water in trays to obtain the steam if the oven is not fully loaded.

The ovens retain heat for days, temps gradually dropping all the while. After baking bread, you can bake in order (as the oven cools), pies, cakes and biscuits, casseroles, sprouted wheat and fermented rye breads, puddings, fruits and whole vegetables, jams and custards, drying fruits, yogurt, etc.

Pizza and pita breads require the fire to remain burning, so a larger oven is required.

Fire bricks are required for the hearth. Dense red bricks (commons) for the oven. The oven is covered with aluminium foil, then concrete (using reo mesh).

R.C. slab under hearth.

Instruction for firing the large oven say; If starting from cold, make a kindling fire just inside the doorway, then add 6 to 8 eucalyptus logs about 48" x 4" to fill the oven. Takes about 4-5 hours to heat.

The fire burns in the front of the for an hour or two until the bricks under it are thoroughly hot. Then begins to burn in a wall of flame, moving toward the rear.

The fire heats the oven, the ash is removed and baking uses the heat retained in the mass of the oven bricks. Pizza are cooked with flame in the oven.

[dobbo]

Still procastinating about this one, like Isuzurover I want the deluxe do everything version, spit/BBQ/outdoor heating oven.

[The ho har's]

Still procastinating about this one, like Isuzurover I want the deluxe do everything version, spit/BBQ/outdoor heating oven.


dobbo
how often do you change yoyu signature?????

seems nearly every day/week:)


BTW oven sounds good:D


Mrs ho har:D

[isuzurover]

Still procastinating about this one, like Isuzurover I want the deluxe do everything version, spit/BBQ/outdoor heating oven.

Now that winter is all but here I need the outdoor heating as well!

I built my spit a bit too big (bloody engineers) - (25NB stainless pipe for the spit), and I think it is long enough to fit a whole cow.

[dobbo]

Now that winter is all but here I need the outdoor heating as well!

I built my spit a bit too big (bloody engineers) - (25NB stainless pipe for the spit), and I think it is long enough to fit a whole cow.

I see no problem with this

Apart from the cost of a whole cow nowadays

[dobbo]

dobbo
how often do you change yoyu signature?????

seems nearly every day/week:)


BTW oven sounds good:D


Mrs ho har:D

Some kind folk had issues with my previous signature so I was asked by admin to change it last week.

[clankilpatrick]

Mate, I downloaded these a few years ago to do my own oven and they have sat on the computer since then. Hope they help. (Hope I have attached them correctly as well so you can get them)
cheers
dave