outdoor wood (pizza) oven

[sparkplug]

As part of ongoing work on the house, I'm considering putting an outdoor wood burning oven in the garden. You know the sort of thing, a brick igloo for cooking pizza (and lots of other goodies!) in.

I'm doing the usual internet trawling, but wondered if anyone here uses / sells / builds this sort of oven and would share their experiences and advice with me.

Thanks in advance.

 

[johnnytheboy]

I was just talking to Toddy about this, I'm gonna do one in the summer as well as a Tandoori oven

I bought two books from amazon,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wood-fired-...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262722668&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Brick-...=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262722668&sr=1-4

And they are both junk, please avoid them, save your money and have a look at these two good web-sites

http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/

http://clayoven.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/1-building-a-clay-oven-the-basics/

 

[Grooveski]

I'd be lying if I said there wasn't pizza in mind when this was getting cobbled together.
Chinkapin's right enough. There's a ton of info on youtube.

 

[robin wood]

I know several that have built nice ones after reading this book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Your-...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262726415&sr=1-1

 

[johnnytheboy]

Will buy that book Robin, hopefully better than the rest!!

 

[shaggystu]

a friend of mine imports and sells these
http://www.tastytrotter.com/ (scroll down a bit)
i've not actually used one yet but they look pretty awesome, really solid (they weigh in at somewhere around a quarter tonne!) and well made.
unusual disclaimer, i do have a personal link to the company, and if anyone does want one then please tell them i sent you, he'll buy me a pint!

cheers

stuart

 

[FerlasDave]

They did a clay pizza oven on one of the river cottage episodes. I cant remember which one but they sourced clay from a pond and just made a sort of tortoise shell shape with hot coals at the bottom.

 

[dave k]

I fancied building one, but the wife did not like the idea of a 4 ft high 3 ft square pizza oven in the back garden.. There are a couple of sites that talk about it - depends if you just want something quick and easy for a couple of months (e.g. river cottage style) or you want something more permanent.

This site is quite good http://lifehacker.com/5383791/build...m_campaign=Feed:+lifehacker/full+(Lifehacker)

 

[Nibe]

They did a clay pizza oven on one of the river cottage episodes. I cant remember which one but they sourced clay from a pond and just made a sort of tortoise shell shape with hot coals at the bottom.

It was on the River Cottage Treatment episode 3.

On it's not easy being green the build one as well I believe it was in series 3 episode 2. The instructions on it's not easy being are better.

 

[cannyfradock]

Hello bushcraft uk members

I hope it's O.K for a newbie to post on your wood-oven thread, as this topic is close to my heart.

I built a Pompeii-style brick wood-oven in summer -09. As I could'nt fird a fire-brick supplier near me(S.Wales) I built mine out of reclaimed full red clay's. It functions well, but would have been better if I'd used fire-brick.Shortly after, I joined the Forno Bravo forum. One question kept being asked, Where can I buy fire-bricks in the U.K? I started searching the web and asking the same question also to other forum's. When I started to recieve some info I decided to publish all the names of fire-brick suppliers on my own site in the hope that other would-be wood/pizza oven builders could use this info for their build. Here's the link
http://woodovenukforum.forumup.co.uk/?mforum=woodovenukforum

I have also put other info on there which may interest people including links to free plans for building Pompeii-style ovens, Adobe ovens and Outdoor brick BBQ's.
I am not advertising anything-just a bit of free info to anybody like me who has a passion for Pizza/wood-ovens.

I hope I have'nt offended the moderators of bushcraft by posting this.

Terry (C.F)