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We've talked about this here and I've been thinking about it for a long time to be honest and now the time has come...
I'm going to DIY build my own outdoor pizza oven (or bread bakery) and I'm thinking big!
I have no building experience (never laid a brick in my life) and have no plan as yet - just the idea.
My vision is to build a large... make that huge... enclosed brick structure furnace oven thingy with a chimney akin to something out of medieval times. I'll have to lay a slab first and then find appropriate bricks and materials to build the pizza oven with and I also intend to render the outside so it holds in the heat and looks Mickey Mouse.
Why? Because pizza and bread baked the old fashioned way in an outdoor wood fired oven tastes FANTASTIC. I've had many an outdoor pizza oven experience with friends and family and whilst they have tasted great the one major setback was how slow the process was with most outdoor ovens having limited capacity to cook more then one or two small pizzas at a time and for large gatherings you end up drinking more than eating!
Mine won't have that problem because it will be designed to cook at least 4+ (large pizzas) at once and hopefully some bread and a roast at the same time
Off the shelf pizza ovens cost a fortune and most are not much bigger than an indoor oven. The premium pizza ovens cost thousands and I reckon I can build my own super duper outdoor pizza oven for a considerable less cost.
Any ideas, advice, previous experience in building (particularly bricks) is welcome!
Watch this thread (top right "watch thread" link) to follow me as I make one of the best outdoor backyard pizza ovens the world has ever seen! I will not fail until I have a hot crispy smoky wood fired slice of homemade pizza in my hand... that is my pledge.
{Caveat - This project may take considerable time to complete. I cannot and will not be held responsible for failing to meet any expectations either stated or implied in this post...but, I will succeed, oooh yes I will whoooarrr...}
I'm going to DIY build my own outdoor pizza oven (or bread bakery) and I'm thinking big!
I have no building experience (never laid a brick in my life) and have no plan as yet - just the idea.
My vision is to build a large... make that huge... enclosed brick structure furnace oven thingy with a chimney akin to something out of medieval times. I'll have to lay a slab first and then find appropriate bricks and materials to build the pizza oven with and I also intend to render the outside so it holds in the heat and looks Mickey Mouse.
Why? Because pizza and bread baked the old fashioned way in an outdoor wood fired oven tastes FANTASTIC. I've had many an outdoor pizza oven experience with friends and family and whilst they have tasted great the one major setback was how slow the process was with most outdoor ovens having limited capacity to cook more then one or two small pizzas at a time and for large gatherings you end up drinking more than eating!
Mine won't have that problem because it will be designed to cook at least 4+ (large pizzas) at once and hopefully some bread and a roast at the same time
Off the shelf pizza ovens cost a fortune and most are not much bigger than an indoor oven. The premium pizza ovens cost thousands and I reckon I can build my own super duper outdoor pizza oven for a considerable less cost.
Any ideas, advice, previous experience in building (particularly bricks) is welcome!
Watch this thread (top right "watch thread" link) to follow me as I make one of the best outdoor backyard pizza ovens the world has ever seen! I will not fail until I have a hot crispy smoky wood fired slice of homemade pizza in my hand... that is my pledge.
{Caveat - This project may take considerable time to complete. I cannot and will not be held responsible for failing to meet any expectations either stated or implied in this post...but, I will succeed, oooh yes I will whoooarrr...}