Build Your Own Outdoor Brick Oven

Finally build a tall chimney with more firebricks to vent the smoke from the oven.

Build your own outdoor brick oven.

The oven was not only impressive to look at it also worked incredibly well. After spending about 3 months on the site and deciding what i wanted to build and designing the oven i faced the hardest part of the build convincing the wife. My husband had wanted to build a pizza oven ever since he saw one at river. Then build a wooden frame for the hearth on top of the stand and fill it with concrete.

Here s how they built it step by step. Sunday 28th july 2013. The online pompeii oven plans feature a single column of text describing the construction process and a second column which. I happened to come across a gentleman that had built his own beautiful wood fired oven for under 350.

Place 3 bricks across the front of it on edge. Remember that you should also build the arched entrance to the bread oven therefore we recommend you to use a polystyrene or plywood template. They also have free plans for you to build your own oven and a great community of brick oven enthusiasts that are more then willing to help you with issues. Start with the bottom and place the bricks in a semicircle form.

The opening of the entrance should be around 1 wide but you can adjust its width and height according to your needs and tastes. Make sure you decrease the number of bricks as you go up in height to create a dome. Mike senese editor of make magazine is a pizza connoisseur and has been building pizza. I ve already recommended brickwood ovens to a bunch of friends.

The community can answer your questions and try to help you understand how to build an outdoor pizza oven. When rachel and her husband first decided to have a pizza oven in the garden as part of their permaculture design they never realised it would become the heart of the garden. The outdoor pizza oven plans were very straight forward and all the materials were available within a few miles from home. How to make an outdoor brick oven from recycled materials.

Leave enough space at the top to lead the smoke out. When it s dry line the hearth with firebricks and create an oven dome over the top. How the online plans work. Bridge the top with a 24 angle iron facing up and in.

These ovens will be as good or better but we can t deny the satisfaction of building your own brick oven from scratch. Our cortile barile outdoor oven was a lot of fun to build. Next build a square stand out of stacked concrete blocks and use a mixture of clay and sand to cement them together. The kids had a blast helping build the wood pizza oven and we all love to cook in it.

Add 4 more on either side extending back to the arch. To make a brick oven begin by digging out and pouring a concrete foundation to give your oven a stable base. These will frame the oven s mouth. It is to do with the sand and afterward place the bricks onto them.

If you take your pizza seriously consider building your own brick pizza oven it s easier than you think. Continue laying the bricks using clay mortar to build the brick oven.