Building A Wood Pizza Oven

Once you go according these your pizza wood oven in action should be fine.

Building a wood pizza oven.

As you graduate to more complex brick ovens you will require tools like a mallet hammer fire bricks fire clay fire blankets and other materials. Bricks are built up into a dome by laying layers of bricks with each layer at a larger inward angle. Mixing bag or bucket. If you re using wood screw the pieces together.

Lay the angle iron down spanning the open chamber. Regular bricks aren t designed for the high temperatures of a pizza oven so it is required you get fire bricks. Put a layer of rubble and stones in the centre 1a then add a layer of sand and glass bottles. Wood fired ovens hearth dome vent flue chimney heat expansion mortars thermal insulations and oven building plans.

You will need around 200 300 bricks. Therefore you have to decide the dimensions and design of the oven from the very beginning. Building swishy wood pizza oven page 2. How to build a wood fired pizza bread oven.

Don t forget than you could incorporate the oven in a larger and more complex project such as a outdoor kitchen. 40 pictures just on how to make a concrete slab from the ground leveling digging the footing out 2020mm x 1655mm slab 10cm thick and footing 30cm deep x 30cm wide putting wooden forms boxing together use of reinforcing metal rods for footing and metal mesh for the whole slab surface and the concreting job itself. Refer to your pizza ovens specific plans for a full list of equipment. These will act as a heat sink warming up then radiating heat back up through the oven.

Begin laying brick between the angle iron using the bend in the metal as support on each end of the brick. In this case it s a 75cm or 30 wood fired pizza oven. Before building the wood fired pizza oven you should choose the most appropriate plans for your tastes and needs. Space the angle iron as tightly as possible so there are minimal gaps for cold air smoke and flames to come through the ceiling.

You re after a solid square box approximately 1m high and 120cm square. I ve wanted a wood fired pizza oven of my very own since i was in rwanda back in 2007. Many pleasant evenings were spent eating delicious pizza made in the roaring hot oven in a little pizza place a stones throw from the novotel hotel now the umubano hotel i think just outside central kigali. Cut angle iron to the width of the oven.

Small pizza oven build our example hammer.