Anybody built a wood fired pizza oven

Mark Williams

Mark Williams

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Thinking about about doing just that.

We live about 30 minutes from anywhere that sells pizza or anything else for that matter. We make our own from scratch quite a bit for that reason. Deb and I are seriously thinking about building one big enough to cook a few pies at the time for get togethers and they are just cool :D .

We have a little bungalo near the main house that would possibly make a nice prep area for inspection purposes.

Maybe I could sell big pizza slicers to :)

I wish I could find some large half cylinders of ceramic to use instead of fire bricks for the domed top. Fire bricks are expensive it seems.

If anyone has any links to some pizza sites , feel free to chime in.

Mark
 
Wow Mark, sounds like you two have a grand homestead!!!! It must be nice to have that many friends to have over too!! What do you mean as far as large half cylinders? What would it be made out of? How big would it need to be?


PS; If I ever need to move, you might end up with a new very close neighbor. :D
 
You can buy precast ovens for that .BTW the proper temperature to bake a pizza is about 830 F !!! No kidding .They recently tried to pass a law in Italy requiring that temperature ! Of course that's why a kitchen oven doesn't cut it with only 500 F .
 
I have friends that built a cob oven. The only thing they ever actually cooked in it were pizzas...burnt on the outside, raw on the inside. I'm not sure if they ever figured it out. In the next few weeks, they're tearing it out and building a new one.
 
Now you've caught my interest. We also live 1/2 hour from pizza and they're closed Dec-Feb.

I keep telling my wife to have a built in grill/cooking station installed. I'll suggest she add a pizza oven!

Staying tuned for further info,
Win
 
If you would like to have pizza's available by you, I am sure your neighbors would too. If the population could sustain it, or at least enough to pay off your investment, have you considered opening a pizza business? Consider opening a few hours in the evening during the week.
 
Awesome idea.

I make pizza on my Weber charcoal grill all the time. Its not 800 degrees, but it does get really hot and makes a much better pizza than the oven.

Lump charcoal lights faster and gets hotter than briquets, but briquets don't burn out as fast and give me a longer window of opportunity not to screw up cooking.
 
Is there such a thing in America as 'night storage heaters'? They a big lump of heating apparatus that charge up overnight on cheap electricity and let it out during the day. They were popular in the UK. The old ones are full of fireclay bricks, but the newer ones are full of ceramic bricks. You used to be able to buy second hand night store heaters really cheaply.

I saw an Australian video that showed a guy making pizza on a propane BBQ. His number one tip was to put the pizza tray on 3 empty beer cans. It raises the pizza to the top of the BBQ hood where the temperature is the hottest. He pre-heated the grill for 30 minutes.
 
razcob said:
If you would like to have pizza's available by you, I am sure your neighbors would too. If the population could sustain it, or at least enough to pay off your investment, have you considered opening a pizza business? Consider opening a few hours in the evening during the week.
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If there was a place for folks to park long enough to pick up their pie......hmmm. Our drive is on a blind curve.

Maybe a delivery service might do the trick. You might just be onto something.
 
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