Taco Rubio

It looks like the house Nethermind and I bid on, we are going to get (cross your fingers for us please, it all looks like a go for closing in 2 weeks barring any last minute nit-wittery),

As spring is here, and it's my first home, I'm starting to daydream about a spring/summer project. One thing that really appeals to me is the idea of building a wood-fired pizza/bread oven in the backyard. I love to cook outdoors, and had the luck to grow up with a friend who's father had one, so I know how to operate one.

I've been researching, and looking at free plans like these, but I thought I'd ask here before I end up joining another specialist forum full of fanatics and strangers: do any of you have one? Have you made one? Can you give me the dummies' version of what it was like to make one?

Thanks for any help

taco

ps yes, this is why i entitled a food thread on perfect popcorn today 'perfect pizza', i was looking at pizza oven plans while writing the popcorn thread up

Taco Rubio

As Michael Scott put it, "this has been my dream since lunch".

Upon reading up on what's required for this project, I'm proactively ditching it. I'd either a) never get around to it or b) put in about 2 hours, fuck everything up, and then throw a tarp over it and tell nethermind "let's never talk about/look at that thing again".

I'll just buy a nice grill for the same price that is hot enough to do what I want with it.

Willow Matthews

Nooo! Make Nether a Pizza oven!

Jamie Durie | Connecting People With Plants | jamiedurie.com :: Episode 1 Italy



Edit to add wow it's the whole episode, but the pizza oven is really cool! I want one! It's the first episode Taco.

Watch it, you know you want to.

Taco Rubio

/fixed

Willow Matthews

Read mah edit!

Besides, Nether can perve on Jamie.

Willow Matthews

Oooh it's a kit form oven! How cool!

No bricks!

Siggy

December - you get me bricks, clay, supply of cold beer... I'll drive up there and make it for you in a weekend.

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Ramonna Villota

That is so cool... Oh my I have to have one

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FlipperPA Peregrine

Good luck with the house. I wish we were having more luck with selling ours! GRRR.

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Siobhan OFlynn

Can I come and video the entire process for posterity? I'm looking forward to learning some new and interesting obscenities

What sort of beer is appropriate for building a brick pizza oven in the dead of winter?

I'll bring the brandy.

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Aimee Weber

I'm jealous. I always wanted my own brick oven! Congrats!!

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Malachi

I've been told that one's first masonry project will inevitably need to be done twice because the first iteration will self-destruct or require destruction.

Given that I tried to make a birdhouse with my kid some years back and wound up with a cubist interpretation of a birdhouse, I'd probably need five tries on the masonry. You might think it physically impossible make a wooden box with no right angles and no angle congruent to any other, but you'd be mistaken. A bird probably could have taken shelter in it but wouldn't have been able to tolerate the embarrassment.

Chantal

My husband built one, years back. First, he had to lay a concrete slab. Mixed it, started smoothing, says 'where's the spirit level?' (Well, sweetie, if you put if BACK where it BELONGS....)

By the time the concrete dried, we hadn't found it. The neighbours couldn't find theirs. Well... it LOOKED level.

But it wasn't. So we lived in that house another ten years with the barbecue sloping gently to the left. Still worked, though.

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eku Zhong

you dont have to use an expensive kit for something like that
i have never built a pizza oven but i have built a full size anagama and maintained a noborigama with my family (traditional japanese pottery kilns)
what you need are used industrial chimney bricks.... which you can get from any factory that smelts iron. they replace sections of their chimneys on a regular basis and sell the old ones to the potting community.. really cheap. add to that kiln clay .. and kiln base slab or any commercial heat proof sheeting or slab for the base.. and perhaps heat/weatherproof concrete to top it off..

a domed oven is way the best for even heat distribution.

i would so come and help you if it did take like several days to fly to where you are. ^^

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Siggy

Guinness.

Copious amounts of whiskey will need to be applied to taco so he can stomp the clay with bare feet though... that alone should be worth a giggle.

On the upside, hot pizza relieves cold feets!

Willow Matthews

Oh and get a huge wooden tub and massive amounts of grapes so as Nether and Sio can make the wine!

We all, I'm sure, expect this to be a worldwide youtube newsworthy phenomenon that we will all view with pleasure over our morning cup of coffee.

Please do not be forgetting to drunk dial the SLU friends you love during the taking of said video.

Thank you.

Mnkeeboy

The guy I'm staying with here in San Diego won't let me pay rent. Instead I'm helping out by remodeling the house. We did the standard kitchen thing, all new cabinets and appliances, I re-tiled the kitchen and dining room, faux finished the walls. next month we are stripping and repainting the exterior.

This month we chopped down a rotten old 50' palm tree and are building a huge outdoor fireplace with a .... wait for it ..... Brick Pizza Oven! hahaaa

I thought that was funny when I saw this thread. It's not just an oven either, we are doing a whole levels of retaining walls thing. it's a big project but it's coming along nicely. Gonna be all stucco with red brick trim and the plan allows for an oven big enough for 2 large Pizzas at one time.



That's the base for the fireplace. the backside is a hill that we are doing one more level on as soon as I trim this one with brick and back fill it.



I installed french drains and even a run pipe to drain off the top slab. I'll post more pics as we progress!

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