outdoor wood (pizza) oven

[sparkplug]

As part of ongoing work on the house, I'm considering putting an outdoor wood burning oven in the garden. You know the sort of thing, a brick igloo for cooking pizza (and lots of other goodies!) in.

I'm doing the usual internet trawling, but wondered if anyone here uses / sells / builds this sort of oven and would share their experiences and advice with me.

Thanks in advance.

[johnnytheboy]

I was just talking to Toddy about this, I'm gonna do one in the summer as well as a Tandoori oven

I bought two books from amazon,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wood-fired-Cooking-Techniques-Backyard-Fireplace/dp/1580089453/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262722668&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Brick-Oven-Building-Baking/dp/190494325X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262722668&sr=1-4

And they are both junk, please avoid them, save your money and have a look at these two good web-sites

http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/

http://clayoven.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/1-building-a-clay-oven-the-basics/

[Grooveski]

I'd be lying if I said there wasn't pizza in mind when this (http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45602) was getting cobbled together.
Chinkapin's right enough. There's a ton of info on youtube.

[robin wood]

I know several that have built nice ones after reading this book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Your-Own-Earth-Oven/dp/096798467X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262726415&sr=1-1

[johnnytheboy]

Will buy that book Robin, hopefully better than the rest!!

[shaggystu]

a friend of mine imports and sells these
http://www.tastytrotter.com/ (scroll down a bit)
i've not actually used one yet but they look pretty awesome, really solid (they weigh in at somewhere around a quarter tonne!) and well made.
unusual disclaimer, i do have a personal link to the company, and if anyone does want one then please tell them i sent you, he'll buy me a pint!

cheers

stuart

[Davey569]

They did a clay pizza oven on one of the river cottage episodes. I cant remember which one but they sourced clay from a pond and just made a sort of tortoise shell shape with hot coals at the bottom. :)

[dave k]

I fancied building one, but the wife did not like the idea of a 4 ft high 3 ft square pizza oven in the back garden.. There are a couple of sites that talk about it - depends if you just want something quick and easy for a couple of months (e.g. river cottage style) or you want something more permanent.

This site is quite good http://lifehacker.com/5383791/build-a-temporary-wood+fired-pizza-oven-on-the-cheap?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacke r%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29

[Nibe]

They did a clay pizza oven on one of the river cottage episodes. I cant remember which one but they sourced clay from a pond and just made a sort of tortoise shell shape with hot coals at the bottom. :)

It was on the River Cottage Treatment episode 3.

On it's not easy being green the build one as well I believe it was in series 3 episode 2. The instructions on it's not easy being are better.

[cannyfradock]

Hello bushcraft uk members

I hope it's O.K for a newbie to post on your wood-oven thread, as this topic is close to my heart.

I built a Pompeii-style brick wood-oven in summer -09. As I could'nt fird a fire-brick supplier near me(S.Wales) I built mine out of reclaimed full red clay's. It functions well, but would have been better if I'd used fire-brick.Shortly after, I joined the Forno Bravo forum. One question kept being asked, Where can I buy fire-bricks in the U.K? I started searching the web and asking the same question also to other forum's. When I started to recieve some info I decided to publish all the names of fire-brick suppliers on my own site in the hope that other would-be wood/pizza oven builders could use this info for their build. Here's the link
http://woodovenukforum.forumup.co.uk/?mforum=woodovenukforum

I have also put other info on there which may interest people including links to free plans for building Pompeii-style ovens, Adobe ovens and Outdoor brick BBQ's.
I am not advertising anything-just a bit of free info to anybody like me who has a passion for Pizza/wood-ovens.

I hope I have'nt offended the moderators of bushcraft by posting this.

Terry (C.F)