Thought it might of interest, over the last couple of months the Mrs and I have made a wood fired pizza oven for the garden. I have wanted one for ages but didn’t want to buy the pellet ones or pay £thousands for a commercially made one. This one has cost me about £100 to make, plus some scrounged bits of wood.
It is made from perlite and concrete, moulded over a yoga ball with chicken wire reinforcement, with firebricks as the cooking floor.
Second run today, pizzas were cooking in about 40 seconds....I think I perhaps had it a bit hot as my laser thermometer goes to 600C and it went higher than that and just said “high”!
A slight hairline crack has developed as a result of such high temperatures and my lack of patience using it before it’s completely dried out but I don’t think it’ll be an issue. Will leave it now, render it and then leave it a good 6-8 weeks to thoroughly dry out.
The chimney stainless has gone a cool colour so it was certainly hot as steel needs to be 423C to do that. At least I know the wooden base and the garden fence don’t catch fire now. I had a couple of logs in the mouth of the oven to warm, a good 15cm from the fire and they caught so got added earlier than planned which is why it got a bit too hot.
Cooked some pork and black pudding sausages in a cast iron skillet in there as pizza topping before putting pizzas in and they only took about 5min before being done ready to break up as a meaty topping.
The wife had a lake of local Stilton on hers so I’ve got the mouthwash out for her before bedtime.
sorry about the rotated images, not sure why iPad has done that, they are not rotated in my library.
It is made from perlite and concrete, moulded over a yoga ball with chicken wire reinforcement, with firebricks as the cooking floor.
Second run today, pizzas were cooking in about 40 seconds....I think I perhaps had it a bit hot as my laser thermometer goes to 600C and it went higher than that and just said “high”!
A slight hairline crack has developed as a result of such high temperatures and my lack of patience using it before it’s completely dried out but I don’t think it’ll be an issue. Will leave it now, render it and then leave it a good 6-8 weeks to thoroughly dry out.
The chimney stainless has gone a cool colour so it was certainly hot as steel needs to be 423C to do that. At least I know the wooden base and the garden fence don’t catch fire now. I had a couple of logs in the mouth of the oven to warm, a good 15cm from the fire and they caught so got added earlier than planned which is why it got a bit too hot.
Cooked some pork and black pudding sausages in a cast iron skillet in there as pizza topping before putting pizzas in and they only took about 5min before being done ready to break up as a meaty topping.
The wife had a lake of local Stilton on hers so I’ve got the mouthwash out for her before bedtime.
sorry about the rotated images, not sure why iPad has done that, they are not rotated in my library.
