DIY Brick Oven: The Dome - Part I. Making the brick dome for my oven was one of the scariest, yet rewarding, stages of the whole project – second perhaps to the first firing.
For my dome I used old red clay solids (bricks), and followed fairly closely the method outlined by Russell Jeavons in his previously mentioned book. Jeavons suggests you’ll need about 150 bricks, cut in half, to build a dome of this size. I think I needed closer to 200. I borrowed a big grinder with a diamond blade to cut the bricks. It was loud, tedious and dusty work, but the diamond blade cut through the bricks like butter. As you’ll see here and in Part II, the dome is formed by laying one circular row of half bricks on top of another, slightly angling each successive layer up and in, to develop the curve.
I made a pivot point out of any old rubbish – a bottle top and some unidentified scrap of plastic that seemed ideal for the job. One last building note before I outline the actual building process… Hickeymaster. Building wood burning pizza ovens plans Making fired brick oven dome, chimney details. Wood fired ovens hearth, dome, vent, flue, chimney, heat expansion, mortars, insulations, building plans.
For a wood burning oven to work properly and efficiently there are few rules to be remembered and applied in practice. Once you go according these your pizza wood oven in action should be fine. I wrote "should be" because, e.g. if you forget to add a cement into mortar or work fast willy-nilly, you may miss some things. I don't intend here to say we have to use common sense, nobody is perfect. But if you are like me who enjoys doing things patiently and don't experiment too much with untested ideas the happiness will arise from this endeavor, after all we are not making a spy satellite. FAQ - ABC Ovens - Wood Fired Ovens, Firebrick DIY Ovens.
Wood Fired Pizza Ovens - Pizza Ovens. Outdoor Alfresco Pizza Ovens Sydney & Brisbane, Buy DIY Pizza Oven Online. Cheap as Bricks, Sydney - Contact Us. Forno Economico: The oven floor, inner arch. The next stage was to get the oven floor down, made of the cheap firebricks I got from ebay.
I've decided to use them laid on their thin side, but because some of them were a bit worn, I've used some nearer the edge of the oven that are the 'wrong' way up with the the brick mark uppermost. I used about 1/2 inch of sand between them and the insulating block, whacked down hard with a mallet to make a solid and (relatively) level base. I drilled the middle brick to about half way and fitted a thermocouple, so I can tell what temperature the floor is at when I use it. Next came the inner arch - the one that will join to the clay dome. I split the free bricks I'd been given in half (these are solid bricks, with about two inches of one corner cut off) and used a mix of 50% fireclay, 50% grog as a 'mortar'.
The gap between this inner arch and chimney will be filled up with my insulating mix later on to seal all these gaps. Waratah Metal Work. Wood Fired Pizza Oven Recipes, Pizza Dough Recipe, Cherry Tomato Sauce, Pizza Toppings, Dessert Pizza, Pizza Party, Tabouleh. Introduction To My Pizza Dough I give my pizza dough recipe with some trepidation.
When I first started using a wood fired oven and making pizzas, people would press their favourite recipe on me and tell me it would never fail - and then it would. Or they would say it made a really light pizza and I would follow it to the letter and the pizza would end up heavy enough to be an anchor for a boat… This went on for some time and left me lying like Pinocchio to each 'expert' I had consulted about how well their recipe worked (and, of course, these lies can keep coming back to bite you for years, particularly if you consult people that you actually intend to have round for pizza!) It also left me feeling vaguely hopeless. After weeks of never being sure what was coming out of the oven, I hit upon a recipe that worked. How to Make Pizza Dough Just get in and make some! How to build a brick arch; the beauty, mathematics and history of building arches in architecture. My brick oven & fireplace cook food and heat water.
Brick oven with fireplace both having water pipes heat exchanger installed around its dense dome, the part which gets the hotter, for heating water and cooking food.
Around the copper water pipes the thermal insulation goes to cover the system to make everything perform more efficiently. Dear Rado, Greetings from the Philippines! Thank you for helping me build my old fashioned brick oven. The CD you sent was very detailed. It clearly showed me not only how to properly build an oven. I used your CD’s and an American Masonry Book to build my own version of a brick oven atop my fireplace. On the pictures is my wife, Violaine. As you will see on the photos, I improvised: Picture # 1 (2/22/07). Picture # 2. Picture # 3. Picture # 4. Picture # 5. Picture # 5A. Picture # 6. Picture # 7 (9/4/07). Ovencrafters. Brian's Brick Oven Folly. Everyone needs a folly... here is mine.
(One of them anyway). I got interested in wood-fired brick ovens after having the roast chicken at the Zuni Cafe in San Francisco, the bread from the Bay Village Bakery in Pt. Reyes, the stuffed artichoke from Cugini in Albany, and the pizza from Guillermo's in Oakland. Then I found Alan Scott's Ovencrafters web site, and a couple of books (e.g. The Bread Builders ), sketched out some plans and started digging. I ended up building a backyard oven that anyone with basic construction savvy could reproduce.
Here's the finished oven. Please sign the guestbook! News More Construction sketches have been added. I found an online discussion group devoted to brick ovens. The Brick Oven Project page is now a featured link on the website of Secret Recipes, a popular Australian cooking show. [Back to top] Books and Links This section lists books that I found useful or interesting. Pictures: I have more pictures.