pizza ovens!

[beermee]

i am keen to build a pizza oven soon. any tips, advice?

anyone got one? how often do you use it? what do you cook in it?

feel free to post some picks of you oven (please)... i am keen to see whats out there....

[DrSweetsmoke]

I belong to a wood oven forum although I have yet to build on. These guys are brilliant to work with and learn from with plenty of photos to guide you through. Give them a little look.

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[gnol]

I posted a bit about mine but in the wrong section.

Have asked mods to move thread please.

http://www.aussiebbq.info/forum/viewtop ... =12&t=6075

[Lovenutz]

Well it doesn't really fit as a "proper pizza oven" BUT it is an alternative if you already own a kettle

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[peteru]

Family friends booked someone from Tasmania to come and give a private two day cob oven building workshop in November. I'll be participating, but until then, all I can suggest is Googling for "cob oven"

[AzJohnnyC]

Although it doesn't belong to me, I had the pleasure of cooking a few hundred pizzas on this Italian oven this past weekend.

[Gumb]

A mate of mine was around on the weekend. He built his own pizza oven and did it properly. When he saw my Kamado and I told him what it could do, I think he might go down that track. The pizza oven takes about 3 hours to heat up but also, in his own words, a $hit load of wood. After the novelty wears off, it doesn't get much use.

[FirePlay]

A mate of mine was around on the weekend. He built his own pizza oven and did it properly. When he saw my Kamado and I told him what it could do, I think he might go down that track. The pizza oven takes about 3 hours to heat up but also, in his own words, a $hit load of wood. After the novelty wears off, it doesn't get much use.

That's too long. Sounds like a brick oven? Too much thermal mass takes too long to heat up. A good backyard pizza oven for me would just have castable refractory lining, firebricks on the base and be well insulated. It would be less useful for throwing in a camp oven overnight after shutting it up without the thermal mass of a brick oven but it would use a lot less wood and start up a lot faster. Almost like a kamado but for wood... harder to direct grill on although you can set up a grill directly over the fire in the oven but it gets a bit fiddly.

Keep in mind firewood is a lot cheaper than charcoal!

[food&fish]

Been there done that built a pizza oven took a couple of months looked good used it a few times then sold the place
I called it the 9 day wonder used it about 9 times then wondered why the hell you built it
Give me the kamando any day
As for camp oven they fit perfect in the kamado
will post a photo when i find it

[FirePlay]

Don't worry, I'm saving up for one of these: http://www.komodokamado.com/

Might take awhile but good things come to those who wait and I've got my kettles to get me by in the meantime...

A fair bit cheaper than what some of my neighbours have spent on their pizza ovens too!

[food&fish]

Been there done that built a pizza oven took a couple of months looked good used it a few times then sold the place
I called it the 9 day wonder used it about 9 times then wondered why the hell you built it
Give me the kamando any day
As for camp oven they fit perfect in the kamado
will post a photo when i find it

Yep heres the photo

[urbangriller]

Nice!

Chris

[Gumb]

I agree, very nice indeed.

[Livewire]

F&F

I hope you took the fridge with the two kegs in for future use

Great "Mates" room

Glenn

[food&fish]

F&F

I hope you took the fridge with the two kegs in for future use

Great "Mates" room

Glenn

Na the new owners wanted the fridge i took the kegs and taps i had cause to go back to the place after 2 months
The fridge is turned off and full of mold the kids have wound the knobs off the bbq and the oven the aquaponic garden is all dead very disheartening
i guess its move on and dont look back