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  • Pizza Oven Plans & Photos from Steven of Tiny House Listings

    Pizza Oven Plans & Photos from Steven of Tiny House Listings

    Here is a different take on the portable backyard pizza oven by Steven of TinyHouseListings.com . Steven sent me these photos of the brick pizza oven he built. Here’s Steve’s note to us:

    I love your website and loved the post on your pizza oven. After I saw it I posted a wanted ad on Craigslist for clay fire bricks and the next day went to pick up 100 of them from a fellow for free.

    I played around with the bricks in my back yard and came up with a way to setup an oven with no mortar, no rails, no nothing except stacked bricks. My wife and I cooked 4 pizzas last night and they turned out nicely.

    Since it was my first time setting up something like this it was a little crooked (you can tell especially in the pic from behind) but I plan to take it down and restack it. One other recommendation I would make should you decide to take this approach is to make the oven about two or three layers of bricks deeper to allow more heated air to circulate over the pizza. My oven is only 4 layers deep since I ran out of bricks! Once I get a couple more I’ll make it deeper.

    When building it be sure to build all of the layers of the wall together. In other words, lay all bricks down for each row on the entire side of the wall, then move up to the next layer so they bricks can rest on each other for support.

    I think its brilliant that Steven posted a ‘wanted’ ad on craigslist looking for bricks, I had not thought of doing that, I kept looking in craigslist for people offering bricks. Smart.

    Dry Fit Pizza Oven by Steven
    rear view of pizza oven
    Fire = Good

    Other Pizza Oven Plans and Photos Posts on GardenFork:

    Brick Pizza Oven Video and Plans GF TV video

    Brick Oven Plans and Photos from a GardenFork Fan

    Pizza Oven Photos from John

    Backyard Brick Oven Discussion! GF Radio

    Homemade Pizza Recipe : Christmas Eve

    How to make a bread peel or pizza peel : Gardenfork.tv

     

     

     

  • Backyard Brick Oven Discussion! GF Radio

    Backyard Brick Oven Discussion! GF Radio

    We talk about the Simple Backyard Brick Oven Plans and Video. The pizza oven construction is discussed, and how to source angle iron using freecycle techniques. Placement of the wood fire within the Brick Oven and the difference between our simple brick oven and those pizza ovens in a restaurant fill out the conversation. Its the perfect brick oven for a pizza party. Mike talks about the ritual of building the oven is akin to BBQ, the ritual of doing it. Having your friends help build the pizza oven when they come over to eat would be fun. How to cut Durock, a cement backer board used in the Brick Pizza Oven is best scored with a utility knife.

    What kind of dough recipe to use in the pizza oven comes up. Eric used this pizza dough recipe and found it to be good.

    Mike asks if people remember a mimeograph machine, and dates himself immediately, and talks about fishing in winter.

    Monica joins us to talk about what Eric should make with what he has in his fridge, the consensus seems to be Mexican Casserole. We also talk about Monica’s trip to Los Angeles.

    The 7 bone roast mystifies Eric, and Monica suggests visiting your local butcher who knows about meat. Stew meat, what kind to use, and how Monica and Mike make it is discussed, use what you got seems to be the theme here. Mike has a great suggestion to save food from catering platters, put them in the freezer and use them to make stews.

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