Perfect Pizza Ovens

Building A Brick Pizza Oven - It's A Fun Project!

Having your own brick pizza oven built at home is both a creative and exciting project.  The design can be tailored to your exact requirements and this will no doubt prove to be a great success.  The bricks used  in the construction of such an oven are a specialised thermal variety of brick known as refractory brick. They are designed to absorb and retain heat over a sustained period  without degradation or crumbling. This factor is so important where food is concerned as pieces of flaking masonary on top of your pizza will not be welcome, so cheaper non fireproof bricks are not an option here.

You can opt to have all or some of the non cooking surface of bricks rendered with a special heat resistant cement and painted, if you like that look.  The brick pizza oven can be built freestanding or integrated in a wall. Building such an oven is well within the ability of a competent DIY enthusiast provided a proper schematic plan is followed. There are certain conditions and rules that govern size, ratios and dimensions which affect heat generation and do need to be observed. This is not complicated and will provide an optimised and efficient oven.

If you plan to build a wall type oven, you may wish to use the opportunity to set up a barbecue area as well, creating your own outdoor kitchen area. You can add tiled work areas and some handy storage alcoves too. This can be designed to blend in very well within the yard landscape and will provide endless amusement and entertainment for your family and friends as they can watch and smell their meals being prepared.

Once you have built your brick pizza oven you can start to cook and learn how to light up the wood fire quickly and easily. Light kindling of cardboard, small twigs and sticks set the fire, followed by larger pieces of wood and finally when it is roaring, you can add logs. in a normal black oven, where food is cooking in the firing chamber, you can add your pizza adjacent to the fire or push the embers to one side if you prefer. Pizzas cook rapidly, you will hardly have time to get a plate ready! The pizza dough is sealed and baked so fast as it is sitting directly on the stone or brick base.

The heat inside the oven is incredibly fierce that you will need to place your pizza inside with a peel or pizza paddles. This enables the pizza to be slipped in and out with ease and prevents you burning your wrists and arms. 

A little salad, a glass of wine and you are all set for a fantastic meal.  Once you have cooked pizza in your very own brick pizza oven you will be converted for good!