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11 Apr 2009 07:27 AEST
wally Schiel
From Bullsbrook Wa
I have just spent 2 hours going thru the web looking at pizza ovens. The sight I found most useful is traditionaloven.com, guy called Rado, & I am about to order the CD kit & build my own. I love his sight & his wish list! Check it out, its worth it! For $25-$30 its about the same price as a pizza in a restaurant!!!
I am starting my base as soon as it gets light and I can see what I am doing!!
23 Nov 2008 11:16 AEST
Graeme Brady
We built a brick oven earlier this year without any brick laying knowledge and the only thing to Guide us was a copy of Build Your Own Brick Oven by Russell Jeavons borrowed from the library. We used an old water tank as the stand. Poured a slab of concrete mixed with vermiculite (insulation). Lashed out on some granite slabs for the floor. Ordinary house bricks for the oven and an outer wall ans filled it with and rendered the top with vermiculite morter to keep the heat in.
20 Nov 2008 01:34 AEST
TrAcY
Our oven is good Dave, we are going to build an external casing around the existing dome and insulate it as we get pretty cold weather here over winter and want to conserve the heat. We had a Live Earth party in 2006, the weather was really cold, everyone was rugged up and we had the oven fired up, everyone was asked to bring some toppings for the pizzas and we cooked about 40 or 50 pizzas in the night. Sour dough breads, roasts, veges and leaving meringues to cook over night for the kids.
19 Nov 2008 05:14 AEST
Tony
I have made a few over the years and decided to make a kit. I reckon it is the simplest and cheapest way to make a wood fired oven. It takes 1 day and costs less than $500.
Have a look at www.theoutdooroven.com.au
19 Nov 2008 03:41 AEST
Tracy
We did a pizza making day course at a winery ( best fun) we got started on ours asap and are so proud of how it turned out and for under $500, it's a ripper. We have many parties and weekends full of yummy food all coooked in our oven. Now all we need to do is write a cookbook !!
19 Nov 2008 01:41 AEST
Jul1
Go for it Denise, you can cover the Clay with a cement render, or build a simple roof, or just leave it in the weather. The Clay becomes very hard after firing and will take years to erode, and if it does erode, very simple and quick to patch up with some more clay. I have recently made one and on the weekend had my 2nd go at making Pizzas, nothing more magic than watching them rise and cook before my eyes, and they tasted even better.
19 Nov 2008 12:13 AEST
Marty Roberts
There are people like me, who build traditional, wood-fired ovens, and love to see how they transform not only the gardens and outdoor areas of people's houses, but people's lives as well. Neighbourhoods come alive to the smells of bread and pizza baked on stone. Gardens become gathering and meeting places, where people come together around the oven to bake and chat, reviving a sense of 'community' so lacking today. Wood-ovens are beautiful, and you can have one too.
19 Nov 2008 11:38 AEST
denise
I read (somewhere) that the clay ovens require some weatherproofing.This has made us undecisive to make one.
14 Nov 2008 03:40 AEST
Gino
I am building one at the moment with my mate who is a bricklayer. We are using normal house bricks for the base , I am using proper fier bricks for the oven it self so the oven is done properly. I bought the heat bricks from the supplier at Hindmarsh.i cant wait till it is finished.
14 Nov 2008 01:39 AEST
Dave
Great to hear of people doing it themselves. And the number of websites out there regarding wood fired ovens suggests they are very popular. Thanks for the tip-offs. And Tracey, your oven sounds amazing!
13 Nov 2008 11:56 AEST
Reg Westerlee
With no back yards, cranky neighbours & a bag of firewood priced similar to a Hyundai, most of us urban dwellers can seriously only dream about the joys of the wood fired oven experience. Unless of course you ring the "Pizza Maestro", who will park his trailer in your driveway for a few hours, complete with wood fired pizza oven on top, & churn out the scrummiest delights. Best of all, hes dust before the inspector from the EPA gets the cranky phone call!
Keep up the great work Dave!
12 Nov 2008 09:48 AEST
Callum
Dave, check out this website:
http://www.traditionaloven.com/
This website is by a guy in Brisbane who can supply detailed plans and photos on how to build your woodfired oven. Tonnes of advice etc throughout the site and heaps of photos of other people's success stories.
12 Nov 2008 09:45 AEST
Jimmy
Buying in kit form is expensive, at least $2000, plus you still need to erect a slab plus a base to sit it on.There is however no comparison to wood fired pizza. Good website for imported kits refrax.com.au or google Verona Ovens and talk to Alex from the south coast who grew up building ovens in Switzerland/Italy.
11 Nov 2008 11:37 AEST
TrAcY
We built our pizza oven from gathering large stones for the base, filling it with old concrete and rubble and sand etc. We collected old unused bricks from friends people around the neighbourhood.
We had some old fire bricks on our property that we used for the base of the oven which is approx. 1800 in diameter. It took a few months of gathering but only a few days to build. Our middle son was the right size to fix up the inside and fun was had by all in the process.
11 Nov 2008 11:40 AEST
Dave
It would be great to hear from others about their experiences installing wood fired ovens. I am unsure whether to build from scratch, build from a kit, or buy it ready made.
11 Nov 2008 10:25 AEST
Therese Chenoweth
We have a wood oven but (thank God!) we had it supplied and installed by a professional. It took three expert guys around three full days to install the base, the oven itself and not least the 800 kgs. of clay that forms the rounded outside! Total weight is 1.8 tonnes. We love it to bits. Only problem is it's alienated our asthmatic neighbours, even though the smoke is negligible for 15 minutes or so! Also firing up demands that the entire menu is cooked in the oven, not wasting wood.
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