[Homestead] Outside pizza oven, tiled
Gene GeRue
genegerue at ruralize.com
Mon Feb 18 13:04:44 EST 2008
On Feb 17, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Rob wrote:
> For the wood fired outdoor oven you really need to take a look at the
> book "The Bread Builders".
> http://www.amazon.com/Bread-Builders-Hearth-Loaves-Masonry/dp/1890132055
> Dan Wing (one of the two authors of the Bread Builders) has an oven
> on a trailer and had some good advice (somewhere) on building one of
> those.
Rob, do you own this book? I went to Amazon and read all 27 of the
customer reviews. Most were of glowing praise. On the point of
building an outside oven they confused me. Many said the book provides
detailed instructions. Several said such instructions were lacking. At
least one said you have to send for plans.
Along the right margin at the beginning of the reviews are three other
books on the subject: "Building a Wood-Fired Oven for Bread and
Pizza," "Build Your Own Earth Oven, 3rd Edition: A Low-Cost Wood-Fired
Mud Oven," and "Your Brick Oven: Building It and Baking in it."
So there are four choices. Two are rated low by customers. One is
rated a half-star higher than "The Bread Builders."
Issues in my mind include whether to use fire bricks for the inside of
the dome or not, of what material to build the floor, whether to have
a flu, and how to handle the weather-proofing question.
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