Easy Brick Pizza Oven

[Daryl]

I was talking to a guy who is building a pizza oven. He hasn't seen this video but the design is almost the same.  The only difference is he is adding a door, flue pipe, and cob mix for insulation/mortar. 

This is was my very first brick oven too.  I want to share the video because this oven really is a great first step into building outdoors with mass.  Since the stove is temporary, there is no risk if you want to change things up, move the oven to a new location, or not have a permanent structure.  If you haven't tried it...you should!  Go for it!  

   

[photoman290]

thanks for the link. when i rebuild my RMH with refractory i know what to do with the bricks now. i have 75 bricks already so just need another 20 or so. i was watching a large pizza oven at an event i was at and noticed the lack of smoke out the front once it was hot. it just had a rectangular flue about 3 inches deep and the width of the oven. the height was about 2 foot. no door. seemed to draw very well. a piece of angle iron across the front with 2 bricks on edge before the main roof would give the same effect.

[kpl]

Hi,

Finally there is a topic where I can show something too, not only watch and read:)

I also tried to cook some pizzas this summer, so had to improvise temporary pizza oven too. Current one looks like this: www.dropbox.com/sh/safxv4y0b6dsqgq/AAAJDNHrJ6yFIxmpjJ-JclYKa/pizza_oven#lh:null-2014-07-04%2021.01.03.jpg
This is the third version, second one was an attempt to use rocket-stove principle there, but that one was complete failure. I could not get it hot enough the way I had built it.

Floor and ceiling is done using corundum plates 3x44x44 cm, that were lying around in the yard, as my father was building kilns for ceramics years ago.
There are some peaces of rockwool too, which happened to be same thickness as corundum, so helped to stack it together.

Sure it's ugly. Hopefully I will have a chance to build a proper, pizza oven.


The block in front is movable, I leave a gap when there is fire burning inside, and close it when it is gone. That way heat stays in longer. Block itself has quite good insulation properties, it's called keramzit here, do not know if it's used elsewhere. Not quite designed for high-temp use.

[Daryl]

That is cool! What a score with the plates too! I'm jealous. And now very hungry. Jump on in and post.

[kpl]

Had to build it quickly, for the party on the next day. Has to be heated for about two hours, then it's hot enough to bake pizza in about 3 minutes. Pizza baking is absolutely not a common thing here in a nordic country, so most probably I am doing it absolutely wrong, but we love the result anyway.

I still want to build it with a rocket heater inside, but not quite the traditional way. General idea is to have the oven more wide than deep, and have the burner exhaust in the oven cavity at one side, not below the floor. Not sure if it would be able to heat the floor hot enough, probably need to direct some of the exhaust directly under the floor.

[Daryl]

If you made pizza, then you aren't doing anything wrong.   I know a couple potters who have used their experience with kilns to build ovens so you seem to be on the right track.  I would like to see your hybrid rocket/pizza oven when you get it completed. 

[lightworker]

Daryl:

Found this site about a year ago when I was designing me wood fired pizza oven. This is a great resource! I wanted to build a rocket fired version and was excited to find Rectifier's thread on reverse engineering the Riley Pellet Burner because I wanted to fbe able to fire with wood sticks and pellets in a rocket as well as in the oven. I built a four inch but had I known how long it would take to get up to 400 F I would have made a 5 or 6 inch rocket. As it is, I can keep it up tp temp with the rocket once I have brought it up with a fire in the stove. Will post pictures of the build if anyone is interested.

John

[Daryl]

Jan 3, 2016 19:27:18 GMT -8 lightworker said:

Daryl:

Found this site about a year ago when I was designing me wood fired pizza oven. This is a great resource! I wanted to build a rocket fired version and was excited to find Rectifier's thread on reverse engineering the Riley Pellet Burner because I wanted to fbe able to fire with wood sticks and pellets in a rocket as well as in the oven. I built a four inch but had I known how long it would take to get up to 400 F I would have made a 5 or 6 inch rocket. As it is, I can keep it up tp temp with the rocket once I have brought it up with a fire in the stove. Will post pictures of the build if anyone is interested.

John

Post the pics, John.

[lightworker]

Once I figure out how to post jpeg photos to this reply site.

[lightworker]

Daryl:

The forum has reached it's 1 Mb attachment space. More space is required for me to upload my pictures. That is the message I received when I went to attach my first picture.  Let me know when space is available and I will upload. 

John

[peterberg]

Sorry John,
There won't be more attachment space available in the near future. Best thing to do is upload it to Dropbox or some site like that and link to it. That could also be your own website. I am doing that for years now and it still works.

[Daryl]

I use Photobucket.

[dkeav]

imgur is another good option for image hosting. it isn't quite as "heavy" as photobucket

[kpl]

I have some pics of my own pizza-baking contraption from last summer. Inside built from some old firebricks, surrounded by cheap 10cm thick blocks which have ceramic pebbles as insulator (we call it keramzit here). Those hold up the heat quite well.
It was quite easy to overheat inside over 400 degrees C, so i had to let it cool down before actual baking, and I never detected outside temps above 60 degrees.
Those 3cm thick plates are corundum, which I had laying around, those came from old ceramic kilns my father built or repaired years ago. They are extremely difficult to cut even with diamond blade.
Seams were filled with high-temp clay, mixed with sand and some glass wool fibers. Those seem to help avoid cracking. Added chunks of wool, covered with same clay, to fill where bricks did not fit properly, or had broken off bigger pieces.
Inside is 44cm wide IIRC, and abit deeper than that, and the far end is a bit deeper, hot coals can sit there.
Look for the files marked as 2015 here:
www.dropbox.com/sh/tpafhwvy1sb6v46/AAAcBtsK91JC6wgvql-Q-yH8a?dl=0

Dropbox sometimes throws a dialog, asking to log in, that should be just closed, it will show files anyway.

[Daryl]

Jan 12, 2016 0:09:26 GMT -8 kpl said:

I have some pics of my own pizza-baking contraption from last summer. Inside built from some old firebricks, surrounded by cheap 10cm thick blocks which have ceramic pebbles as insulator (we call it keramzit here). Those hold up the heat quite well.
It was quite easy to overheat inside over 400 degrees C, so i had to let it cool down before actual baking, and I never detected outside temps above 60 degrees.
Those 3cm thick plates are corundum, which I had laying around, those came from old ceramic kilns my father built or repaired years ago. They are extremely difficult to cut even with diamond blade.
Seams were filled with high-temp clay, mixed with sand and some glass wool fibers. Those seem to help avoid cracking. Added chunks of wool, covered with same clay, to fill where bricks did not fit properly, or had broken off bigger pieces.
Inside is 44cm wide IIRC, and abit deeper than that, and the far end is a bit deeper, hot coals can sit there.
Look for the files marked as 2015 here:
www.dropbox.com/sh/tpafhwvy1sb6v46/AAAcBtsK91JC6wgvql-Q-yH8a?dl=0

Dropbox sometimes throws a dialog, asking to log in, that should be just closed, it will show files anyway.

That is so cool! & the pizza looks yummy!!   I'm hungry!!