You’re here because you’re thinking of building a pizza oven. You can buy them, but they cost thousands of dollars. THOUSANDS. You can build a pizza oven for around $150 in a few weekends.
If you missed the tutorials on how to build your own pizza oven, click through the links below.
How to Build and Use a Pizza Oven
How to Build a Cob Pizza Oven Part 1. (the base and the basic form)
How to Build a Cob Pizza Oven Part 2. (making cob & forming it)
How to Build a Cob Pizza Oven Part 3. (the insulation layer and lime plaster)
After a bit of money a lot of work and a little bit of time, the pizza oven is complete. I’ve been using it for 4 years now and it’s held up perfectly. I haven’t had a single problem with it. Since building the oven I’ve also built a custom insulated pizza oven door that can withstand heat so I can keep the oven closed while baking things like bread or whole chickens.
But what do I use this pizza oven for mainly? Pizza of course.
As you can see, the fire goes right inside the oven. And it keeps going for 3 hours.
The great thing is when it isn’t being used to make pizza, bread, roasts or pie it still looks really great and inviting.
If you aren’t prepared to spend a few weekends building your own pizza oven but still want pizza that’s as good as wood oven pizza (at least nearly as good) just go and read this post of mine. It’s is an insanely detailed post on how to make the BEST pizza in your oven.
But yeah. It does look its best with a crackling fire.
I have potted herbs all around the backyard to use when making pizza or chicken or whatever else I might throw in the oven. You haven’t lived until you’ve had a wood fired pizza with fresh basil on it straight out of your backyard oven. Unless you’re an astronaut. If you’re an astronaut that trumps eating pizza. No it doesn’t. I was just kidding. Pizza rules.
As does bread. This shot I must admit has been set up. I actually baked the bread in the oven the day before and just rolled it out for this photoshoot. But it was cooked in the oven and it did turn out as perfect as it looks.
3 loaves fit in the oven and they took about 2o minutes.
So every night when I have to do horrible tasks like turn the compost pile or wash the green bin that smells like the death of a thousand rotting monkeys, I still smile. Because I get to see this.
If you stumbled upon here by chance, I made that pizza oven. And you can to. I have a 4 post tutorial on how to do it.
For everyone else, I TOLD you it was easy. Once you get past the sore feet, massive ass you build up and straw covered feet you won’t be able to imagine how you even lived without a pizza oven. Even if you don’t like pizza. I mean look at the thing. AND unlike most cottages or swimming pools, it’s 4 season friendly.
Now I suppose you want to see it in action and I can’t blame you for that. I had my mother and Fish Pedicure over the other night and made them pizza. It was their first time eating pizza from my wood burning oven.
Just the three of us lounging by the oven, talking, laughing and having, really, what can only be described as a picture perfect day. The kind of picture perfect day you’re only likely to find on the Instagram or Twitter account of someone who constantly needs you to know how perfect their husband/wife/children/life is. You know the type.
Well now I’m one of them ’cause take a gander at this.
Pizza Oven
After the bleeding knuckles, the sand in your underwear and the straw covered feet you too can have your own pizza oven. It takes about a month at a leisurely pace working weekends. And THIS is why …
So there you have it. The perfect life of this little blogger.
If you noticed the crack in the oven (and chances are yours might develop a crack too) don’t worry about it. It’s a small crack in the lime plaster which expands when the oven heats and closes again when it cools down. It’s just cosmetic. You can fix it if you want but you don’t have to.
I hope you liked my little tutorial that lasted for an entire week on how to build a pizza oven. As I’ve mentioned if it seems like the sort of thing you want to do you need to read my tutorials, buy this book
and watch these videos from architect Sigi Koko who specializes in building naturally and specifically cob. Once you do all those things I think you’ll be fully prepared to build your own oven.
I’m not at all sure how you can become an astronaut.
