Doug's New Pizza Oven

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:50 am

Well, after years of thinking about building a wood burning pizza oven I finally decided to build one this summer. After almost 5 months it was complete enough to cook my first pizzas. Here are a couple of photos of the final product and the first pizza. The pizzas we cooked were awesome. Need to learn about the oven a little more but I can see this oven is going to be a lot of fun.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:16 am

Nice job Doug. How long does it take to get up to temp? When is the PBBQA fall supper going to be held? I suppose you are going to bake bread and roast meat in there too? I hope you took a bunch of "build" pictures to share with us.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:22 am

That is so cool Doug . Looks like you did a great job . What a way to set off your back yard .. Cool

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:42 am

Holy S&%# Doug! Awesome! You've been holding out on us! That is really cool, and it looks like you did a great job. Do you have pics from the build?

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:35 pm

wow wicked good job!!!
if you have more pictures of the build could you post them please

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 3:08 pm

I'll have an all dressed...shipped to my door please....

holy that is nice....

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:21 pm

Doug that is really nice! There was a shown that aired here in the states -BBC America. Coooking with Jamie or something like that? He cooked all sorts of things in an outdoor oven just like yours or at least similar. I was always surprised when he called it BBQ. Was a great show! You will get a lot of use from it.

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:53 pm

Hopefully this works. Just click on the photo and hopefully it will take you to my album.

I do hope to use this for meat and bread as well.

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:13 pm

Thanks for sharing Doug. Would that happen to be a shot of JD on the hearth in the last picture?

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:48 am

thx for sharing the album,damn how many fire bricks did you need to use

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:28 am

Great job, Doug.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:09 pm

Wow I sure would like to cook a pizza in that,I know what my Bakers Pride 8100 watt can do, but that must be awesome. You have nothing but envy.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:44 pm

There are approximately 240 fire bricks in the oven chamber and hearth.

It just so happens to be a shot of Captain Morgan spiced rum. Kind of a celebration drink for the first fire.

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:54 pm

How has the pizza oven been working Doug?

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:32 am

I have only used it once so far this winter, and it worked great. Each time I use it, it seems to be getting better. Just been too cold here. Not that the oven wouldn't work, I am just much of a whimp to go outside to cook. Hopefully get to use it in the next week or two.