Wood fire pizza oven

Jimbeam3678

Jimbeam3678

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Went to a BBQ over the weekend and some had one of these things made by himself :eek:

Just like the ones you see in greece/Asia etc etc. Truly awesome pizza's cooked in 45 seconds and tasted about 10X's better then Dom's or pizza hut.

Any fellow OCUK have one of these or thought about building one? This one cost the hose circa £2000:o

Good fun cooking on it though :D

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If I ever get my own house , then I will be building one. Loads of plans on the net on how to build them, so you dont need expensive kits. Just some fireproof stones and clay.
 
AcidHell2 said:
If I ever get my own house , then I will be building one. Loads of plans on the net on how to build them, so you dont need expensive kits. Just some fireproof stones and clay.
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£2k was self built apparently those heat proof bricks are £2.50 each and they used over 200 IIRC I may of had a few at this point :p
 
It shouldn't cost that much, unless hes built something spectacular.
Complete self build kits only cost 800-several thousand.

2.50 is a bit much you can get them cheaper, but even 2.50 is only 500, heat prrof mortar is about £10-15 for 10kilos and screed is about £20 for 10 kilos.
 
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Maybe he was bigging it up! He did say he totally under estimated the work involved init. Either way it was a great thing to have at a party
 
My wife is from an Italian family and when we visit Italy, two of her uncles have these and they use them regularly, better climate tbh, but as the OP says they are awsome, so much so my father in law has always wanted one but never did, shame as he only lives 3 doors away from us :(
 
I built one this year, it did probably cost about £2000 all in. I use it to cook all sorts of stuff, pulled pork, beer can chicken, bread of course pizza too.

Heres a couple of pics off my phone.

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Roasting some tomatoes with garlic and rosemary to be blended down for a pizza tomato base.

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Ranger07 said:
Here is some pics of the build process.
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That's a lot of garden to lose in not such a big garden. Think our lass would put the kibosh on that if I tried it!

How deep did you go for the foundations?

Is that just a chiminea on the top or a special chimney?
 
Gilly said:
That's a lot of garden to lose in not such a big garden. Think our lass would put the kibosh on that if I tried it!

How deep did you go for the foundations?

Is that just a chiminea on the top or a special chimney?
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The missus didn't realise we needed a pizza oven until I started cooking on it, now we use it all the time so its a good use of space. Its near the fence as I'd already built a 50sqm deck from the rear of the house.

You can see on the first photo the base going down, up to the decking level it was infilled with concrete so its a fairly solid base.

Well spotted on the chiminea chimney, I just thought it looked nicer than the stainless steel one that came with the oven kit. So I took my chiminea apart and used that chimney instead.
 
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Imagine how many takeaway pizzas you could get for 2grand
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On the economics of it, once its built it costs almost nothing to run, I get logs for free.

And for example of the cost of making pizza's. I reckon they must be among the cheapest foods to produce. I had all my family over and a few friends for pizza, there was about 18 people in all. Just made a shed load of pizza's,(roughly 60-90secs per pizza) don't think it cost me much more than 30 quid. Other people brought salady stuff and booze so it was a really cheap night.

If you compare that to a dinner party where you do a starter, main and desert. I don't know exactly but I've spent probably £100-£150 on a far smaller group of people.

I'm looking forward to doing the xmas turkey and roast veg in it this year too. :)
 
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