Brick pizza oven anyone built one?

lovestrat74

I have a load of old stock bricks left over from various projects and am thinking if building a pizza oven.

Have you built one? If so what design did you go for?

Looking for ideas and some inspiration

Benm39

My next door neighbour did.  It's an awesome thing.  I'll ask him if he has a link to any plans etc

Stratavarious

You live somewhere with the climate for it?   Looked into it a few times.. then calculated the likelihood of good weather to use it  

lovestrat74

Benm39 said:

My next door neighbour did.  It's an awesome thing.  I'll ask him if he has a link to any plans etc

Nice one

bertie

not sure I fancy a brick pizza  TBH 

Benm39

https://ukwoodfiredovenforum.proboards.com/thread/1877/budget-pompeii-build-winchester is the link to my neighbour build.  I think you need to be registered to see the thread but he says there's loads of good advice on that forum.  Hope that helps @lovestrat74 ;

lovestrat74

Benm39 said:

https://ukwoodfiredovenforum.proboards.com/thread/1877/budget-pompeii-build-winchester is the link to my neighbour build.  I think you need to be registered to see the thread but he says there's loads of good advice on that forum.  Hope that helps @lovestrat74 ;

I'll check it out. Thanks!

robgilmo

Most people make them out of clay dont they?

munckee

You could make a mini garden prison for your kidnap victims?

EricTheWeary

robgilmo said:

Most people make them out of clay dont they?

On Great Pottery Throwdown they used pizza oven clay to make toilets. But yes clay and a very specific type of clay. But also bricks apparently. 

Kurtis

Clay or fire bricks to deal with the temps. 

pt22

Kurtis said:

Clay or fire bricks to deal with the temps. 

Indeed. I think the porosity and likelihood of water holding is what makes regular bricks quite dangerous for fires and pizza ovens. Risk of explosion. 

stonevibe

Was talking about making one of these on Friday night, great timing!

Kittyfrisk

If you already have some bricks that may or may not be suitable for pizza oven temperatures, then why not use them to build a base for an Ooni wood fired oven? 
https://uk.ooni.com

lovestrat74

Kittyfrisk said:

If you already have some bricks that may or may not be suitable for pizza oven temperatures, then why not use them to build a base for an Ooni wood fired oven? 
https://uk.ooni.com

They are Victorian stocks, some would have come from chimney breasts, so I couldn't see why they would not be suitable. Might need to use fireproof muck on the inside of the oven.

Kittyfrisk

lovestrat74 said:

Kittyfrisk said:

If you already have some bricks that may or may not be suitable for pizza oven temperatures, then why not use them to build a base for an Ooni wood fired oven? 
https://uk.ooni.com

They are Victorian stocks, some would have come from chimney breasts, so I couldn't see why they would not be suitable. Might need to use fireproof muck on the inside of the oven.

Vermiculite lining material 
https://www.real-fire.co.uk/fire-boards-2-c.asp