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 Post subject: Re: Brick Pizza Oven
PostPosted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 3:42 pm 
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Made the oven door this morning and the turkey just went in. It's pretty windy so I decided to leave coal down the sides and gap the door about 2" to let the coals burn and block the wind....fingers crossed.


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 Post subject: Re: Brick Pizza Oven
PostPosted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:49 pm 
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Turned out amazing. Best Turkey EVER!


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 Post subject: Re: Brick Pizza Oven
PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 7:41 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Brick Pizza Oven
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Took nearly every clamp I own but I got the the warped mess of a door straight and now have a place to add insulation should I even get to it.


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 Post subject: Re: Brick Pizza Oven
PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:17 pm 
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How often is the pizza oven getting used? I'm helping the guy behind me with one. Right now we just stacked bricks on top of the fire brick slab he made and put a metal roof on it from scrap. We have used it a couple times now. First was a disaster since neither of us researched what was involved with heating one up. Didn't realize it was a 2 hour process that involved moving the fire around in the oven.


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 Post subject: Re: Brick Pizza Oven
PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:06 pm 
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kkrace wrote:
How often is the pizza oven getting used? I'm helping the guy behind me with one. Right now we just stacked bricks on top of the fire brick slab he made and put a metal roof on it from scrap. We have used it a couple times now. First was a disaster since neither of us researched what was involved with heating one up. Didn't realize it was a 2 hour process that involved moving the fire around in the oven.


Through the winter we didn't use it and are currently out of wood....but planning to order some and fire it up. In the non-covid warm months we use it at least every 2 weeks....for sure anytime we have people over because it just cooks everything so nice.

Hat up takes a while but I don't move the fire around. I build a pretty big fire right in the middle, light it with a 100k btu propane weed burner, and keep adding wood for 45 minutes to an hour. By them there are a lot of coals but still a raging fire, I push all that to the back, maybe spread it to cover 90-120 degrees of the back wall, throw a couple more hunks of wood in and let it go about 10-15 minutes so the center cools down and the top of the done is "burned white" which means any and all soot has burned off which means the done is at least 800F, there is a pic a couple posts down. Floor temp of 550-750 seems to work pretty well for pizza, any hotter and you blacken the bottom, I bought a laser thing but you can also tell by throwing in some semolina flour and watching it....if it turns black when it hits the floor the floor is still too hot and you need a wait a bit more or plan to drop the pizza closer to the door. For sure it takes practice.....I have a habit of flipping the topping into the fire :(


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 Post subject: Re: Brick Pizza Oven
PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2021 7:35 pm 
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I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and they all started the fire right were you would put the pizza and then after it burned to coals they use sort of a metal hockey stick looking thing to push the coals off to the side and then after a while moving them to the other side. They then used a wet towel to do a quick mop on the surface to get up any remaining ash before tossing in the pizza.
There was a really good one of a guy cooking a steak in his. He built the fire right up front and had a heavy steel rack with 3 or 4 inch legs and put that directly over the coals


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 Post subject: Re: Brick Pizza Oven
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I have no idea why they would push the fire side to side, I've never seen that and after 20- minutes or so the 1 spot would be cool so it will have made no difference. During a party I'll have food and pizzas going in/out for a couple hours so....I don't get moving the fire. I can't see it doing any harm, I just don't see how it helps....maybe it warms the whole oven faster but I light BIG fires so.....

I have a hardwood wire brush/scraper about a 5 foot handle....I just push the fire with that. Then I use a damp towel wrapped around it to clean up the ash as you saw. I also have a commercial mixing paddle that is great for setting logs on the fire in the back of the oven without getting ash everywhere

For steak I push the fire to both sides instead of the back...it amazes guess as the meat goes in with the flames swirling, a trick from my brother. I had a big cast iron frying pan I bought for camping, that goes in for just a minute or 2 to get hot...it easy to over heat it. Then steak in the pan, pan in the ove, about 2 minutes, flip it, 2 more and its cooked.

Once the fire is done, sometimes I pull it out to speed things along, I put the door on and then we do bread or cookies to go with evening drinks. We, or at least me, try to make it an event and everyone whos been over has been amazed.


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 Post subject: Re: Brick Pizza Oven
PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:53 pm 
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Here's the tools I use
wooden peels to put the pizza, a couple longer serving peels

then a big metal peel to get them out, a small metal peel to turn them, the paddle I use to add wood, the wire brush. Then I also I have a metal hook that came with a fire pit I use to push chafing dishes in/out...I have 1/2 dozen of the chafing dishes, they are really handy, I use the 1/2 size. then the iron frying pan. that's it so far.


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 Post subject: Re: Brick Pizza Oven
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I think moving the fire helps get the floor to temp quickly? Most of the videos I watched all showed them doing similar. I think the idea is once you get one spot of the fire brick hot it will stay hot? I was thinking that spot would cool off but so far it hasn't. This is all new to me and my neighbor so we are just watching videos. It does seem to get the floor to a uniform temp this way in about an hour.

First attempt we just built fire in the back since that's what we saw in restaurants but that didn't work well at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djoub57k9Vk This is the one of the guy grilling the steak over the coals. Looked like a great way to grill.

It's been fun so far. He made a base on some cinder blocks and put down for large pavers on the cinder blocks and then put down the fire brick. So far the rest of it is just stacked bricks with no mortar since he hasn't had the time to finish it. He was going to move the pallet of bricks and I suggested just stacking them on the base rather than moving them further under the deck and we got carried away. Eventually I'll help him take it apart and mortar everything together but its nice that we get to experiment first. Its redneck right now but it works. I'll have to walk over later and post a couple pics.


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