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IIIii cuurruummbahh!!!!
You mean too have good pizzas we gotta have one of those...
I'm in....
Thanks for the photo F&F and TC I am thinking that it could be a between two rooms and be wetback! free hot water. Been waiting for that TA.
We cook on gas and heat the house and water with solid fuel.
Good to cook bread and cakes in and anything else tha needs to be hot.
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Another thought we had at the time (after we put the chimney up mind you) was to use copper piping either through the vault walls or wrapped in a coil around the chimney, and use it to heat water. You could heat the house by ducting the chimney though the house with a fan. Not a lot of heat escapes from the surface of the oven (which is the whole point) I can keep my hand on the surface of the oven when it is fully heated, probably due to the 1/2 inch of wool, 2 inches of perlite/clay coating and 1 inch of capping.

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these are pics of my pizza oven. I bought 11000 bricks over 100yrs old for $350 i made the oven and paved the area in front and still had bricks over for another 50 m2 of paving. It cooks pizza in about 4 mins. I also bake bread and roast and veg. Cooking outside in summer makes sence in qld and in winter we sit around it for warmth.

that's sweeeeeeeeeeeet. 4 minutes eh? At least if you're hungry their aint no 40 minute wait a your joint!!

sweet pics.

40 min must be standard issue time quoted, i live 1 km from the pizza shop and that what they quote me for delivery too!

Geez - I'd love any of those beauties. Looked into making one once, but the materials were too expensive. Obviously I was doing it the wrong way.

Everytime this thread pops up, I am under more pressure from H to build/get one built

What, C1 was over and you didn't get him to knock one up before breakfast?

Niiiiiice.... I have been meaning to make one for a looong time, just one of those things I have never quite got around to doing.. I chased up the book by Kiko Denzer http://www.intabas.com/kikodenzer.html A brilliant book that shows how to build a cheap cob oven using clay, soil, and straw..

Damn it.. The place that I had lined up for the pissa oven on the back verandah now has a bloody barrel aquaponics system there.......

Nah he blew it there eh!

Did get a bag of c/ment one morning for brekkie though!

[quote="earthbound"]I chased up the book by Kiko Denzer http://www.intabas.com/kikodenzer.html A brilliant book that shows how to build a cheap cob oven using clay, soil, and straw..
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The Kiko Denzer book is fantastic to just look at (Monya, if you really want some pressure, get that for your lady ), we built a small cob oven from that book at our old place and it was great.
Another good book for anyone looking at building an oven is Russell Jeavons 'Your brick oven, building it & baking in it', it's an Aussie book with recipes at the back and really simple building instructions...

Really nice design bluefin, very rustic look, makes it really Australian. Yeah, winter pizza cooking is great. With ours once you finish cooking I just close the flue and the heat radiates a good 2 metres.

If you really stoke up the fire, get it really roaring for a couple of hours, untill the bricks 'soak' up as much heat as possible, you can get away with 6-8 pizzas, a casserole and/or roast, wait a bit then breads and cakes. Ours stays too hot to touch inside for about 18 hours.

Any fire bricks are ideal for making pizza ovens, by fire bricks I mean bricks that have been fired at a higher temperatures. A heat proof cement can be made using 1.5 parts portland cement, 2 parts silica sand, 2 parts fireclay and 1.5 parts crushed perlite. For gaps use enough water to get into cookie dough consistancy, add a bit more water as a 'glue'. It should survive up to 1500 degrees C.

Thanks TC!!

i got my design from russells book. I went to ring around for refactory materials and a got hold of a guy quite accidentaly and he was a rep for a refactory company. He had a heap of castable refactory cement good for 1500 deg cel normally 150 dollars a bag i got three for fifty bucks. Then he said come out to the shed. He had insulfrax insulation material space age stuff got a roll for 30 dollars about a 10th of the normal price. So the facade is 100 yr old but the insulation is 21st century. It took a mate and i about two weeks most of that time was waiting for the concrete to cure. Build it and they will come is an apt quote best pizzas in town. I make all my own bases and freeze left over dough to use again. We cooked roast pork and veg followed by apple pie last night. Having it outside means one can potter around the yard and check occasionall. When friends drop over you dont have to be in the kitchen away from the party action.