Build A Backyard Wood Fired Oven

The best tasting pizza is cooked in a wood burning pizza oven built out of brick.

Build a backyard wood fired oven.

Next place the roast in the oven and close the door. It s been that way for years but we continue to cook our pizza in standard ovens and settle for soggy or burnt pizza. We stacked four cinderblocks high to get the height we needed stagger the stacks of cinderblocks leaving the holes on the blocks exposed so that you can fill them with concrete. Build the sidewalls for the base mold.

Add wood to your oven and create a large slow burning fire. Once the oven has reached 500 degrees fahrenheit 260 degrees celsius your oven is ready for a roast. Although most people will build ovens like this with the goal of cooking a pizza pie you re certainly not limited to this type of food. For the pizza aficionado a wood fired brick oven is the pinnacle.

With the circular saw rip another piece of mdf wood into strips that are 2 3 4 inches wide and 36 inches long. Unfortunately these types of ovens are usually large expensive and complicated to build leaving most of us to keep. Build your own wood fired earth oven with this easy to make oven and bake crusty breads tasty pizzas and roasted meats. Nothing else cooks a pie the same way with the 800 f 1 000 f temperatures needed to get that thin crisp layer of smoky char covering a moist airy crust.

Where you ve got a flame you can cook almost anything including baking bread cooking fish meats or anything else you d like to try. Attach these sidewalls to the sides of the concrete mold bottom with the 1 5 8 inch drywall screws. Using 8 inch cinderblocks or concrete blocks build an l shape structure that will fit the oven and provide counter space. First carefully rake out the coals onto the ground killing the fire.

Make a roast overnight. Includes diagrams creating the oven floor and mixing mud. Inject the silicone to all 90 degree angles in the mold and smooth down with your finger.