Building a 4 in 1 and looking for input

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Mase

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Mar 19, 2021
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I will be building an outdoor kitchen with the following items: charcoal grill, vertical smoker (may be fed by the grill), pizza oven, and a 3 foot square fire pit (may use to feed the smoker instead of the grill). I want to use block construction for support and brick for inside the smoker. I will use fire brick in the grill and fire box (if I decide to use the fire pit as a heat source). I do not have the room to run it in a straight line, so I will be using a 90° lay out. The patio is 12 feet long from the house and 12 feet wide. What are your ideas on a layout?
 
Sounds like an interesting project Mase, I just finished something a little similar and its posted a few lines down in the brick builds.
I did the exact same thing using both 3 inch wide and 6 inch wide cinder blocks to support brick walls. In hind site I'm not completly sure the cinder block is needed except somewhere that you are very concerned with the structure strength, two brick walls with the standard ties between them, and insulation seemed to be very solid and is used in many wall builds, but I'm not a mason so take that with a grain of salt.

I used Visio to create a basic outline to scale, keeping in mind actual brick and block sizes and mortar joints, you can create a top down look that will help you determine how to design it based on your size limitations and how big you want everything. As a starting point I found a commercial smoker I liked and used the cook chamber and fire chamber sizes, along with Feldon's pit builder calculator. The size of the smoker will probably drive everything else.
 
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Here is something I just finished building. Maybe this can give you some ideas. You can throw the pizza oven to the left side of the smoker and maybe a fire pit to the left of the pizza setup.
 

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