I think I am gonna do this!

[hotnspicy]

I have always wanted a wood fired pizza oven but its an expensive luxury.  I saw this the other day..  http://thehomesteadsurvival.com/build-homemade-earth-oven-project/#.USZahFc72Sk Seems like this is right up my alley & gonna put it on the bucket list for the summer.

 

[dirtsailor2003]

Check out the pizza oven in this thread I posted. Could be done without the metal frame too!

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/131323/eight-whole-chickens-and-blow-torch-nachos

 

[dirtsailor2003]

I hit the send button before I finished my post. A friend built one very similar to the one there, out of shape-able refractory cement. Can withstand temps up to 2000* and it works really good.

 

[hotnspicy]

That looks pretty cool!  It goes to show ya that everything doesn't have to be high tech to be functional.  I am gonna have to come up with a way to get mine off the ground too but could be ok with it just being a couple feet up.  I don't wanna have to get all the way on the ground to look in the oven.  I have had really nice pastries & other things from old earth ovens on Indian reservations.  I was thinking about doing something adobe-esque.
 

 

[linguica]

A pizza /bread oven is soo great. I built a fire pit type BBQ in my yard and was thinking about making it into a wood fired oven.

 

[farmnbum]

Here is a decent book discussing building earthen ovens.


I've been wanting to build a wood fired oven for a couple of years now. Of course I want the nice brick oven not the earthen oven because bigger has to be better, right? 

I've also thought about building an earthen oven to play with then building a brick oven later. I'm currently acquiring bricks when I can find some cheap but that's hard to come by these days.