Build A Wood Fired Pizza Oven

If you re using wood screw the pieces together.

Build a wood fired pizza oven.

With the snips or hacksaw cut the mesh to 35 inches by 35 inches. After you have dug the trenches you should build a wooden formwork and install it into position. Build a mold out of melamine faced mdf by first cutting a large piece for the bottom of the mold then four side pieces. You re after a solid square box approximately 1m high and 120cm square.

These will frame the oven s mouth. Pour the concrete foundation for the wood fired pizza oven. Wood fired pizza oven foundation plans step 2. Place 3 bricks across the front of it on edge.

With a wood fired pizza oven in your backyard you ll be able to bake more than just pizza. The oven will holds heat for long periods of time so the day after you fire it up for pizza you can. Bridge the top with a 24 angle iron facing up and in. Add 4 more on either side extending back to the arch.

Next install a rigid structure of rebars as you can see in the image. On each side of the front of the oven stack 2 layers of 3 bricks on edge running front to back. These will act as a heat sink warming up then radiating heat back up through the oven. Cast the slab as close as possible to the eventual location of the pizza oven.

The illustrations and photographs in this guide make it a joy to read and you can tell how much work.