Pizza Oven Progress with New Pics 3/6/2012 Finally Done

[justpassingthru]

Since Todd is coming from the East that would make it lop sided, we'll have to come from the west and even it out, ...two more won't make any difference since it sooo big, and for desert we can sample some of that Tahitian Vanilla ice cream you're gonna make.  

Fantastic!!!  I have a bad case of pizza oven envy.

Gene

 

[JckDanls 07]

I have an infrared point and shoot. I thought about the built in but if they failed it was going to be a pain to fix so I will just use my temp gun and it should be golden. We plan on doing a lot of different things in the oven - I think if I can get a deal on pork tenderloins I can do 15 - 20  at a time. There is a lot of cooking we can do with the oven



 
I think you are looking at the firewood storage in the lower part of the build. The fire goes inside the oven  and  the two layers of firebrick under the oven floor will help hold the temps real well.  I will be posting some more pics in the next day or so that show the insulation blanket and the chicken wire before we do the pearlite and concrete over the oven before the structure is installed 

Yes.. I believe your right... that is the wood box.. my bad

 

[moikel]

The inside of mine which looks rather rough & ready compared to your masterpiece.Food still tastes fine. Just to prove I can lay bricks,slowly & messy, a photo of last project

 

[scarbelly]

The inside of mine which looks rather rough & ready compared to your masterpiece.Food still tastes fine. Just to prove I can lay bricks,slowly & messy, a photo of last project

Man this is not in any way a competition or judgement on anyone 's oven. I just wanted to share my experience with the forum - I am humbled by folks like you that have an oven and what you have accoplished

 

[moikel]

Man this is not in any way a competition or judgement on anyone 's oven. I just wanted to share my experience with the forum - I am humbled by folks like you that have an oven and what you have accoplished

Never saw it as a competition,had a plenty of judgement from my contractor friends who tell me if thats how you work sober maybe you should try drinking while you work

. I had to call some of them in to dig me out of trouble at different stages. They shut up after I  feed them

 I just thought you might like to see the inside of mine. Realising theres a dip in the floor ,& a skew in the back arch I thought Id show you something I did recently thats a neater job,at least from that angle! I also figured Gene would see the oven floor & get a grasp of what I was talking about in my PM to him.

I quite sincerely see your oven as an example of what true masons build & how far the ovens have come in the last few years.I check this forum several times a day from my timezone just to see where your up to. I love what your doing.

 

[sound1]

  Finally a perfect "Black and Blue" steak.....
 

Oh Yea, a big X2 on that idea!!

 

[scarbelly]

Since Todd is coming from the East that would make it lop sided, we'll have to come from the west and even it out, ...two more won't make any difference since it sooo big, and for desert we can sample some of that Tahitian Vanilla ice cream you're gonna make.  

Fantastic!!!  I have a bad case of pizza oven envy.

Gene

You know you are always welcome 

 

[scarbelly]

We finally got some more done on the oven. We got hit with a rain delay

Here is the oven getting a coat of refractory cement on all the joints.

This is the start of a 3 week cure

This stuff is like a very thick glue and really sticky 

Installing the insulation blanket - 4 layers on the actual oven shell 

Chicken wire goes on next 

Next we build up the sides so we can pour the pearlite / concrete insulation mix

Here is a top view with the sides mostly done and ready to pour

 

[terry colwell]

Wow,, what a LOT of work for home made Pizzas, better go into business to recoup some money on this project....Lol

 

[roller]

Thats really nice Gary ! ! !

 

[SmokinAl]

It looks great Gary!

 

[graystratcat]

Looking better and better every time you post pix Gary!  I bet you're getting the itch real bad to fire that bad dog up....I know I would.  Man, this is one killer project!

-Salt

 

[solaryellow]

Looks great Gary! Will you have delivery service when it is done?

 

[DanMcG]

Cool Gary, Keep the pic's coming

 

[bmudd14474]

Great Job Gary

 

[bluebombersfan]

WOW!!

 

[alelover]

Awesome.

 

[moikel]

Very impressive.Insulation blanket very clever,lets hope the 3 weeks passes quickly for you.

 

[sprky]

Looking real good there. I'll bet ya can hardly wait till its all done and ya get to fire it up.

BTW are them OSHA approved flip flops........lol

 

[sound1]

Nice!!  Keep the pics coming!!