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DIY Backyard Pizza Oven

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I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like pizza, especially since you can customize it to suit any taste buds. I like my pizza with anchovies and a nice crisp bottom. I even love the slightly burnt smoky taste that only comes from a woodfired pizza oven. I have been trying to convince someone (actually anyone) I know to make one. I think making a Pizza oven or Tandoor oven are high on my Bucket list it’s just a pity I don’t like manual labor.

Of course Dave and Robin over at Thecobovenproject make it look easy enough (easy in design- not workload).

I would love to hear back from anyone who has made one and anyone who wants to make one. (comment below)

Maybe we should have a “Pizza Oven Party”. Everyone can come and do the labor and I will just order in pizza and keep the beer flowing until it is finished.

Comments

  1. My husband is in the process of making one now. He has wanted one for awhile and is excited about finishing it up so he can finally make pizza in it!!

  2. Having lived in Italy for 9 years, a pizza oven was at the top of our wish-list on our return to the UK. It’s nearly there!!!!

  3. Just harvested a free chimney for the labor of tearing it down. Gonna get to work on stripping the mortar from the old bricks and designing the new oven for the backyard!!
    More to follow as it grows!!
    Cheers!

  4. Foundation is 5’x5’x6″ thick reinforced with rebar. Found out you don’t want regular chimney brick for the oven so the chimney brick will become the patio area surrounding the oven base! Cinder block base coming soon, to be 4’x4’x 32″ high for the 4″ thick table that the oven sits on top.
    Cheers!

  5. You must line with fire brick. This is available at Lowe’s, home depot or a brick works in your area. They are made of refractory trilateral and are used to line wood fire ovens and furnaces, etc. Holds the heat and reflects it back and protects the other bricks. We built a beautiful barbecue in our house in Phoenix and used them.

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