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Build your own Clay oven

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  • #2
    wayoutwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭wayoutwest


    Terry - Great step by step pictures of pompeii oven construction.....how many bags of logs would it consume in order to cook, say,one large pizza. Also...how long does it take [from cold] to get to baking temperature?


  • #3
    cannyfradock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭cannyfradock


    wayoutwest

    Thank-you for your kind comments.

    It would be false economy to fire up a wood fired oven for just 1 pizza. A well insulated Pompeii or Clay.....or even a Modular (kit form) oven will take about 40 minutes to heat the oven. Once you have "massed heat" then it only takes a few small or split logs thrown on a small flickering fire at the rear or side of the oven every 30 minutes or so to maintain a constant temperature for a session of 4 hours or more.

    If we take a bag of wood as an example which can be bought from many outlets in a plastic woven bag costing around 6 Euro's.........It will take 1 and a half bags (rough estimate) to bring the oven up to temp. Another bag and a half will last perhaps 4 hours. After the pizza party the embers can then be raked over the surface of the hearth for 15 minutes or so, then raked out of the oven and a batch of bread can be baked. There will still be enough residual heat left in the oven (as long as it's insulated) to do a slow roast.

    Every Wood-fired oven is individual in it's performance, and are not so difficult to build for a D.I.Y.er......

    There are quite a few threads on Boards IE which have info on fire-brick sourcing in Ireland........and there's always lots of help available on our interactive forum.

    Terry


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