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Pizza anyone?

Post #1 made 13 years ago
by hashie
My wife asked for a pizza oven for her Christmas present, so I thought I should get onto it, to be sure it's ready to go.

So over the last week I have had a go and this is the result.
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It saw it's first small fire today and I will slowly burn it in over the next week.

So, any of you buggers interested in some home brew and wood fired pizza?
Last edited by hashie on 18 Aug 2012, 17:04, edited 2 times in total.
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Post #2 made 13 years ago
by PistolPatch
That is massive hashie :o. Nice job :thumbs:. Even looks big enough for when you have had too many home brews and are told to sleep outside :P. Where's the doorbell?

You going to make some sourdough pizza dough? :yum:.
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Post #3 made 13 years ago
by BobBrews
hashie,

Nice job! Who did it for you??? So you are going to light that thing up just to bake a pizza? "Methinks something's afoot?" I bet you are going to smoke some grain, Bake some bread. Bake dog biscuits from spent grain. I always wanted to build one, now I have you as a adviser and mentor. Good on you!
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Pizza anyone?

Post #4 made 13 years ago
by Lars
Damn good job Hashie, I'm shuttering the concrete base for mine at the moment but I started digging out in may:) what's the hearth made of, I'm looking at a concrete vermiculite slab with firebrick hearth sitting on it. Looks like a barrel vault build? Where u get the plans? I got that book 'the bread builders'
Looks excellent!

L

Post #5 made 13 years ago
by hashie
PP, not enough room for me to get in, but I'm sure I could fit a couple of kids in there. Hopefully we will be making sour doughs, breads, roasts and all sorts of other goodies in it very soon. although probably not dog biscuits, we don't have a dog, sorry Bob.

Bob, thanks :) If you want me to help you with advice and mentoring, be warned it's a very crooked path :)

Lars, thanks :) I used 180mm of concrete with 9 300mm x 300mm x 20mm sandstone tiles for the hearth laid into a 900mm x 900mm cooking surface. It is a barrel vault, for that I used the same red bricks as for the rest of the build. They are pressed bricks so no worries with cracking or exploding.

Plans, they came straight out of my head, or Bob may say arse :) I had the basics in my head and once I had all the materials to hand, based it out and said yep, that'll work and away I went.
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Post #7 made 13 years ago
by hashie
From bricks arriving to complete - 5 days. I put the slab down the week before to give it time to cure. I expect it will take another week, weather permitting, to burn it in and be ready to cook with.

Here is a pic before the cob went on to give you a better look at the vault, at least from the outside.
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Last edited by hashie on 20 Aug 2012, 05:55, edited 2 times in total.
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Post #10 made 13 years ago
by PistolPatch
hashie wrote:Hopefully we will be making sour doughs, breads, roasts and all sorts of other goodies in it very soon.
hashie, while you're waiting for the oven to set, see if you can source the following flours...

Organic Rye 1 kg
Unbleached Organic White Premium Bakers Flour 3 kg*
Unbleached Organic White Spelt 3 kg

These flours are all you need for excellent sourdough pizza bases and a great sourdough loaf.

:yum:
PP

P.S. You could substitute Wallaby Bakers Flour for this one as the quality is good enough.
Last edited by PistolPatch on 22 Aug 2012, 16:22, edited 2 times in total.
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Post #13 made 13 years ago
by hashie
WOW, What an epic build, 6 months it took that fella. Makes me feel inadequate doing mine in a week. Very different construction methods between his and mine.

So long as I can cook a pizza, make some bread and smoke some meat, it's all good.
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Post #14 made 13 years ago
by hashie
As promised, here are some photos of our first cooking attempt.

The first cooking fire glowing nicely.
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The first pizzas in. Sorry about the image, I obviously had the shakes :)
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One of the first results.
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And an internal view of the vault.
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Last edited by hashie on 03 Sep 2012, 06:28, edited 2 times in total.
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Post #15 made 13 years ago
by joshua
Hashie, Looks good!!! Enjoy those Hearth baked Pizza's!!!
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Post #17 made 13 years ago
by PistolPatch
Jeltz wrote:Nice work, but where does the brew kettle go :think:
Only a real brewer would think of that Jeltz :lol:. Looks like it's mini-BIABs in that oven. It would, seriously, be interesting to try a mini-BIAB smoked beer (rauchbier) and see what happens. Could be a comp winner!

Nice job hashie. You better start getting six monthly cholestrol checks :P. With an excellent oven like that, you can sell your indoor one and replace it with a fridge :drink:.

Btw, what sort of wood are you burning in it?
Last edited by PistolPatch on 03 Sep 2012, 17:31, edited 2 times in total.
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Post #22 made 12 years ago
by BabyfaceFinster
Thanks guys. Right now I'm looking at it sadly. It is currently covered with blue tarp and 1-2 feet of snow. Probably another 2 months before we are firing it up again. That's life here in Maine.

Bob, love the brew out on the ice video. Looks like a lot of fun.

Post #24 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
BabyfaceFinster,

The brew on the lake is 10 years old now. We haven't lost a brewer yet! My head was hurting last night trying to think of where I would build one if the boss would let me???
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Post #25 made 12 years ago
by BabyfaceFinster
I would have kept searching, looking, researching, etc. if my wife didn't pick up a shovel and start chopping divots in the sod. Once we had a big hole in the backyard, I had no choice but to forge on. Once I started, it became an obsession that lasted for months.

One of my favorite quotes that someone once said, "Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing." :smoke:
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