In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Think you will find most of the details you require here.
[url=http://www.traditionaloven.com/]Wood pizza oven Building wood burning brick bread ovens[/url]
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Any ideas on cleaning a wood burning oven not used for 20 years!!!
We have to rebuild roof and fit door but then we can use it only trouble is meantime snakes,rats and scorpians have lived in it! I suppose lighting a big fire and blasting the whole thing fr a few hours might do it?
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
sounds like a challenge, but I have seen completed ones and they look truly beautiful in the correct surroundings. Good luck
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
I would suggest asking an italian for advice. They just LOVE (especially the older men) these ovens and are ALL experts on 'how to, what to' cook ! That has been our experience!
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
[quote=myabruzzohome;98340]Any ideas on cleaning a wood burning oven not used for 20 years!!!
We have to rebuild roof and fit door but then we can use it only trouble is meantime snakes,rats and scorpians have lived in it! I suppose lighting a big fire and blasting the whole thing fr a few hours might do it?[/quote]
We had a similar issue this spring. A local came to our rescue with some sound advice:
Empty it! Give it a general brush inside including the dome, then light increasingly large fires in there each day - starting off quite gentle and building up to the pizza-oven monster temperatures. It works fantastically well and cooks pizza these days in around 90 seconds!!
Sully
I know there is a UK website that shows detailed plans on how to build a pizza oven and also previous threads, neither of which I can remember at the moment but you certainly need to make sure that all the internal materials are fireproof and if it's a pizza oven it is best to make it dome shaped.