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Brick Oven Photos
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Pizza Oven Design and Installation
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Share your favorite tools, time saving tips, and what you learned while building your oven.
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Forno Bravo Oven Installation
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Pompeii Oven Construction
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Design Styles, Chimneys and Finish
Finish your oven against the weather, and to look good -- even though you are already using it.
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Ask questions and give your feedback on commercical pizza ovens for pizzerias and restaurants.
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Build an open grill that uses both wood coals from your brick oven or charcoal for traditional grilling.
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Pizza Stone Baking
Techniques for baking great pizza and bread using pizza stone(s) in your conventional oven.
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    Reply to 42” Corner Build in the Shadow of Mount Nittany
    by Giovanni Rossi
    Belated Happy New Year!

    Just continuing the annual posting of the holiday (2025) turkey as a little inspiration for new oven owners.

    You'll read a lot about practicing and learning how to use your oven. While I've made a lot of bread following a night of pizza making, this...
    Today, 01:16 PM
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    Reply to 2025 Pompeii Oven Build Log
    by david s
    Don’t omit the clay in the recipe entirely, it adds refractory quality to the mix as well as making it more workable. The very fine polypropylene fibres I use are 19 mm long and added at the rate of 1% by volume. Be careful to disperse them well in the mix, they tend to clump. Mix for double the...
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    Reply to 2025 Pompeii Oven Build Log
    by yoboseyo
    I will seal all the edges of the transition using rope


    would it be better to omit the fireclay entirely?


    I just looked up this stuff. It comes in different fibre lengths from 6mm to 18mm. which should I choose? how much of it do I need to add?

    Do...
    Yesterday, 01:56 AM

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