Starting 42" NW Pensylvania

[hodgey1]

It's been a while since I've posted. In hopes of letting the members here have a look at what is next after completing their WFO, here is a link to some of my pizzas

[hodgey1]

hi, Im from south of Brazil, I'm looking the forum and getting the tips to build my Brick oven! but your's is the best I've looked... congratulations for the oven

Mattiello,

That is about as nice a comment a person could receive about their build! Thanks you.

Chris

[hodgey1]

Hi Hodgey great job on your build, I used your build as inspiration and reference when ever I got stuck or brain-dead. Question for yah, did you have to add another pipe section to your chimney to get above the roof line, looks like you started with a 3 footer but seems longer now.
thanks
Ivan

Hello Ivan,

I built part of my chimney out of brick, if you look close at the pictures. Once I had it high enough to get above my roof pitch I stopped using brick and attached the Stainless adapter.

Chris

[Mattiello]

hi, Im from south of Brazil, I'm looking the forum and getting the tips to build my Brick oven! but your's is the best I've looked... congratulations for the oven

[ivancito]

Re: Starting 42" NW Pensylvania

Worked all weekend and made some real good progress and have finally gotten my oven weathered in for the most part which really gets a monkey off my back.

It has taken a very long time to get here, but we cooked in our brick oven for the first time this weekend. Very satisfying and frustrating all at the same time. I've been making homemade dough, thin crust pizza with a brick oven insert in my home oven for years with very good success at 550*.

Cooking in the WFO at 750+* is going to take some getting used to, to say the least. My first cooking experience went really well and turned out three very tasty pies. The very next day, I cooked six pizzas and only 3 or 4 turned out good. One I flat out ruined and two or so the bottoms were a bit over charred. I guess I've got a new process to learn, go figure....

Is there a good method of cooling down the cooking floor? I'm sure the answer is just hold my pants on and wait till it is a bit cooler and drink a beer?

Hi Hodgey great job on your build, I used your build as inspiration and reference when ever I got stuck or brain-dead. Question for yah, did you have to add another pipe section to your chimney to get above the roof line, looks like you started with a 3 footer but seems longer now.
thanks
Ivan

[hodgey1]

Thanks Utah! The slates were reclaimed from a nearby barn being torn down. I had on $200 ish into enough to do the roof. It is my favorite finish item by far. When we got one side finished, we stepped way back and looked at it and were stunned at the beauty.

[UtahBeehiver]

Nicely done, sure do like the slate roof.

[hodgey1]

After

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Before

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After

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Before photo

[hodgey1]

This post is way over due since finishing my project in June of this year. Please see attached the finished product of 2 1/2 summers of effort by my wife and I. For anyone just starting a build or on the fence thinking about building your own WFO, my advice is just do it! Although I have always been handy and considered a "fix-it" guy, as I've stated multiple times threw my posts here, this was the first time i've picked up a trowel. Forno Bravo, the FB forum and its members are solely responsible for my build getting off the ground and ending up so perfectly functional! So thank you, to all here, past and current members and most of all to the FB plans that made it possible for me to wrap my mind around making a round dome out of square bricks!

[hodgey1]

Thanks Gulf for the info. I appreciate all your input during my build and others builds. I will try to learn the nuances and except that all thing must change.

[Gulf]

Welcome back Chris,

Forno Bravo has came on board in the last few days and are very active on the forum and seem determined to correct all of the issues.

They have a sticky topic for anyone to voice the issues that they are experiencing. It can be linked at the top of the page or here.

If you haven't seen them, we have a few workarounds to use until they get the forum fixed.

Here is how to make the forum skin a little easier to view.

Finding the most recent posts.

A temporary Search Engine for the site.

[hodgey1]

I feel like a stranger here😞. This new forum is a mess.😔