My Old Kentucky Dome

[asudavew]

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To date, the fanciest pizza I've ever made uses Ragu Pizza Quick for the sauce. I thought it tasted pretty good.
Ken

I used the Ragu Pizza Quick sauce quite a bit... I've tried many others... canned... cold... bags... jars...etc.

It actually is one of the better one's I have used.

I feel a flaming coming for admitting that....

Let it begin.

You can't beat the San Marzano canned tomatoes though. Give em a try!

[christo]

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Have never tried a canned premade sauce.

Looks like I should keep a jar or two on hand for that quick spur of the moment pizza with frozen/refrigerated dough.....

Christo

[Ken524]

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Have never tried a canned premade sauce.

Ummm... What other kind of sauce is there?

[Ken524]

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Instead of just a plain old rectangular slot for my vent, I decided to make it more complicated, thus requiring more cuts, time and aggravation.

The idea (borrowed from others, of course) is to try to grab as much smoke leaving the oven and give it an easy way to flow up to the chimney. I made some 45deg cuts on the outer vent arch bricks. The next set of arch bricks will have similar cuts continuing the 45deg angle up to the top of the vent.

If I'm not describing this well, I'll have more pics tomorrow after the next set of bricks are set.

[Ken524]

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Here are the last two special cut bricks for the vent.


Here they are installed.


I should have the arch finished later today.

[Frances]

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Ken, with an oven like yours you will just HAVE to make your own dough, sauce, and maybe even press the olives for homemade oil...

I really like the vent. It looks so simple and fits so well, matches the rest of the dome in fact.

[Ken524]

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Ken, with an oven like yours you will just HAVE to make your own dough, sauce, and maybe even press the olives for homemade oil...

I enjoy making dough, that's no problem. I'll take a crack at homemade sauce; but I'll probably pass on the home-squeezed olive juice. Our grocery store has several varieties

I really like the vent. It looks so simple and fits so well, matches the rest of the dome in fact.

Thanks! I'm pretty pleased with how it's turning out. More pics in the next post.

[asudavew]

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Congrats bro!


Very Impressive.

[Ken524]

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Completed vent! Next step is to build a transition for the anchor plate.

[Acoma]

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Ken, what great work to finish to vent area. Excellent.

[Dannyboyblue]

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It's gonna be a shame to cover the whole thing up.

[RTflorida]

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Nice work Ken, VERY nice. Next we are going to have to take you to school on pizza making......no more talk of canned or jar sauce or grocery store dough. We'll getcha learned on the finer points of americanized WFO pizza making. You've got a fantastic oven, lets have it produce some fantastic pizza.
Thanks for all of the play by play, nice to see regular updates like you and Dave have provided.

[rlf5]

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Very cool.

[Ken524]

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Next we are going to have to take you to school on pizza making......no more talk of canned or jar sauce or grocery store dough. We'll getcha learned on the finer points of americanized WFO pizza making.

Thanks RT. I am really looking forward to becoming a sophisticated pizza chef . I guess I'll have to start reading the threads on dough mixers!

Ken

[dusty]

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That looks perfect. I especially like the tapered entry to the chimney. Question... I seem to remember you leaving a gap between the floor and the soldiers. I am there now. What was that all about?

dusty