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I've been wanting to build a wood fired pizza for years, heck probably closer to a decade. We've been baking bread for years and it seems lately have finally gotten pretty decent at baking pizzas in a conventional oven, but I know it doesn't compare to what a good wood fired oven can do.
Trouble is our current house has a very restrictive homeowners association and a small yard so I just couldn't see putting in the effort and expense when I figured we be moving out of the house some day. I know, I could just get a portable oven but I've been holding out for what I really want.
Well, some day hasn't quite arrived, but we have purchased a lot and are planning to build a house this summer. The good thing about the lot is no Homeowner's association and almost now covenants, yeah! That and it's a 1/2 acre lot which should be just enough room for the house, a small garden and greenhouse and of course most importantly a nice outdoor kitchen with a wood fired stove!
So since we're still in the planning stages I rekindled my wfo interest and came across this forum (just what I need, another forum to follow) Seeing what the members here have built has really inspired me!
At this point I'm trying to decide between an elevated deck coming off the dining room or a ground level patio. The upside of an elevated deck is it should be high enough where the neighbors roof lines in the photo would be about level with the water line and hence you'd have a panaramic view of the mountains in the distance.
The downside would be I'd need a large and expensive elevated deck to support the weight of the WFO and what I'd really like is a smaller deck with stairs leading down to something like this
with a fire pit and table for more intimate entertaining, but bordered by the lawn so we have room for entertaining larger groups.
My boys have been helping me clear the lot and we'll end up with about 2 cords of birch and 3 cords of alder when we're done. Should fire up a pizza or two!
As far as an oven, I'm leaning towards a 42" dome. I'd like something big enough to fire 3 pizzas at once when entertaining a big group (I know lots of planning involved in that with dough made in advance and them assembling the pizzas and me processing them through the oven) and being able to bake fairly large batches of bread on occasion. I'm not sure on if I'll build it out of bricks or go with a forno bravo cast kit. I'm thinking the time savings of the kit might offset that higher price especially if it's the difference between getting the oven finished in one summer or the project dragging on for two summers.
Hope I'm not to verbose
Trouble is our current house has a very restrictive homeowners association and a small yard so I just couldn't see putting in the effort and expense when I figured we be moving out of the house some day. I know, I could just get a portable oven but I've been holding out for what I really want.
Well, some day hasn't quite arrived, but we have purchased a lot and are planning to build a house this summer. The good thing about the lot is no Homeowner's association and almost now covenants, yeah! That and it's a 1/2 acre lot which should be just enough room for the house, a small garden and greenhouse and of course most importantly a nice outdoor kitchen with a wood fired stove!
So since we're still in the planning stages I rekindled my wfo interest and came across this forum (just what I need, another forum to follow) Seeing what the members here have built has really inspired me!
At this point I'm trying to decide between an elevated deck coming off the dining room or a ground level patio. The upside of an elevated deck is it should be high enough where the neighbors roof lines in the photo would be about level with the water line and hence you'd have a panaramic view of the mountains in the distance.
The downside would be I'd need a large and expensive elevated deck to support the weight of the WFO and what I'd really like is a smaller deck with stairs leading down to something like this
with a fire pit and table for more intimate entertaining, but bordered by the lawn so we have room for entertaining larger groups.My boys have been helping me clear the lot and we'll end up with about 2 cords of birch and 3 cords of alder when we're done. Should fire up a pizza or two!
As far as an oven, I'm leaning towards a 42" dome. I'd like something big enough to fire 3 pizzas at once when entertaining a big group (I know lots of planning involved in that with dough made in advance and them assembling the pizzas and me processing them through the oven) and being able to bake fairly large batches of bread on occasion. I'm not sure on if I'll build it out of bricks or go with a forno bravo cast kit. I'm thinking the time savings of the kit might offset that higher price especially if it's the difference between getting the oven finished in one summer or the project dragging on for two summers.
Hope I'm not to verbose
I tried to edit the post to get rid of them, but not only did the pictures scroll off the side of the tread, the button that allows you to edit the thread seems to have scrolled off into the ether as well.
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