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So a proper good morning to all! I've been lurking and endlessly reading your forum and the Pompeii building plans for a while now and would like to join you with my first questions.
I've wanted a wfo for a while now and last year my parents bought me a tiny terracotta oven thingy which actually did a decent job at firing small pizza's. Nothing else, but real decent pizza's next to the hot coals, done before I could blink my eyes, but it needed rest between the pizza's to get hot again. It did heat up from zero to inferno in under 15 minutes.
my eldest son (5 years old) sadly broke it so no outdoor cooked pizza's for me this year.
We where and are planning to build a real WFO, in our yet to build outdoor kitchen on our yet to build covered patio. We'll be doing everything ourselves, from scratch, for as cheap as possible, with stuff from the Dutch Craigslist, Marktplaats. Our plans are adaptable to building materials we can source but right now we're planning on an concrete patio which can serve as oven and outdoor kitchen foundation. I'm thinking of letting a company deliver second hand reinforced concrete slabs as patio, two slabs sized 200x200 and one 100x200. Patio will measure 200x500cm.
first question would be the maximum axel load the plates should be able to withstand.
the oven will either be a corner build 36 inch with shelves build in next to it since the oven space is 200x140 or an slight oval with some extra insulation. The corner build would have the entry arch angeled away from the seating area, with an oval build the entry would point straight to the seating, and use up all the space possible, my preference.
we'll probably br using red clay fired bricks for the oven dome, either firebrick or terra cotta tiles for the hearth floor, home brew mortars, perlite isolation, etc. We've bought a fixer upper house which steel needs a redo of the kitchen and bathroom, funds are directed that way for the next five years. I'm not going to wait that long before building my oven so I'm scavenging everything from everywhere. Firebrick is expensive, red fired clay bricks are often free in our neighborhood.
I do want a proper oven foundation and stand so that when we can redo the oven properly in a couple of years, we only have to redo the oven dome and encasing materials. I'm thinking of building the dome freestanding from the hearth floor and insulating it with loose perlite. Maybe even building an air heath break between the dome and the vent area and only use perlcrete isolation here to keep the loose stuff out of the dome but still make it relatively easy to redo the dome without wrecking the vent in the process.
for the rest, we are a very average family, two kids and a dog. I love to bake and cook, it's my main hobby, next to reading, knitting, sewing and my vegetable patch in the garden. My husband is a tinkerer who builds me my idea's with a little help from me (I do the modernization and electricity stuff, he does de main building stuff) and a lot of help from the tools we inherited from my grandfather the master carpenter and his father the plumber.
my favorites to cook are slow-cooked meals, breads, beautifully decorated cakes and gellato.
I've wanted a wfo for a while now and last year my parents bought me a tiny terracotta oven thingy which actually did a decent job at firing small pizza's. Nothing else, but real decent pizza's next to the hot coals, done before I could blink my eyes, but it needed rest between the pizza's to get hot again. It did heat up from zero to inferno in under 15 minutes.
my eldest son (5 years old) sadly broke it so no outdoor cooked pizza's for me this year.
We where and are planning to build a real WFO, in our yet to build outdoor kitchen on our yet to build covered patio. We'll be doing everything ourselves, from scratch, for as cheap as possible, with stuff from the Dutch Craigslist, Marktplaats. Our plans are adaptable to building materials we can source but right now we're planning on an concrete patio which can serve as oven and outdoor kitchen foundation. I'm thinking of letting a company deliver second hand reinforced concrete slabs as patio, two slabs sized 200x200 and one 100x200. Patio will measure 200x500cm.
first question would be the maximum axel load the plates should be able to withstand.
the oven will either be a corner build 36 inch with shelves build in next to it since the oven space is 200x140 or an slight oval with some extra insulation. The corner build would have the entry arch angeled away from the seating area, with an oval build the entry would point straight to the seating, and use up all the space possible, my preference.
we'll probably br using red clay fired bricks for the oven dome, either firebrick or terra cotta tiles for the hearth floor, home brew mortars, perlite isolation, etc. We've bought a fixer upper house which steel needs a redo of the kitchen and bathroom, funds are directed that way for the next five years. I'm not going to wait that long before building my oven so I'm scavenging everything from everywhere. Firebrick is expensive, red fired clay bricks are often free in our neighborhood.
I do want a proper oven foundation and stand so that when we can redo the oven properly in a couple of years, we only have to redo the oven dome and encasing materials. I'm thinking of building the dome freestanding from the hearth floor and insulating it with loose perlite. Maybe even building an air heath break between the dome and the vent area and only use perlcrete isolation here to keep the loose stuff out of the dome but still make it relatively easy to redo the dome without wrecking the vent in the process.
for the rest, we are a very average family, two kids and a dog. I love to bake and cook, it's my main hobby, next to reading, knitting, sewing and my vegetable patch in the garden. My husband is a tinkerer who builds me my idea's with a little help from me (I do the modernization and electricity stuff, he does de main building stuff) and a lot of help from the tools we inherited from my grandfather the master carpenter and his father the plumber.
my favorites to cook are slow-cooked meals, breads, beautifully decorated cakes and gellato.
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