Oven floor, brick or soapstone?

[vertigopilot]

Re: Oven floor, brick or soapstone?

There is no debate about it all. Firebrick are vitrified, end of story. I bet she didn't immunize her kids either.

Poppycock! Fear of firebricks is a phobia sharing the same basic irrational belief in pseudo-science that compels otherwise reasonable people to inject themselves with poisons in the hope of obtaining "immunity" from one danger, while happily risking a host of new dangers.

My children aren't immunized, and eat pizza only from my firebrick oven. One needs to be sensible about what is truly worth worrying over.

[Tscarborough]

Re: Oven floor, brick or soapstone?

And a good one. Low duty make an excellent floor, and you can use the medium duty in the domes.

[NCMan]

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I also wanted to add that you may want to reconsider using medium duty firebrick for your floor and look into low duty instead. Just my opinion.

[Laurentius]

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I agree with Tscarborough! I don`t know about her immunization belief, but if she had said that too much water would kill you, I would had agreed.

[Tscarborough]

Re: Oven floor, brick or soapstone?

There is no debate about it all. Firebrick are vitrified, end of story. I bet she didn't immunize her kids either.

Soapstone is good if you plan on cooking at lower temps, but anything above 700 degrees and you will be scorching the bottoms of your pizzas before the cheese melts.

[1812]

Okay, here's where we are and we are hoping for some advice. Stand is complete with 4" of structural concrete. Today we bought enough Insblok 19 to build a 3" insulation area. The girl asked what we needed it for. When we said it was for a pizza oven she asked what we were using for the floor. We said medium duty firebrick and she was not too happy. She advised not to have food come in direct contact with the firebrick due to the health risks from the Alumina in the bricks ( Alzheimers and Cancer apparently)
A bit more research on the internet shows that there is some debate about this, some saying it is low risk, and some saying why take ANY risk. SO the question is, if we decided not to cook directly on the brick, what is the alternative, and does it go directly onto the insblock, or do we have to put down firebrick first, then soapstone or whatever on top? and finally, any ideas where to get soapstone in Central Florida and what would the cost be?

One step forward... one step back

Thanks for your help.