Re: My Pompeii Design
It's all good mate, I took it in the spirit intended.
It gave me a bit of a grin, but surely I'm not the first? Most people I meet who have never had wood oven pizza expect it to be smoky, and are surprised when it isn't really. After all this time, it still blows me away how efficient these things are.
Adam, in a standard Pompeii, you can move the fire around to influence where the heat ends up, in addition to how much fire you build. The firebox thing would result in lower max temps, too.
However, I can see a couple of advantages with your oven design.
For example you could raise the temp in your oven while the bread is still in there. If I find the temperature of my oven has dropped further than I would like when I'm baking bread, I can't do much about it.
And smoking would be a little easier, I think. Might even be able to do cold smoking.
I suggest that if you make the flue of such a size that you can match it to some sort of drop in firebrick plug, you could make this quite versatile - use the remote firebox for the slower cooking tasks, or plug the flue with a drop in brick and light the fire inside the dome for the times you want 90 second pizzas.
Originally posted by stonecutter
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It gave me a bit of a grin, but surely I'm not the first? Most people I meet who have never had wood oven pizza expect it to be smoky, and are surprised when it isn't really. After all this time, it still blows me away how efficient these things are.
Adam, in a standard Pompeii, you can move the fire around to influence where the heat ends up, in addition to how much fire you build. The firebox thing would result in lower max temps, too.
However, I can see a couple of advantages with your oven design.
For example you could raise the temp in your oven while the bread is still in there. If I find the temperature of my oven has dropped further than I would like when I'm baking bread, I can't do much about it.
And smoking would be a little easier, I think. Might even be able to do cold smoking.
I suggest that if you make the flue of such a size that you can match it to some sort of drop in firebrick plug, you could make this quite versatile - use the remote firebox for the slower cooking tasks, or plug the flue with a drop in brick and light the fire inside the dome for the times you want 90 second pizzas.
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