Uk custom cast oven build - Tractors oven will this work?????

[SableSprings]

Welcome back Trac!

At your first post you mentioned in addition to pizza that there would possibly be some bread involved. I suspect that Focaccia and then roasts (& turkey) will follow. My suggestion is that you take your current sheet pans and roasters into account when thinking about the width & height of the oven access. I do full sheet pans occasionally and it's really nice to have them fit through my oven opening. In addition, the low profile is great for pizza but may be a problem when doing something like a turkey. Just some things you might want to consider...

I also wondered if you are going to put in a reveal so you can use a fire door to seal up the oven when baking with just stored heat. Looking like it will be a fun & functional pizza oven for sure! I'll certainly be watching your project with interest.

p.s. In posts #4 & #5 above, the top sets of photos are show on my screen only as broken picture/file icons. The lower 3 in post 4 show OK as do the lower 2 in post 5...but no others.

[Tractor]

stay tuned JD



trac

[Johnnyd943]

Love the CNC Idea.. been tossing it around myself. Can't wait to see where this is going !

JD

[Tractor]

Access should be a lot better, would you agree??

I do feel like I'm reinventing the wheel here a little bit however I do want to make it as custom as possible so its important to get the basic oven right first I guess

I should add I now propose the dome height to be 250mm from the floor to the apex and I've made the opening 400mm wide and 157.5mm high,





Q - is 250mm too low for a 1000mm diameter floor? what do you guys recon?





trac

[Tractor]

hi guys apologies for the radio silence, its been a very long time but I had good reason and I'm back now.......

I appreciate your replies and your absolutely correct so ive gone back to the drawing board and come up with this this morning.




100cm floor



insulated slab
dome


insulated concrete poured over dome



chimney


alltogether

[david s]

Re: Uk custom cast oven build - Tractors oven will this work?????

I agree about the excessive depth of the entry. Provided you have an adequate flue size you can make the entry really shallow, making it easier to work and no smoke out the front.

[shuboyje]

Re: Uk custom cast oven build - Tractors oven will this work?????

The oven itself looks ok, but the opening and entry look like they could use some changing to me. In the renderings the outermost arch looks really low, and the entry looks really deep. All these things add up to make an oven that will be hard to build a fire in and hard to work.

At 57% of the oven width I also think the door is too wide. Make it just wide enough of the biggest pizza you plan to bake. If you want to do an 18" new york style pizza make a 19" opening.

At very least I would raise the outermost arch a bit, but my personal preference is to eliminate it all together and use a Neapolitan style with no entry and a cantilevered vent. For pizza this leads to a MUCH more accessible oven.

[Tractor]

Hi all

welcome to my build..!!!

I've been researching ovens for a while and I've come up with what I think might work best for me.

I plan on mostly using the oven for pizzas with some fresh bread as well

here's what I'm hoping to end up with.




I'd like to cast my oven in place over some foam formers but before I spend the time CNC ing the forms I wanted to discuss with you guys
weather or not you think it'll work.

heres the oven on its own



and a cross section to show the dimensions




Ive tried to stick to the 63% rule here 189mm being 63% of 300mm but have I understood it and got it right?

I've created a very low dome here but is it too low??? my logic is that the top of pizzas will cook better the closer
they are to the heat source.

one other thing I've done is to create a scoop that leads into the chimney flue, im hoping this will prevent smoke from coming out the
front of the oven and making a mess of the front face. you can see this better here along with the above cross section



there's a great deal of other things to discuss here as well I'm sure but I think thats enough for the moment.


I'd be interested in your thoughts guys??? do you think this will work?

I know the pizza oven and in particular the Pompeii oven has been around for 100's of years and there's and argument for if it
isn't broke don't fix it but I'm a big believer in developing and improving


thanks guys
trac