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Hi Everyone. I just started planning my WFO and the info on this site is top notch.
The oven I want to build is a 34? inside diameter igloo, however I want to build it so that I can move it into a bigger house in a few years. The big problem with designing a semi-portable pizza oven is trying to lighten it up without sacrificing the properties that make it a great oven in the first place.
I?m currently considering the following options to reduce weight:
1. Build the oven on 3/8? or ?? plate steel instead of a concrete hearth.
- I?m planning on welding on lifting eyes to help with the eventual move
- The steel plate would still rest on concrete block support
2.Use 3? thick firebrick for the dome instead of the 4.5? thickness proposed in the FB Pompeii design guide.
Anyone have any experience with this? I still want to use the oven for cooking things other than pizza (breads, roasts, etc) so I?m not particularly interested in building an oven any smaller. I?m a little concerned that the reduced thickness of firebrick be a problem.
Thanks.
C.
The oven I want to build is a 34? inside diameter igloo, however I want to build it so that I can move it into a bigger house in a few years. The big problem with designing a semi-portable pizza oven is trying to lighten it up without sacrificing the properties that make it a great oven in the first place.
I?m currently considering the following options to reduce weight:
1. Build the oven on 3/8? or ?? plate steel instead of a concrete hearth.
- I?m planning on welding on lifting eyes to help with the eventual move
- The steel plate would still rest on concrete block support
2.Use 3? thick firebrick for the dome instead of the 4.5? thickness proposed in the FB Pompeii design guide.
Anyone have any experience with this? I still want to use the oven for cooking things other than pizza (breads, roasts, etc) so I?m not particularly interested in building an oven any smaller. I?m a little concerned that the reduced thickness of firebrick be a problem.
Thanks.
C.
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