Kemo's South Austin Pizza Oven

[Chris]

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Looking good on that concrete and refreshment, Kemo.

I thought I had a good idea when I bought a combination corkscrew/bottle opener to mount on the finished oven. Now I see I need a kegerator to keep up with the guy down the street!
:-)

*I worked several years at the College Station Domino's. I've been known to roast a few heads of garlic through the conveyor oven to put on my pizza.

[Kemo]

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Chris,

thanks for the garlic tip... I bet it would be super easy to wrap up a whole head of garlic in aluminum foil loaded with EVOO and toss it in the pizza oven.

Thanks for passing along the extra Heatstop and pearlite. I put the pearlite to good use yesterday. If I have anything left over, Ill do the same and pass along any leftovers to a new oven.

[Kemo]

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Here is day 10:

Chris was kind enough to set me up with a 2.8 cubic ft bag of Pearlite and I recieved about 2 cubic ft of vermiculite from another Austinite. I ended up buying about another 2.5 cubic ft of vermiculite from Lowes and 2 bags of 90 lb Portland Cement bags. I mixed the vermiculite first for no particular reason and then the pearlite. Looking back, I should have made a homogenous mixture of the two before hand. I could have easily done this in a couple of large trash bags. As they say, Hindsite is 20/20. In any event, I ended up with a Yin-Yang kinda design in there which was completely random.

I started at the front with vermiculite and finished with pearlite. I wonder if this will cause a temperature difference? somehow I think any temp differences will be insignificant.

[Ken524]

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Looks great! I love the Ying-Yang. Your oven will be in perfect balance
You will be laying firebrick in no time!

[Kemo]

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made a trip out to Elgin about 30 miles from Austin. I bought 200 firebricks for 95 dollars. I had just enough in my wallet to cover the "2 Meat Plate" at Myers BBQ.

[asudavew]

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made a trip out to Elgin about 30 miles from Austin. I bought 200 firebricks for 95 dollars. I had just enough in my wallet to cover the "2 Meat Plate" at Myers BBQ.

Are you serious?

It cost me $222.00 + tax for mine!


Damn small towns........

Did you pick up the HF saw for cutting?

And BTW the ying yang thing is cool!

Let the fun begin Steve!!!!!

[Kemo]

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not much work for a Tuesday evening, but I did remove the outter forms to reveal a nice place to start laying brick!

[Kemo]

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Are you serious?

It cost me $222.00 + tax for mine!


Damn small towns........

Did you pick up the HF saw for cutting?

And BTW the ying yang thing is cool!

Let the fun begin Steve!!!!!

Dave,

Elgin-Butler Brick offers "b-grade" firebrick at a super slim price of 44 cents per brick! For me, it was worth the 30 mile trip. My truck was loaded! at 8 lbs a brick, that works out to 1600 lbs which is 30lbs under the payload max.

I havent bought the saw yet. My brother in law has a saw that I can use but im not sure if it will cut all the way thru a brick. Im trying to avoid having to flip the brick everytime. HF has a 14" saw for 60 bucks...not a bad deal if his is not big enough. Here is the LINK

so maybe this weekend I can start cutting half bricks and get the floor in place.

[asudavew]

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It would of cost me more in gas than I would of saved I'm afraid to drive that far.

But that's awesome for you, always good to save some cash when you can.

Remember, that saw will kick up some serious dust. I used a blade like that on my compound miter saw, so I have first-hand experience. I did wet some of the bricks to keep dust levels low, but the saw cut poorly. But I made it all work out and you can too with that saw. Just be sure to get eye protection and a mask for the dust.

[Kemo]

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I just got off the phone with my Bro-in-law, and his saw is a 14" saw that can be wet or dry. From what he says, it has its own stand and is a real b!%h to move around. That sounds like the saw I need! Im trying to work out moving the thing. He lives north of Houston. Maybe I could meet him halfway...would be well worth the trip.

I plan on soaking bricks and using water on the blade to keep the dust down. Goggles and chemical gloves - safety first

[asudavew]

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Welcome to the board...im about to be laying the first brick here in less than a week!

Don't you mean this weekend?

[Kemo]

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I hope to have the hearth in place by close of bidness on sunday )

[Kemo]

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Day 12 - knocking out structural support beams and laying herringbone bricks in vermiculite...

I just laid the bricks that did not need to be cut. Tonight I'll fire up the blade.

[Acoma]

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Kemo, how come you have a smaller foundation then the structural concrete block? Wouldn't you want a minimum of 2"? Your picture shows the blocks hanging over the foundation.

[Ken524]

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Looks great Kemo. Your stand and vermiculite base look really nice.