Eric's WFO build

[geisen]

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Eric
WFO looks great. See, it wasn't that bad. just one cut at a time. ;-)
greg

[kebwi]

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How the heck did you eat eight pizzas? I've never made more than two at a time for me and my wife except for a party of six people for which four pizzas was sufficient.

I would love to throw a big party, but I imagine such will be a rare and special event.

[eprante]

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Hi everyone,
I just have to say that I have been ruined. I don't think I will ever buy pizza out again. 2 weekends in a row making pizza at home in my oven. It is like the difference between instant coffee and fresh ground brewed coffee.
Made 8 pizzas last night, making a tri tip stew tonight with the retained heat. One of my wine geek friends is in town so there will be some good wine consumed tonight.

Eric

[Allo Pizza?]

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Nice work Eric! I also like the color and the chimney.
And that bread looks great! That should motivate me to try and finish the curing on my oven tonight...

Here is a picture with better light. FB thermometer mounted. Cooking pizza tonight, bread tomorrow. Made a Tscarborough door, stack some bricks cut to block the opening.
Passed on the Indispensible tool yesterday, Thanks to Greg Geisen for giving it to me, and to Jim Gleim for making it.
Eric

[eprante]

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Thanks for the compliments John and Raffy. I was going to put a sealer on the stucco, but thought better of it since we will be tiling the dome and landing area(hopefully soon). Raffy the color is called Paper bag. It is a powder you add to the water before you mix the stucco. 1 bag of color to 1 bag of stucco, easy breezy.

I will cover the oven during the infrequent rainy periods here in San Diego county, until I get the dome tiled, then seal the tile and grout.
Eric

[eprante]

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Thanks Dino,
The stucco is going to be tiled with a mosaic on the dome eventually, but Cathy is taking that part of the project on. So I decided to color the stucco so it would be more aesthetic until the tiling gets done. Thus far I am using firebricks cut to the size of the inner arch for my door. I baked some bread Monday morning after pizza Sunday night. The bread was from unused pizza dough, though the rising schedule was way different than what I normally do it ended up delicious. With the bricks blocking the oven entrance I had 550 degrees the following morning and 350 the next night. I did a pork shoulder the next day but started it too early and had dehydrated pork. Oh well I will figure out the timing of these things.

Now to finish the adobe veneer and lower arch.

Eric

[Dino_Pizza]

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Eric, the color looks really nice against the greens of the avocado and palm trees. Beautiful setting.
You made a door already? Is there a pic of it? I need to copy somebody .
-Dino

[John K]

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Hi Eric

The oven looks great with the stucco all done and nice selection of colour!

Once you have finnished with the adobe veneer it is going to look fantastic.

Are you planning to use any typ of sealer on the stucco?

[Raffy]

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Oh wow.... That is a beautiful oven. What did you use to color the stucco?

[eprante]

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Here is a picture with better light. FB thermometer mounted. Cooking pizza tonight, bread tomorrow. Made a Tscarborough door, stack some bricks cut to block the opening.
Passed on the Indispensible tool yesterday, Thanks to Greg Geisen for giving it to me, and to Jim Gleim for making it.
Eric

[kebwi]

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Beautiful. I hope to start stuccoing this weekend too, weather permitting.

Nicely done.

[eprante]

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We applied the stucco with color to the dome today.We also did the decorative arch. After the dome was done I had a ton of colored stucco left so I decided to float it over the perlcrete that was on top of the stand. I am not sure if it will stick. My end plan is to tile the top of the stand and the work area to the left( not yet built). I was tired of looking at the perlcrete so this gives me an interim surface- unless it flakes off tomorrow.

I still need to drill holes to mount the FB thermometer, but I think I will let the mortar on the arch set up really well before taking the drill to it.

We are having a few people over tomorrow for dinner. Everybody I know wants to have pizza so I don't think I will be able to cook anything else for at least a year.

Eric

[Raffy]

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Awesome work, Eric! Did you have your party yet? I envy your chimney. Very beautiful. Now I'm thinking of adding some girth to my chimney hehehe. I'm sure there is a joke there somewhere or at least a double meaning.... Hahaha

Now that the veneer and stucco is being applied, it's like a supermodel all dolled up. Beautiful already to begin with, stunningly gorgeous now that all the "bells and whistles" are going on.

[eprante]

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I am getting there, it is slow. Worked on putting the rest of the insulation, chicken wire and most of the scratch coat (ran out of stucco at the end). I put a couple of rows of the adobe veneer, I am pleased with how it is adhering and how it looks- thanks to Neil and Tscar for the tips.
Thanks to my father in law, Dick, the son of a plasterer. He said it had been 60+years since he had done it but he was a champ.
Eric

[Raffy]

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Oh, wow! I missed a lot! Glad to hear you are already cooking in the oven. Please post the pics of the pizza. That is gorgeous bread and I got to get me one of those pans for roasting.

I couldn't cook any pizza yet because I was still waiting for the peel to be fabricated. I will cook some this Saturday for my folks and some friends.

Your brithday will be a blast with the oven up and running now. Advanced birthday greetings to you, Eric! Have a good one!

Raffy