Looking for lighting suggestions

[Dave T]

I'm looking for suggestions as to how to light the inside of my oven, and the surrounding area. I have a FB oven installed above a fireplace. The entire area is granite blocks, and there is a granite mantel in front of the oven. It's completely dark this time of year during pizza making time, and I'm finding that I'd like a lot more light. It would also be nice to light the inside of the oven. Does anyone have any suggestions? Or pictures?

[david s]

The high temperatures involved make interior electrics problematic. For pizza cooking you should maintain a fire on the side anyway and this also provides an oven light. I also use a powerful led mounted onto a portable stand running on a 10 a/h 12 v battery that I use to illuminate the entrance.

[Dave T]

That's a thought - a portable light. But is it weatherproof - can you leave it there all the time? It would be nice to minimize things I need to transport to the oven to get set up.

[RandyJ]

Hi Dave. What I did was take some 3"can lights and swap the guts out with some landscape flood lights. It was a easy job once I found the right ones. I got them from Lowe's. So now they just come on with all the other lights . And so far I would say it provides plenty of light to see what you are doing. And if you keep a fire going in the oven you can see just fine. I don't have a pic with everything done but here was a test picture.

Randy

[Dave T]

That looks nice, Randy, but unfortunately I don't have a roof over my oven to mount them to the underside of. Nice looking setup, by the way!

[RandyJ]

Thanks. Do you have a picture of the area so we might be able to help come up with some other ideas? There might be some other options.

Randy