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Build Your Own Wood-Fired Pizza Oven

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Roger Doiron

Jul 20, 2011

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Tools and building projects

Blog type:

how-to

There are some people who dream about fame and fortune and others who dream about the perfect pizza. I tend to be part of the latter crowd and have often dreamed about having my own wood-fired pizza oven in the backyard. The problem is that you need a fortune (upwards of $2000) if you want to buy one pre-assembled.

The other option is to build your own as the flickr user above has so beautifully done and documented. Although I'm no handyman, I'm thinking that I could eventually pull something like this off with practice (i.e. 5 attempts or less).

For those of you ready to dive in already, you can find step-by-step instructions here as well as a tools and materials list.

Photo credits: Mwilkie

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR, Roger Doiron

Father, husband, son, brother and uncle. Garden activist, advocate, writer, speaker and photographer. Founder of KGI and certified garden geek. Growing lots of good stuff on the coast of Maine.

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Comments

Leni the cook

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 08:44

We are in the middle of the construction of a pizza/bread combo wood fired oven in our back yard. Hope to be finished this summer. Yum! I haven't written about it yet but will begin to follow our progress soon on my blog site www.indigohousehistory.com . I teach rural life skills at my house in the Virginia Piedmont; canning, bread baking, raising small livestock, butchering. I cook on a hundred+ year old Home Comfort wood burning cook stove and have experience with cooking on a hearth but the wood oven will be a really fun learning experience for me.