About a year ago I built this oven while I was in Tallahassee, FL. The interior space is 28 inches wide by about 40 inches long. It easily accomodates 2 pizzas at a time, or several loaves of bread. Precooking firing time is about 2.5 hours to get the walls saturated enough to hold a steady 500 degrees. Pizza is done in about 15 minutes. The first time I fired it up we made 4 or 5 pizzas and a calzone! Mmmm mmmm good.
I took the pleasure of whipping this little video together so you can see how it was made:
Clearly not a tutorial, but you get the whole oven in less than 4 minutes! What more could you ask for?
I’ll be adding more oven info and a couple more videos as I get them strung together. Thanks for checking it out!
A multi-talented dude from the swampy woods of North Florida, Lyman has a couple blogs chronicling his adventures and art endeavors. Lyman's art is about community and social action, and is centered around wood fired pizza ovens that he builds, currently in Asheville, NC. These adventures can be followed at www.lymanedwardsceramics.wordpress.com. His other blog, www.restorevival.wordpress.com, follows his encounters with vintage machines of transportation. Twenty plus years of maintenance and restoration and his propensity for fine art and craftsmanship give him a keen eye and steady hand when breathing new life into these old motorcycles, cars, and boats.