Low Cost pizza oven

If you are ever thinking of pizzas home, you should know that true Italian dish you are served in a pizzeria with a sign «forno a legna». This means that the pizza is cooked in a wood stove, on the glowing billets, at a temperature of not less than 400 degrees. Surely, not many have tried this dish, baked in accordance with the long tradition of the Italians. And yet, you can do it even at his dacha! Andrew Pavlovets tells how to build a wood-burning low-budget pizza oven.

Forumchanin began with the construction of the foundation and a base plate beneath, which was standing stove.

Then he knocked formwork from scraps fiberboard, welded fittings and cast slab itself. I wait until the concrete hardens, and moved it to a permanent place.

Unnecessary have eyebolts for carrying cut a grinder and began to pave a fireclay brick oven.

Options for the construction of the furnace itself, there were two: from a fireclay brick and adobe. The first seemed more expensive and time consuming, but the construction would be dried faster. Accordingly, and to use it could be sooner. On the other hand, three 50-kilogram bag of Cambrian clay are 360 ​​rubles, for an amount that could buy nine fireclay bricks. Dilemma solved cases: brick hearth fit for broke "Bulgarian". This determined the method of construction.

That pizza is not clinging to the roughness of the hearth, members of the forum to polish it, and then began to sculpt hemisphere of wet sand. For accuracy use a rotating mold, made from scraps of plywood and window hinges with a pin. This device Andrei shot too much.

When the "cake" was ready, I began to forumchanin pasting newspapers sand. On top of the "papier-mache" lay clay, pre-soaked and blended with a mixer. Andrew replaced the straw dried lawn grass. Thus was born the "behemoth" as lovingly dubbed the construction home. That I'm just going to dry it for a long time. The owner has decided to accelerate the process, starting out from under the clay sand. This was his fault: neprosohshy "hippopotamus" was to go down without a sand support. But the dry matter more quickly. To further accelerate the process of the blower motor, placed in the "belly" for a few days.

Andrew a couple of times to heat the stove with newspapers, then ran to the modal protopku. Soon, three ruddy samosas with lamb mince published an unprecedented flavor. The next day came the pizza place. She was preparing for about five minutes!

After successful testing forumchanin wrapped structure remaining from the cassette home furnace insulation. A little later, Andrew completed the stove: welded frame made of wire rod, the side - piece of pipe 25h60 mm (subsequently removable table can be mounted on it). Then fixed grid and sketched solution. After drying the first layer to work with the solution easier.

When needed a table near the stove, Andrew has made it the Gulf of concrete slab:

The cost of the furnace: only two bags of 120 rubles clay and two bags of cement to the plate and the foundation. Residues cement Andrew planned use for external cladding of the furnace. All other materials - b / y, in particular, the "table" under the stove put forumchanin of old bricks left over from alterations stoves in the home and bath.

The base under the stove can be made from almost anything. Andrew offers the "free" versions: wooden stumps dug in old barrels cement debris, in general, to use something unnecessary that you have lying around in the area.

In winter, the furnace was heated a little longer and faster cool down. Andrew came to the conclusion that the design needs to be some changes:

• vault, which sank during drying, it is necessary to do the above;
• tube well would not make stainless steel, and clay with insulation and the casing and the hole to close the foil and mineral wool in the rain cover something like a bowl;
• plate had to be cast in situ;
• plate under the stove needed to insulate or pour concrete with expanded clay;
• stove damper should be done with warming.

oven pizza opportunities were much wider than baking alone "stuffed pancakes." To see this, just look "tasty" photos of culinary feats forumchanin. "Hippo" successfully coped with many challenges: pitch samsa and apples, roasted sausages, soup and suffered in the five-liter pot, made with roast lamb, cooked meatloaf with onion and mushrooms. Do not believe me? Look to this topicJust do not forget to eat!

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