Fully fired the oven this weekend, producing some awesome pizza. Also managed to blacken the bases of a few too! The oven seems to need a bit of calming down once the fire is moved back. Using trays is a good way of backing off the contact heat from brick for a while. It’s the opposite problem to cooking in an oven where you end up overcooking the topping in order to get a crispy base. Here the base can literally cook in 30 seconds leaving the topping undercooked.
Also had a wonderfully constructed Thai Chicken number ready to take out, when a big clod of clay detached itself from the oven roof and dropped in unannounced, rendering the pizza into a sizzling mess. This was part of the clay I used to patch up the roof around the flue. Going to need to rethink the flue I think. Also need to fill up some additional cracks that appeared through the Vermiculite layer.
Recipes to follow.
Tags: portable pizza oven
You have a wonderful site. Well written, informative, and extremely entertaining. Love to see more videos. I’ll check back often to see your progress on the pizza oven.
Why thanks for the feedback. Thinking about some more video ideas… Also thinking about some added features to ‘pimp the oven’. An iPod dock perhaps?