"Brooklyn1" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:24:12 -0700 (PDT), ImStillMags
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>On Apr 17, 3:09 pm, Jim Elbrecht > wrote:
>> On 17 Apr 2012 21:00:47 GMT, notbob > wrote:
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>> >On 2012-04-17, ImStillMags > wrote:
>> >> A local company here is marketing these coolest ever, build your own,
>> >> brickwood ovens. Check out the website and the video.
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>> >> This is soo cool. I wish I had a backyard. Can't really put one in
>> >> a condo.
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>> >>http://brickwoodovens.com
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>> >> what a fabulous idea.
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>> >Whatta costly sumbitch! $1000 to build yer own brick oven? I'm
>> >not seeing the price of the plans. I am seeing the tools, which are
>> >another $500-1000, unless you have a well supplied neighbor. Yeah,
>> >cool if you gotta couple Gs ta' blow.
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>> >You think Sicilian peasants have $2K fer basic oven? There are cheaper
>> >alternatives. If you folks wanna get into this, I'll start posting
>> >some links I have. Been researching this for a couple years, wanting
>> >one of my own, but two K is too much!
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>> Not just the money-- In my research [and I *still* haven't gotten
>> around to mortaring things together] I'm pretty sure that is a
>> terrible design for a backyard oven. Too much mass, and not a good
>> shape. Domes are a lot more efficient unless you're intending to
>> cook 100 pizzas every time you pre-heat the oven.
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>> Is fornobravo one of the sites you've checked out? I'd love to hear
>> the opinions of the guys on one of their forums.
>> http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/
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>> They have a complete oven for $2150 [not that I'd spend $2K-- but if
>> I could have either oven free, I'd prefer the fornobravo
>> one]http://www.fornobravo.com/store/Primavera60-Assembled-24-Wood-Pizza-O...
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>I don't consider it just a pizza oven, more like a pizza/bbq/bread/etc
>oven. But to each his own.

Many folks where I live have similar ovens to heat their house and
make hot water, cooking with them goes without saying, but very few do
because temperature control requires too much tending. In fact I have
a water jacketed wood stove in my basement (it's a huge thing), it
will supply my baseboard heating and my domestic hot water, and I can
cook on it and in it. But it's not worth the effort to tend a wood
fire 24/7 and cord wood is no longer cheap. It's a heck of a lot
easier to use a perforated pizza pan in a modern oven and if one wants
they can use it in their outdoor grill... I make pizza in my Weber
several times each summer when it's too hot to light my indoor oven.
Spending thousand$ on a stupid wood oven is as dumb as dumb gets... I
don't think IQs go that low. It just doesn't make sense to spend
thousand$ to cook something that costs like $5.
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What kind of heatiing element does your oven have? At what temp do you bake
your pizza? How long does it take? What is your dough recipe? How much
flour, water and oil is in the recipe? How much yeast? Do you rise it once,
more than once, or overnight?

Kent