Oven's name: Sam's oven

Pictures from the construction

Photos by: Sam G

Location: Mill Park, Melb, Australia.

Title: Amore mio

Description: Recent trip to italy 2007 drove from Sicily to Venice stopping along the way. Inspired by Italian cooking especially in wood fired ovens all I could think about was this oven and all the tings that I could cook. Having 20 years of experience in Italian pasty cooking which I no longer do… and miss very much. I built my oven from scratch. Yes, using refractory bricks and yes insulated properly. It had turned out EXACTLY how I wanted it. We cook pizzas, bread and everything else in it all night, on a family get together. The next day in goes the roast or biscuits depending how much wine we have on the night before. Thinking of building one?

DON'T THINK... DO

Here are the measurements:
Dome Size Internal -
width 1100mm X height 550mm
Size of Refractory bricks - 230x15x50mm - 100 were used, cut in half.
Floor base - size of refractory bricks - 305x305x50mm - 16 were used.

We cooked 48 pizzas, 3 trays of small chicken pieces, cleaned out the ash and baked about 16 small ciabatta bread rolls, and froze them for later. They were gone within a week.. Now i have just brought a 20lt dough mixer. Looks like i have to start making bread more often and freezing it.