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I made a bootleg pizza oven yesterday. It was pretty simple. They sell these attachments for like $80-120, and that felt too expensive. $11 for some steel flashing at the hardware store and an hour of time and I was done. Nuts/bolts or rivets (I used the latter), and something to cut the metal with (I used some snips).
I used charcoal hardwood, it should burn hotter and give a better flavor. I also already had a steel stone, a non steel stone should work (though cheaper ones can sometimes crack under high heat).
I made 3 pizzas with this. One is a basic Neapolitan style. Another was similar, but with a thicker crust. And a third was a sort of thicker style in a pan (like a Chicago stuffed, but not quite that big). It all went pretty well. The stone got super hot. I will play around with different hardwood/coals and pizzas in the future. Here are some photos!
The last two pics.
I love the way the crust is bubbling up in the pic of the pie in the oven. That tells me your heat/stone combination is working the way it should (though I am no expert). I can tell you that the best homemade pizza I ever made was by making my own dough and using a stone …..and getting my oven as hot as I could (not a real pizza oven, just my gas range in the kitchen). I love the traditional nature of all these food hobbies you have! Especially the part where you put in the extra time and effort to do it BETTER than the commercially produced versions. THUMBS UP Evan!
I made a bootleg pizza oven yesterday. It was pretty simple. They sell these attachments for like $80-120, and that felt too expensive. $11 for some steel flashing at the hardware store and an hour of time and I was done. Nuts/bolts or rivets (I used the latter), and something to cut the metal with (I used some snips).
Was this your own design or did you find it on the internet? I would like to look into how you built it
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Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)Jim, Evan has been posting so many awesome projects that you mistook this one for his, haha.
Chuck, thank you.
Colter, really I just grabbed steel flashing at Lowe’s, aisle 35ish, for about $11. I wrapped it around the outside of my grill base (that way the heat can’t escape as easily), marked where that was, then brought it over to our shop, drilled pilot holes the same size as the steel rivets I was going to use, then riveted it in two spots (the sheet was about 1.5x the length I needed, so I doubled up half of it). You could just nut/bolt it too. Then I drilled a hole to start the snips and cut out a rectangle that was about a half inch wider than my peel on each side. I went 3.5 inches tall, I’ll likely change that to at least 4 inches, maybe 4.5 inches.
I want to get some oak or other hardwood to cut into small pieces to see how that does. The hardwood charcoal I got is oak and it worked well, but I’d like to experiment some.
Oh crap, I DID mistake that for another Evan project. Damn, there is some real talent in this club. Handcrafted Bier, traditional cured meats and hand-tossed wood fired pizza. I see all of this as being very closely related Why haven’t we opened our own full scale pizza & pints place? ….now might not be the best time to open though! LOL
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