This design works. My buddy built one yesterday using the layout from this video, I made a batch of dough, and we made some awesome pizza. As you might expect, the rear end of the cooking surface is hotter than the front end, so we had to rotate the pizzas halfway through the bake. No big deal. Pizza top and bottom cook rates were pretty even. We earned the lasting admiration of women, children, and small dogs and had a great time doing it. If you can't have fun making pizza this way, you should probably just order delivery. If you have to nitpick everything about the video and/or design, you're taking life too seriously. Great idea, ChefSteps!
Well said. This man is giving up his time to provide a sweet affordable solution to wood fired pizza ovens and like you said trial and error till you get the perfect pizza. I'm loving this and can't wait to try it this summer
1) Using regular bricks are fine, they won't explode or anything like that, they will just slowly degrade from repeated heating and cooling. Might take 50 or so heating/cooling cycles for this to be a problem but replacement bricks are cheap! However, use more expensive fire bricks if you want it to last indefinitely and can't be bothered to rebuild. 2) The big slabs should be made of an igneous rock like basalt, paving slabs should do the job, (basalt is called "bluestone" in NSW + Victoria, Australia), as concrete slabs aren't designed for continuous heating / cooling 3) Build up a big fire after you have built it then let it cool - this will highlight any major problems before you make your first delicious pizza!
I am still confuse for that big slab....I did not get It....what should I use....let me tell you what are the option I have 1.stone slab 2. Marble slab 3. Rcc concrete slab 4. Rock slab 5. Granite slab 6. Iron/mild steel slabs Pls I am looking for the reply.
Crazy to see this is a legit, adult-approved thing now. I did this at a friend's house in high school around 20 years ago, almost exact same design. Just seemed logical. Used bricks and large pavers leftover from their DIY back patio. Friend's mom got mad at me for ruining the bricks. Later she decided it was a creative idea, was no longer mad. We didn't have a proper peel, just kinda threw it in as best we could. Pizza cooked super fast. Crust was always done before toppings. Oh well. Time to build another one in my own backyard.
I had the idea of making a Wood-Fired pizza oven and did not know where to even start. All these other videos are very advanced and require a lot of time and material. This is the best video I've found for a very basic yet effective wood fired oven. It's cheap, portable, and gets the job done.
I made this today with spare bricks and pavers around the house. This is the absolute BEST way I've ever cooked a homemade pizza in my life. Without a doubt worth it; you are AWESOME! The crust honestly came out just as good as my favorite pizza joint in Jersey. AMAZING 🍕
That’s exactly what we did at home. Friends tore up a brick patio and gave us everything we needed. Zero dollars. First R&D run and we made the best pizzas ever at home. We did three more rounds and then took it on the road with the Boy Scout troop. We were the hit of the big event. We made 16 pizzas in the rain and nearly won the chopped competition out of 12 troops! I can’t wait to put it back up and make more. Cheapest and best thing I’ve ever built. Ugly but wonderful.
We made this improvised pizza oven this weekend and it turned out really really good. I used 25x12x6,5 cm bricks (standard here in Slovenia) and 60x40x5 cm chamotte plates - the ones that get installed into pizza and bread ovens. It took around an hour for plates to heat up. They are all natural, so no worries there regarding health safety. The plates are also heat resistant as they withstand really high temperature in real ovens. Next time I will try to get two plates closer together by 1 cm so pizza will cook even quicker. I will do this by installing just one line of bricks, laying them on their sides instead on laying them flat. Instead of 13 cm high I will get 12 cm. Chamotte plates cost around 30 € each but are worth investing if you plat to use it more than once. After all you can install them into real oven, but that is another story and another diy project! Cheers ChefSteps!
If only we could find chamotte stone plates in the US. Another channel that built this oven with no credit to Chefsteps had a crack in lower plate before first pizza.
@@robertbrewer2190 To get the chamotte stones I had to find a specialist, I am shure there is one in US :). Regarding the crack - I am no expert, but I would say that the "stone" was to thin to take so much heat directly or maybe it was moist.
@@damjanmarkovic452 sicer smo to do sedaj izvedli samo enkrat, amapak je bilo uspešno. Dizajn je pravi, pizza se je enakomerno zapekla oz je bila pečena z obeh strani. Tako kot sem navedel v zgornjem komentarju, bom naslednjič obe šamotni plošči poskusno dal malo bolj skupaj zaradi same hitrosti peke. Srečno in uspešno!
So I built this in my garden for about 35$. (Just the large Stones and some sand). In Norway that is really not much as costs here are HIGH compared to, well, anywhere. The bricks I just scavenged as you can find left overs anywhere, and you don’t need many. Now I’ve tried quite a few commercial pizza ovens for garden-area/space-use ranging between 600-2500$, and I have to say this is by far the best - Even in the fast & dirty just-stack-some-bricks-version. If you actually Seal the cracks (i lack the vocabulary for proper stone masonary in english as I am Norwegian, but I trust you to understand what I mean; "if you build it properly") it is a true ruthless pizzamaschine rivalling the heat of all the seven hells! Best home made pizza. Ever.
That is exactly what I was looking for when searching for DIY Pizza Oven. There really are videos showing you how to make a pizza oven yourself that requires full metalworking equipment to weld a steel oven door. This is DIY in perfection and that pizza looks nice. Wouldn't mind to have less black spots on the crust, but still.. fantastic
Built this today and made 7 mini pizzas on it! I used 5 cinder blocks and a larger slab for the base to raise it up to the perfect height when sitting on a chair and use the bottom part for wood storage. That made leveling very important. I used clay from my yard to level everything and fill up gaps where smoke was escaping. $45 all in on the project. Regular bricks can crack if they get wet then heat, so I also put a rain cover over it to keep everything super dry and prevent damage to the oven. Wish I could share pics, pizzas were amazing and it exceeded expectations!
Since it looks like everyone will ask, took 44 red clay kiln fired bricks, 2 16”x16” concrete paving slabs, (build shown in video). The extra base I built used 5x concrete cinderblocks, and one 24”x16” concrete paving slab. All the stuff from this video went on top of the 24x16 slab that was on the 5 vertical cinderblocks, rather than on the ground as shown in the video.
Also to those saying it’s dangerous, it’s not. Check out this link , after 240 cycles going from room temp to 900c every few minutes there were no explosions or anything like that, just some minor cracking/damage to the brick. So if you use this every weekend for years it’ll still work fine. m.th-cam.com/video/X-M-2ZrmHDc/w-d-xo.html
I built this ~2 years ago and have made dozens of pizzas with it, it's legit. Thank you. I'm looking to build a slightly bigger one now, but will probably keep the same design.
WOW! It worked! Great video thank you so much! I spent $66.59 (2 - 18 X 24 X 2 step stones, 47 - 7.75 x 4 x 2.25 standard bricks and 50 lb.bag leveling sand) and took about 30 minutes to level and construct. This is the best Neapolitan and also Gluten Free pizzas I have made yet because of this "hot rod" pizza oven!
I do love the traditional brick oven with all its possibilities, but, come on, you cannot beat this 30 minutes freaking nice pizza cooking thingie he made. Kudos for you dude!
After watching your video last night, I built this from debris from our house that burnt down a couple of years ago. Thank you I am so excited to bake something. It's been 2 years without an oven. Your awesome for making this video.
Great build! Just a warning to everybody else... You absolutely cannot use just any brick from the big box store. They must be lead-free. Also, cement - or conglomerate - blocks can definitely explode when they are heated. Be careful, y'all!
Great advice. What are the stone plates for the pizza to cook on and top? A fire brick runs $3.18ea (locally) so if he is making it out of 47 plus mortar and two large flat stones I cannot see where his pricing comes from to be under $50. It's a great idea but someone is gonna get hurt.
No mortar. Stack and go. Longevity isn’t the goal. This can be set up and deconstructed pretty easily. The only consideration I did was to put my regular cordierite pizza stone on top of the paver. It is smoother and food safe.
@@GadBoDag The bricks exploding, due to heat, is what Ben is trying to explain. With the heat being @750 degrees is why he brought that up. I'm no lead expert but please report your findings after 10 pizzas in this setup. The lead may not, or may, show and a simple blood test at a med facility will cover it as proof. My question is how the suggested unit will last over that same time. Can "big box store" bricks endure the temp swings? My experience shows they will not because I used some in support of a firepit and of the 6 used 0 are left.
I made a slightly modified version of this and tried it out today, worked surprisingly well, even though I was just using small sticks of leftover wood. So I had a hard time maintaining temperature, but even then I got a good puffy crust and some spotting in the bottom. So should be even better with proper hard wood and a bigger fire. Thanks!
@@gregordejaco1287 It's been a while now, but I think I made the vent in the back bigger, as a result of a bit of trial-and-error. Also, I think ours is a half-brick bigger, because of the size of the slabs we bought? Something like that. I still have this set up in my yard, and make a neapolitan pizza every so often, but since I have a bigger family, one thing that's hard here is making a lot of pizzas in a row. In a real pizza oven there's more room, so you don't have the "cool spot" issue. But this certainly works for a couple pizzas! For our family, we usually use 2 pizza stones in the oven (alternating between them), and a NY-style dough (that is, with oil), and cook them for 7-8 minutes at a time. Usually we make either 6 or 9 12-inch pizzas (each pizza ~210g), one after another, but we've occasionally done 12 if we have a lot of company. Super fun Friday night meal, every month or so.
Thank you for sharing these tips & tricks! The Prepsteaders channel recommended your video on how to craft a makeshift brick pizza oven, since she was doing an episode on how to craft a brick rocket stove for emergency cooking needs, and mentioned how to turn it into an oven, too.
I built this oven with some friends a couple weeks ago. First time firing pizzas was just ok. Second time, we used almond wood and that made all the difference! Pizzas cooked in about 5 mins. Bottom was perfectly crispy, crust was fluffy with a good bite. Toppings came out just right. They were some of the best pizzas we have ever had!
When using your brick oven so it doesn't turn out black and burnt you must continue to rotate it a quarter at a time every couple minutes. Since surface block seems to crumble cement bits on bottom of pizza it would seem wise to either use a screen or an actual pizza stone. I love the concept of your creation, man. Absolutely genius and easy to make on a budget!! Great video :)
As a professional, commercial, real-life bricklayer (mason) I lost it when he put the level across his cute lil dry stack diy brick "foundation" I like what he did here, that's a pretty ingenious little outdoor cooking setup. I liked this video and will be passing it along to all the various folks that don't understand that they really don't need or want, nor can they afford an actual brick and mortar outdoor pizza oven.
mitchelldbarnes serious question: if I am to make this semi-permanent, what kind of bonding material do I need? Or does it even require bonding at all? I figured if there is no seam between the bricks, it can be more efficient?
Nanorisk I think if you tightly stack actual fire brick this sort of oven will be adequately semi -permanent. Readily available common or paver brick will eventually crack and then fall apart under repeated heat stress, but refractory ceramic fire brick can handle pottery kiln temperatures and are very uniform in shape so they stack tightly and lock together quite well without mortar or any other bonding agent if you start with a smooth flat foundation. If you stack em’ up as tight as you can I think your pizza oven will stay put indefinitely. Just don’t hit it with your lawn mower...
@@mdbizzl Is there a risk in regular bricks exploding? or just cracking and falling apart? Are fire bricks more prone to damage from moisture and freeze/thaw?
My wife and I are very grateful for this video. We spend 15 usd in the construction of the pizza oven, we modify the bases and place volcanic stone that are cheaper although it takes longer to preheat. The result was incredible Really the best video
many thanks for this video. We made our oven following this video and it is absolutely perfect. We use it to cook pizza and also have a barbecue with burgers too. This is the best home build pizza oven on yourtube
Great video! I made a pizza oven today using bricks and pavers, however I used tile pavers instead of brick and my bottom paver cracked at 265 F. I see you’re using concrete pavers. I’ll grab some of those ASAP! Bon appétit!
I think if you want to make this food-safe, you need to (at a minimum) put something over the concrete paver, for example a pizza stone or pizza steel. I'd be surprised if the pavers are controlled for toxic metal content, since they are not expected to be used for cooking. Another idea would be to get a scrap of granite slab, which would cost around $200 for a 16x24 as shown, or maybe to cast yourself a lower slab from refractory cement. Either way you are looking at some $$, but not as much as a full blown permanent pizza oven.
I'd say at a minimum to be safe, get a pizza stone or 2 and put your food on that. Not too keen on putting my pie on a concrete slab that has God-knows-what in it being heated at such a high temp. Great vid overall and looking forward to giving it shot someday!
I'm moving of grid next week and now I can finally sleep knowing I won't go without warm food winter, thankyou very much I feel much better now I was becoming depressed bc I didn't know what I could afford. Thanks again
Found firebricks at Lowes - more expensive (about3.50 each) but seems to be the best approach. Looking for Bluestone for the flat surfaces or equivalent (ceramic may work - handles higher heat). I cannot wait to try it. Thank you for the vision.
Def safer option for a non electrical enginger like me! Plus my mom won't kill me for trying to mess with the oven.😂 I love Alex and ChefSteps for all these cookin hacks!
hello young one, please be careful as these bricks can explode. regular bricks are not made for dramatic temperature fluctuations. if you can get your hands on firebrick, please use those instead
Absolutely beautifully, i am the Pancake guy and I will be building this tomorrow morning this is the ideal thing for family and friends in the summer to enjoy the life that you live. The children will love this and will use it also, BRILLIANT for great memories.
I have been looking for a video that would show how to build an easy pizza oven. I can build this myself and for a low cost! Thank you so much for sharing! Love it!
I've been using my brick pizza oven like yours for 25 years . l take it camping , tailgating , friend's houses . Everyone's always amazed how well it cooks pizza . l got my bricks for free and l use unglazed terracotta tiles and they were a dollar at home depot 25 years ago . So my oven actually cost $2. I've made hundreds of pizza's on mine .
Building this oven was a great experience. Many have commented about material. I used red brick cores bricks made of clay. I used 2 concrete 14x16 pavers as my plates. However because this was an inexpensive project (bricks .86 and pavers 3.46) I opted to buy a pizza stone from Amazon for $20.00. I opted for pizza stone for sanitary and heat resistant reasons. I am very pleased that this makes wonderful pizza and it cost me $50.00 including the pizza stone. Hope this information helps others. Thanks for the video.
@@ryanhuber1491 the pizza stone is 15 x 12 and I used it in lieu of the paver. The oven got to 700f. I thought about setting the stone on top of the paver but opted not to bc I wasn’t sure if the pizza stone would get hot enough. (I didn’t want to ruin my one and only pizza 🍕.). But next time I will use the paver and then set the pizza stone inside and see how it turns out.
I will have to try it this summer! I can’t get enough pizza and have always wanted to try making pizza in an outdoor pizza oven! Also, that burnt bottom is the best! Great video, thanks!
True, but that would also DRASTICALLY increase the price. The Redbrick costs about $.88 each while Firebrick is $3.68; so instead of spending less than $40 on the Redbricks, you're spending $154.56 on Firebrick and that's before you even include the slabs. At that point, you might as well just get the $250 Ooni.
@@SupraViperhead Yes that's quite pricey. This would only be worthwhile if you had a pile of bricks lying around or could get some for free. I've got a tonne of bricks from free local sources, mostly through facebook
@@ThingsMadeOfOtherThings I keep my eyes out for them, but never see them. I bought about 12 bricks from Lowes with a $50 gift card that I got from work and figured I'd just accumulate them slowly.
I built one of these this summer! First couple didn’t turn out so well but last set I made I totally wreaked the first one with to much smoke and the second one literally cooked 8 minutes later was perfect! It’s a fine line between to much smoke I find, any tips appreciated!
My build was going so well, until 30 mins into firing up the wood, the middle slab exploded - lucky I wasn't too close! No idea what the slab was made of, but it was the cheapest in the shop - and looks like a compound. The bricks I bought seemed to be able to take and retain heat fine. Any recommendations on material for the paving slab base? Keen to try again!
Firebricks would make this a tiny bit safer, but, if they are the slightest bit damp, those can explode as well. No matter what material you use, this is an inherently dangerous oven. You got lucky and weren't close to it when it exploded. Others may not be. I've reported this video to youtube, and, with your experience, I suggest you do the same. Fire isn't something people should be messing around with unwittingly.
visiting vietnam, im from canada, cant get a pizza anywhere, tried one today it had no sauce and the pepperoni was hot dog, i had pictured making one just like this, nice to see it works, cant wait to give it a try!
Yeah, I would line the inside with fire bricks. The moisture inside the bricks and concrete slabs can kinda explode when exposed to high heat, but very cool idea.
you need to eat one of these pies yourself dude. I worked a beautiful wood fired oven and we had pies going in and coming out in 60 - 90 seconds each; if it wasn't right he would just make another one happen and it would take less than 5 minutes. And seriously, if you don't know this guy and this channel very well, he is quite the exacting stickler for excellence, and you would do well to not think you know better than him.
thorhale Cannot take one joke? Obviously youve read but decided stick to the first half of my comment. Ive had brick oven pizza like that before, and it’s phenomenal. This is looks delicious, and I said in the second half of my comment, I WILL try this and I said he did a great job. I guess you missed that part.
@@thorhale that's not a good wfo pizza, period. It's burnt, not charred. And it's easy to see why. I haven't watched his channel, but this absolutely it not excellence.
I remember when I worked pizza station and oven at my old restaurant job. the burns on our arms, the sweat on our heads, and the rush of the kitchen- oh the memories!
remember how you'd eventually make arm pasta by the end of the night with the combo of sweat and the flour from tossing dough? It's a good chunk of my gig now, and I love it!!
Saw this in the morning🤔 I have the bricks so why not ! Made it in the afternoon Super happy with the results kids also loved the new pizza oven. We are keeping it 🤗 Thank you chef.
Great idea and zuggestions/modifications from the comments as well. Looking forward to making one with a taller fire pit. I LOVE wood fired cooking and enjoyed it as I traveled with the military, I have always said I was going to build me an oven and believe I will start with this set up. Thanks for the idea,,,
Cinder blocks and pavers have extremely high amounts of toxic heavy metals in them. Its used in the manufacturing process to preserve and protect concrete. Not regulated at all because they are not meant to be cooked on.
For once I search on TH-cam for fast brick oven pizza and find this as the my first video. Amazing video and great details and there is no need for people to spend money on gadgets and then you have no place to put that Pizza Oven, Toaster Oven, Turkey cooker, Smoker, and the list goes on and on. Just build it and use it!!! That thing I bet if you had a larger brick structure above could smoke a brisket and then you could warp it an put in your regular oven for rendering etc.
Great vid, especially for newbs that want to begin simply and inexpensively. But I do have a few questions: 1: How long will it take for the fire to get up to temp? 2: How many fires will the concrete slab tolerate? 3: Have there been any updates/mods since this video aired? Finally, I'm wondering about how much heat is compromised without using the "dome," and whether you've adjusted the size of the rear vent (and the front opening) to gain maximum efficiency and a balanced top/bottom burn. Thanks!!!
Around 40 minutes from when the fire really gets going. And it depends on the concrete slab, I suggest getting basalt but a regular old concrete slab from Lowe’s could last around 50. And no there haven’t. You don’t NEED a dome to make pizza. This oven gets plenty hot to cook one very fast and personally no I didn’t adjust anything, simply wasn’t necessary.
The most important part of the construction, the vent in the back at 3:20 was only showed for a split second and there was nothing to show how to arrange the bricks to make the vent in the back....
So I demolished one of my wall and I've gotta say it's totally worth it. It's free and works great P/s: if you wanna try I highly recommend the foundation part of the house because it's the hardest working muscle of the house and will give a better flavor
I was surprised when my 18yr old son decided he was going to build one of these in our backyard. One point I can add to the advantages of this is that it is moveable/removeable. Use no mortar and you can put it anywhere, like at a campsite, even cooks in the rain (making the dough and forming the pizza, you need to plan for that). He also used pizza stones from William Sonoma (thinner, heat up faster, evenly distributes the heat under and over pizza), but those blocks will work too. And these little ovens make great pizzas with a smoky flavor like you would expect from wood fired ovens. He uses a infrared thermometer like shown here and on other sites. Be careful to watch them while cooking. They can turn to charred fast so be careful.
@@yuragimla8258 I'm sorry I don't remember. it's in this video though. I got them from Lowe's / Home depot (same thing as far as I'm concerned) outdoor garden department and they were extremely heavy. But they tolerate the heat very well.
Thank you! I saw a picture of a cool comales clay-slab wood-fired oven that someone made in Mexico and came across your idea that I can make asap. The hardest part (for me) will be getting the wood to burn!
Wow, thx. Just some minor ideas if people want to build this actually, and maybe have it semi permanent. - Use fireplace bricks. yeah, it will cost more, but then you won't have to worry about the bricks breaking, or exploding - If you go with a double outer wall, sou can hide the half bricks siticking out in the front
I love the simplicity and usefulness. I would just need to engineer a way to get it off the ground! I don’t want to be on my hands ‘n knees tending the fire. Also, having a counter on one or both sides would be a big plus!
I was just thinking a few layers of big cinderblocks as the base and lay down a layer of those big bricks so the cinderblocks don't get too hot, THEN build this. A little more expensive, but better than crouching.
I've seen basalt which is a type of volcanic rock but all pavers I have found in big box stores like home Depot are composite pavers made with concrete etc. I've been considering making my own fire bricks (lots of videos about this on YT) but I wonder if I couldn't just make the base, pizza cooking surface and top with cement and perlite and sand (to make it smooth)
Hey thanks for the video! I'm thinking of making a different variation incorporating some cinder blocks and a third flat stone as the fire base to get more elevation to save my back. 🤘😁
Cinder blocks will raise the pizza oven. Also, for the middle. Four concrete slabs on the top on the cinder blocks. Then, build the pizza brick oven as he suggested, and buy 4 pizza stones, you're welcome.
There's not enough heat coming on top so it's not even. I wonder if it would work to just remove the middle piece and treat it like a normal wood oven with the wood pushed to the back. Might be to make it a little bigger to make room though.
I made this oven. Got some great pizzas. There is a learning curve, to avoid too much charring . But this oven is great. Thank you. From Ramesh Dorairaj, Bangalore, India
I know this is an old video, but worth trying to ask. What if you used pizza stones like from the store instead of the large pavers? Aren’t those made to be able to withstand extreme heats and the ability to cool? Thanks in advance
I was thinking the same I understand these TH-cam videos are low-key advertising for their premium content they should still have said use firesafe bricks.
Im no expert, but I have some old heavy Victorian chimney stack bricks I think they would do? but I worry more about any moisture in the slabs turning to steam and cracking them? I would think you need to keep this set up really dry and bring the heat up slow to drive any moisture out the bricks Slowly. Just off to google pizza oven explosions.. 🧐
@@mileyeyedcoyote if you go down to your building supplier and ask the staff for "firesafe bricks" and they will show you. Firesafe bricks tend to be heavier and have flatter shape in comparison to regular bricks
Don't do it folks. Just tried but the lower slab exploded whilst heating up. Luckily we weren't nearby but the bang was audible from the house and there was concrete shrapnel all over the area!
I built this exactly as described In the video. Used maple logs and had fire full tilt for 1.5 hours. My temp on the paver still only got up to 450 Fahrenheit. Wasn't hot enough to properly cook dough. Any tips?
Grant I find your design brilliant and inspiring. May I make a couple of suggestions for version 2.0 If you made the lower chamber taller you could accommodate a junk tire wheel “ring” to start, concentrate, and supercharge the fire. Starting would be easier because you can build the fire in the ring and light it before sliding into the oven. The round shape and size would concentrate the heat under the pizza shape. Supercharging, like a charcoal chimney starter providing excellent ventilation by having the fire lifted off the ground allows very fast combustion. Only mechanical ventilation would be more effective. Faster pizza. :) Second suggestion would be to divert some lost heat to the back slot. A loose piece of break metal or angle iron spanning across the fire pit front under the lower paver would enhance the slot’s draw. The only change to the existing design would be a gap on each side so the break metal would have a place to slide into. Break metal is an architectural term for a piece of aluminum that has been bent usually at 90°, used around commercial windows and doors. ChefSteps could market a set of several metal angles with different vertical lengths to fine tune drafting. The metal would easily accommodate a branding embossment on the front :)
I built this with bricks from Lowe's. Was $65; took 16 minutes to construct. The pizza came out amazing, surprisingly good. Highly recommended.
What were the bricks that you used ?
@@thedestroyer3879 you should get kiln fired clay bricks.
Thanks for the first answer but i was also wondering what are the 2 flat stones
@@thedestroyer3879 idk just the biggest flat one they had. It's concrete ,not clay.
You use a certain type of brick and what are the slabs
This design works. My buddy built one yesterday using the layout from this video, I made a batch of dough, and we made some awesome pizza. As you might expect, the rear end of the cooking surface is hotter than the front end, so we had to rotate the pizzas halfway through the bake. No big deal. Pizza top and bottom cook rates were pretty even. We earned the lasting admiration of women, children, and small dogs and had a great time doing it. If you can't have fun making pizza this way, you should probably just order delivery. If you have to nitpick everything about the video and/or design, you're taking life too seriously. Great idea, ChefSteps!
Life's to short to be worried about the finer points, just having a go is the point!!🤝👏👍
Nailed. It. Well said here & ditto
Well said. This man is giving up his time to provide a sweet affordable solution to wood fired pizza ovens and like you said trial and error till you get the perfect pizza. I'm loving this and can't wait to try it this summer
@Holly... It's 1:40am and started building this right now... STARVING and what better way than to enjoy a Saturday-Sunday middle of night!!!
@@olguiq1013 you sound like my kind of person...no doubt assisted by a glass or two of something ...I trust it was fine dining 👍🤝🤗😉
1) Using regular bricks are fine, they won't explode or anything like that, they will just slowly degrade from repeated heating and cooling. Might take 50 or so heating/cooling cycles for this to be a problem but replacement bricks are cheap! However, use more expensive fire bricks if you want it to last indefinitely and can't be bothered to rebuild.
2) The big slabs should be made of an igneous rock like basalt, paving slabs should do the job, (basalt is called "bluestone" in NSW + Victoria, Australia), as concrete slabs aren't designed for continuous heating / cooling
3) Build up a big fire after you have built it then let it cool - this will highlight any major problems before you make your first delicious pizza!
I am still confuse for that big slab....I did not get It....what should I use....let me tell you what are the option I have
1.stone slab
2. Marble slab
3. Rcc concrete slab
4. Rock slab
5. Granite slab
6. Iron/mild steel slabs
Pls I am looking for the reply.
@@ashutoshdube6560 marble or granite is what u want
Granite is the best
How about just rocks from the woods? They are free.
@@marcdemell5976 well something flat is ideal i’d say but yet again those should work fine just don’t through your pizza on right away.
Crazy to see this is a legit, adult-approved thing now. I did this at a friend's house in high school around 20 years ago, almost exact same design. Just seemed logical. Used bricks and large pavers leftover from their DIY back patio. Friend's mom got mad at me for ruining the bricks. Later she decided it was a creative idea, was no longer mad. We didn't have a proper peel, just kinda threw it in as best we could. Pizza cooked super fast. Crust was always done before toppings. Oh well. Time to build another one in my own backyard.
Adjust the numbers of layers of bricks and the size of the vent until you get the perfect oven
I had the idea of making a Wood-Fired pizza oven and did not know where to even start. All these other videos are very advanced and require a lot of time and material. This is the best video I've found for a very basic yet effective wood fired oven. It's cheap, portable, and gets the job done.
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Like non rust coating on red bricks. Pls google it
I made this today with spare bricks and pavers around the house. This is the absolute BEST way I've ever cooked a homemade pizza in my life. Without a doubt worth it; you are AWESOME! The crust honestly came out just as good as my favorite pizza joint in Jersey. AMAZING 🍕
That’s exactly what we did at home. Friends tore up a brick patio and gave us everything we needed. Zero dollars. First R&D run and we made the best pizzas ever at home. We did three more rounds and then took it on the road with the Boy Scout troop. We were the hit of the big event. We made 16 pizzas in the rain and nearly won the chopped competition out of 12 troops! I can’t wait to put it back up and make more. Cheapest and best thing I’ve ever built. Ugly but wonderful.
How long did it take to heat up and cook a pizza ?
It took about 25 minutes to heat up the the oven/paver enough (650F+) then about 8-10 minutes to cook each pizza.
@@006guitarplayer that's fast
..thanks
How did it hold up using old brick? Did you use any brick with holes in them?
We made this improvised pizza oven this weekend and it
turned out really really good. I used 25x12x6,5 cm bricks (standard here in Slovenia) and 60x40x5 cm chamotte plates - the ones that get installed into pizza and bread ovens. It took around an hour for plates to heat up. They are all natural, so no worries there regarding health safety. The plates are also heat resistant as they withstand really high temperature in real ovens. Next time I will try to get two plates closer together by 1 cm so pizza will cook even quicker. I will do this by installing just one line of bricks, laying them on their sides instead on laying them flat. Instead of 13 cm high I will get 12 cm. Chamotte plates cost around 30 € each but are worth investing if you plat to use it more than once. After all you can install them into real oven, but that is another story and another diy project! Cheers ChefSteps!
If only we could find chamotte stone plates in the US. Another channel that built this oven with no credit to Chefsteps had a crack in lower plate before first pizza.
@@robertbrewer2190 To get the chamotte stones I had to find a specialist, I am shure there is one in US :). Regarding the crack - I am no expert, but I would say that the "stone" was to thin to take so much heat directly or maybe it was moist.
Svetovno! Razmišljam o podobni zadevi - a vam funkcionira ta design, uspete, da se ne bi dno preveč speklo, glede na zgornji del pice? Hvala!
@@damjanmarkovic452 sicer smo to do sedaj izvedli samo enkrat, amapak je bilo uspešno. Dizajn je pravi, pizza se je enakomerno zapekla oz je bila pečena z obeh strani. Tako kot sem navedel v zgornjem komentarju, bom naslednjič obe šamotni plošči poskusno dal malo bolj skupaj zaradi same hitrosti peke. Srečno in uspešno!
@@Acofodo hvala za odgovor!:) Mislite se da spraviti pečko na 400+ stopinj, da bi bila pica pečena v manj kot 2 minutah?
So I built this in my garden for about 35$. (Just the large Stones and some sand). In Norway that is really not much as costs here are HIGH compared to, well, anywhere. The bricks I just scavenged as you can find left overs anywhere, and you don’t need many.
Now I’ve tried quite a few commercial pizza ovens for garden-area/space-use ranging between 600-2500$, and I have to say this is by far the best - Even in the fast & dirty just-stack-some-bricks-version.
If you actually Seal the cracks (i lack the vocabulary for proper stone masonary in english as I am Norwegian, but I trust you to understand what I mean; "if you build it properly") it is a true ruthless pizzamaschine rivalling the heat of all the seven hells!
Best home made pizza. Ever.
That is exactly what I was looking for when searching for DIY Pizza Oven. There really are videos showing you how to make a pizza oven yourself that requires full metalworking equipment to weld a steel oven door. This is DIY in perfection and that pizza looks nice. Wouldn't mind to have less black spots on the crust, but still.. fantastic
I'm wondering if two wood blocks were too much? Maybe it would've come out less burnt had he let it bake for longer at a slightly lower temp?
The char is what puts the character in pizza!! Come to New Haven
Built this today and made 7 mini pizzas on it! I used 5 cinder blocks and a larger slab for the base to raise it up to the perfect height when sitting on a chair and use the bottom part for wood storage. That made leveling very important. I used clay from my yard to level everything and fill up gaps where smoke was escaping.
$45 all in on the project.
Regular bricks can crack if they get wet then heat, so I also put a rain cover over it to keep everything super dry and prevent damage to the oven.
Wish I could share pics, pizzas were amazing and it exceeded expectations!
Since it looks like everyone will ask, took 44 red clay kiln fired bricks, 2 16”x16” concrete paving slabs, (build shown in video).
The extra base I built used 5x concrete cinderblocks, and one 24”x16” concrete paving slab. All the stuff from this video went on top of the 24x16 slab that was on the 5 vertical cinderblocks, rather than on the ground as shown in the video.
Also to those saying it’s dangerous, it’s not. Check out this link , after 240 cycles going from room temp to 900c every few minutes there were no explosions or anything like that, just some minor cracking/damage to the brick. So if you use this every weekend for years it’ll still work fine. m.th-cam.com/video/X-M-2ZrmHDc/w-d-xo.html
I built this ~2 years ago and have made dozens of pizzas with it, it's legit. Thank you. I'm looking to build a slightly bigger one now, but will probably keep the same design.
WOW! It worked! Great video thank you so much! I spent $66.59 (2 - 18 X 24 X 2 step stones, 47 - 7.75 x 4 x 2.25 standard bricks and 50 lb.bag leveling sand)
and took about 30 minutes to level and construct. This is the best Neapolitan and also Gluten Free pizzas I have made yet because of this "hot rod" pizza oven!
OK but where did you get the recipe to make the pizza lol that’s where I’m struggling
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I do love the traditional brick oven with all its possibilities, but, come on, you cannot beat this 30 minutes freaking nice pizza cooking thingie he made. Kudos for you dude!
After watching your video last night, I built this from debris from our house that burnt down a couple of years ago. Thank you I am so excited to bake something. It's been 2 years without an oven. Your awesome for making this video.
Lmao 🤣 @ your house 🏠 burning down
@@steviealvaalbany2730 bruh
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Sorry for your tragic loss. 💙
I built this and use it regularly. My kids and I have fun making the dough and building our own pizzas.
Great build! Just a warning to everybody else... You absolutely cannot use just any brick from the big box store. They must be lead-free. Also, cement - or conglomerate - blocks can definitely explode when they are heated. Be careful, y'all!
Great advice. What are the stone plates for the pizza to cook on and top? A fire brick runs $3.18ea (locally) so if he is making it out of 47 plus mortar and two large flat stones I cannot see where his pricing comes from to be under $50. It's a great idea but someone is gonna get hurt.
I can't imagine the amount of lead transferred onto a pizza crust by briefly resting it on a stone would even be measurable, much less harmful.
GadBoDag I’m more concerned about those bricks just exploding actually
No mortar. Stack and go. Longevity isn’t the goal. This can be set up and deconstructed pretty easily. The only consideration I did was to put my regular cordierite pizza stone on top of the paver. It is smoother and food safe.
@@GadBoDag The bricks exploding, due to heat, is what Ben is trying to explain. With the heat being @750 degrees is why he brought that up. I'm no lead expert but please report your findings after 10 pizzas in this setup. The lead may not, or may, show and a simple blood test at a med facility will cover it as proof. My question is how the suggested unit will last over that same time. Can "big box store" bricks endure the temp swings? My experience shows they will not because I used some in support of a firepit and of the 6 used 0 are left.
I made a slightly modified version of this and tried it out today, worked surprisingly well, even though I was just using small sticks of leftover wood. So I had a hard time maintaining temperature, but even then I got a good puffy crust and some spotting in the bottom. So should be even better with proper hard wood and a bigger fire. Thanks!
May I ask how you modified this version?
@@gregordejaco1287 It's been a while now, but I think I made the vent in the back bigger, as a result of a bit of trial-and-error. Also, I think ours is a half-brick bigger, because of the size of the slabs we bought? Something like that. I still have this set up in my yard, and make a neapolitan pizza every so often, but since I have a bigger family, one thing that's hard here is making a lot of pizzas in a row. In a real pizza oven there's more room, so you don't have the "cool spot" issue. But this certainly works for a couple pizzas!
For our family, we usually use 2 pizza stones in the oven (alternating between them), and a NY-style dough (that is, with oil), and cook them for 7-8 minutes at a time. Usually we make either 6 or 9 12-inch pizzas (each pizza ~210g), one after another, but we've occasionally done 12 if we have a lot of company. Super fun Friday night meal, every month or so.
Thank you for sharing these tips & tricks! The Prepsteaders channel recommended your video on how to craft a makeshift brick pizza oven, since she was doing an episode on how to craft a brick rocket stove for emergency cooking needs, and mentioned how to turn it into an oven, too.
Thanks!
I built this oven with some friends a couple weeks ago. First time firing pizzas was just ok. Second time, we used almond wood and that made all the difference! Pizzas cooked in about 5 mins. Bottom was perfectly crispy, crust was fluffy with a good bite. Toppings came out just right. They were some of the best pizzas we have ever had!
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When using your brick oven so it doesn't turn out black and burnt you must continue to rotate it a quarter at a time every couple minutes. Since surface block seems to crumble cement bits on bottom of pizza it would seem wise to either use a screen or an actual pizza stone. I love the concept of your creation, man. Absolutely genius and easy to make on a budget!! Great video :)
Using a pizza stone makes a lot of sense. Think I would prefer that to it going onto a concrete slab.
You used cement block ? cement is poisonous :D
As a professional, commercial, real-life bricklayer (mason) I lost it when he put the level across his cute lil dry stack diy brick "foundation"
I like what he did here, that's a pretty ingenious little outdoor cooking setup. I liked this video and will be passing it along to all the various folks that don't understand that they really don't need or want, nor can they afford an actual brick and mortar outdoor pizza oven.
mitchelldbarnes serious question: if I am to make this semi-permanent, what kind of bonding material do I need? Or does it even require bonding at all?
I figured if there is no seam between the bricks, it can be more efficient?
Nanorisk I think if you tightly stack actual fire brick this sort of oven will be adequately semi -permanent. Readily available common or paver brick will eventually crack and then fall apart under repeated heat stress, but refractory ceramic fire brick can handle pottery kiln temperatures and are very uniform in shape so they stack tightly and lock together quite well without mortar or any other bonding agent if you start with a smooth flat foundation. If you stack em’ up as tight as you can I think your pizza oven will stay put indefinitely. Just don’t hit it with your lawn mower...
What's the cost you typically quote them, and the biggest driver?
@@mdbizzl Is there a risk in regular bricks exploding? or just cracking and falling apart? Are fire bricks more prone to damage from moisture and freeze/thaw?
@@jmurphy6767 Yes!... and Yes!
Heat Slowly to drive the moisture out then you are good to go!
When you're camping and you carried a ton of bricks with you, but you don't have a level, you can always use a cup of water!
My wife and I are very grateful for this video. We spend 15 usd in the construction of the pizza oven, we modify the bases and place volcanic stone that are cheaper although it takes longer to preheat. The result was incredible
Really the best video
Awesome! Did the bottom and top get equally cooked? How long did it take for a pizza to be cooked?
many thanks for this video. We made our oven following this video and it is absolutely perfect. We use it to cook pizza and also have a barbecue with burgers too. This is the best home build pizza oven on yourtube
Him: you want that spotty leopard bottom
Pizza: Hello, I am black Panther
The best comment!
“Bruddah”
Yes
Lame
😂
how's the bottom looking? *looks completely burned* LOOKING GOOD!
It is called "leopard spotting" xd
Yeah..... I noticed that too lol
@@bajasoque7154 No "leopard spotting",
panther total black!!!
Looks like black panther not a spotted leopard that’s for sure lol
More like zebra spotting
Him: "How the bottom looking, wow, looking good."
Me: "nope"
You are right . That wasn’t “ leopard “ spotting of the crust . Maybe he needs to add another layer of bricks from the flame to the cooking surface
@@KeithMalikova Yeah I'm not an expert on pizza but I am an expert at burning things so I know a burnt food stuff when I see it lol.
@@KeithMalikova My thought when i saw it, it's either to close to the fire or he should have waited a bit before starting to cook his pizza
@@teddingtonbear3265
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
That wasn’t leopard spotting...that was panther spotting
i´ve just stopped by to said this is an awesome and cheap solution video for those with low resources, love to watch it ! my bless for u!
I'll make this for sure
Ok
I'm from Sweden and I need instructions from ikea
In the end we get some Lego instructions graphics, lego is Danish so you know barely understandable. But we might be able to make due
Self-deprecating humor is the best!
Just buy a few extra bricks so you have parts left over.
Don't think particle board and wood dowels are ideal for a wood fire oven 🤣
It is for firewood :)
Great video! I made a pizza oven today using bricks and pavers, however I used tile pavers instead of brick and my bottom paver cracked at 265 F. I see you’re using concrete pavers. I’ll grab some of those ASAP! Bon appétit!
PLEASE DONT USE CONCRETE PAVERS
Why not?
@@agamer5619concrete pavers are a good option.
I think if you want to make this food-safe, you need to (at a minimum) put something over the concrete paver, for example a pizza stone or pizza steel. I'd be surprised if the pavers are controlled for toxic metal content, since they are not expected to be used for cooking. Another idea would be to get a scrap of granite slab, which would cost around $200 for a 16x24 as shown, or maybe to cast yourself a lower slab from refractory cement. Either way you are looking at some $$, but not as much as a full blown permanent pizza oven.
I’m asking about this on main thread
At that price point you are beyond DIY on the cheap.
@@hefeibaopizza stones are $25 here in Canada. Very reasonable for DIY
I'd say at a minimum to be safe, get a pizza stone or 2 and put your food on that. Not too keen on putting my pie on a concrete slab that has God-knows-what in it being heated at such a high temp. Great vid overall and looking forward to giving it shot someday!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 you are silly
I'm moving of grid next week and now I can finally sleep knowing I won't go without warm food winter, thankyou very much I feel much better now I was becoming depressed bc I didn't know what I could afford. Thanks again
I am a professional block , concrete builder, so what, this is so great, i love simple and easy,great job!
LOVE when they talk about pizza, pizza is my love
Love the......Pizza is my Love! Me too. PASSIONATE!
Found firebricks at Lowes - more expensive (about3.50 each) but seems to be the best approach. Looking for Bluestone for the flat surfaces or equivalent (ceramic may work - handles higher heat).
I cannot wait to try it. Thank you for the vision.
Def safer option for a non electrical enginger like me! Plus my mom won't kill me for trying to mess with the oven.😂 I love Alex and ChefSteps for all these cookin hacks!
hello young one, please be careful as these bricks can explode. regular bricks are not made for dramatic temperature fluctuations. if you can get your hands on firebrick, please use those instead
Very good!! Esxelent work!! Very nice the music. Could someone tell me the name of the flamenco songs? Thanks
Do u mind sharing ur dough recipe?
Thanks
Absolutely beautifully, i am the Pancake guy and I will be building this tomorrow morning this is the ideal thing for family and friends in the summer to enjoy the life that you live. The children will love this and will use it also, BRILLIANT for great memories.
Best best best diy project I've seen ever. Im building one today. Thanks for this wonderful idea
This is the most rewarding video without getting too fancy with chemistry equipments and its basically fool proof
I have been looking for a video that would show how to build an easy pizza oven. I can build this myself and for a low cost! Thank you so much for sharing! Love it!
I've been using my brick pizza oven like yours for 25 years . l take it camping , tailgating , friend's houses . Everyone's always amazed how well it cooks pizza .
l got my bricks for free and l use unglazed terracotta tiles and they were a dollar at home depot 25 years ago . So my oven actually cost $2. I've made hundreds of pizza's on mine .
Where could one get terracotta, also what is it?
@@johnsnow3212 l got mine at home depot in the tile section . terracotta is the type and color of the tile
@@howard977 doesn't crack from thermal shock?
Building this oven was a great experience. Many have commented about material. I used red brick cores bricks made of clay. I used 2 concrete 14x16 pavers as my plates. However because this was an inexpensive project (bricks .86 and pavers 3.46) I opted to buy a pizza stone from Amazon for $20.00. I opted for pizza stone for sanitary and heat resistant reasons. I am very pleased that this makes wonderful pizza and it cost me $50.00 including the pizza stone. Hope this information helps others. Thanks for the video.
Did you put the pizza stone on one of the concrete pavers? What kind of temps do you get?
@@ryanhuber1491 the pizza stone is 15 x 12 and I used it in lieu of the paver. The oven got to 700f. I thought about setting the stone on top of the paver but opted not to bc I wasn’t sure if the pizza stone would get hot enough. (I didn’t want to ruin my one and only pizza 🍕.). But next time I will use the paver and then set the pizza stone inside and see how it turns out.
@@crespo1965 nice! Let us know how the stone on the paver worked.
Thank you! So simple and doable🙏
I will have to try it this summer! I can’t get enough pizza and have always wanted to try making pizza in an outdoor pizza oven! Also, that burnt bottom is the best! Great video, thanks!
I love the 8 bit ending music.
I usually Sous Vide My pizza then finish it in the brick oven.
That’s funny !!! Nice one
@@MargaretSmith-iz8ti I'd laugh if that guy actually sous vide his pizza
@keith cunningham Nots if youz finish its in the ovens
@@mdbizzl big time
Stop it!
close ups of the finished bubbly pizzas look oh so delicious..yummy..fabulous!
Basalt should be used for the slabs, and fired clay bricks instead of concrete bricks. Concrete at high temperatures can explode violently.
That was my first thought. I have seen stone explode from high heat, its not pretty. And i would hate for anyone to be hit by the debris flying.
True, but that would also DRASTICALLY increase the price. The Redbrick costs about $.88 each while Firebrick is $3.68; so instead of spending less than $40 on the Redbricks, you're spending $154.56 on Firebrick and that's before you even include the slabs.
At that point, you might as well just get the $250 Ooni.
@@SupraViperhead Yes that's quite pricey. This would only be worthwhile if you had a pile of bricks lying around or could get some for free. I've got a tonne of bricks from free local sources, mostly through facebook
@@ThingsMadeOfOtherThings I keep my eyes out for them, but never see them. I bought about 12 bricks from Lowes with a $50 gift card that I got from work and figured I'd just accumulate them slowly.
Yes but redbrick is clay not concrete. Should be fine, just not guaranteed to last as long.
years of playing will legos have led me to this moment
LOL YESSSSSSSS!
Grant is such a dad and i'm not even sure he has children
Camp counts.
wow! great pizza oven and the pizza cooks really well, didn't even get burnt. Tomorrow I will also try to cook like this
My mama in law who i live with has a bunch of scrap masonry in the bavkyard, she’s been wanting a pizza oven for 20 years. Gonna build this this week
I built one of these this summer! First couple didn’t turn out so well but last set I made I totally wreaked the first one with to much smoke and the second one literally cooked 8 minutes later was perfect! It’s a fine line between to much smoke I find, any tips appreciated!
Make sure your firewood is quality hardwood and well seasoned.
My build was going so well, until 30 mins into firing up the wood, the middle slab exploded - lucky I wasn't too close! No idea what the slab was made of, but it was the cheapest in the shop - and looks like a compound. The bricks I bought seemed to be able to take and retain heat fine. Any recommendations on material for the paving slab base? Keen to try again!
Get heat resistant bricks. Anything less will crack
Firebricks would make this a tiny bit safer, but, if they are the slightest bit damp, those can explode as well. No matter what material you use, this is an inherently dangerous oven. You got lucky and weren't close to it when it exploded. Others may not be. I've reported this video to youtube, and, with your experience, I suggest you do the same. Fire isn't something people should be messing around with unwittingly.
@@scottp8137 Thanks Karen.
@@klincecum Ya what a turd. I guarantee he's the president of his HOA enforcement and goes around fire extinguishing people's barbecues.
@@klincecum
Related to Freddo Cuomo?🤣😂
This is so cool
visiting vietnam, im from canada, cant get a pizza anywhere, tried one today it had no sauce and the pepperoni was hot dog, i had pictured making one just like this, nice to see it works, cant wait to give it a try!
I like this guy he describes it well a simple oven but he presented well
Yeah, I would line the inside with fire bricks. The moisture inside the bricks and concrete slabs can kinda explode when exposed to high heat, but very cool idea.
“How’s the bottom really looking?” (Charred) “WOW! Looking good”. 🤣🤣😂😂😂 seriously, though, I’m making this. Great job! 👍🏼
you need to eat one of these pies yourself dude. I worked a beautiful wood fired oven and we had pies going in and coming out in 60 - 90 seconds each; if it wasn't right he would just make another one happen and it would take less than 5 minutes. And seriously, if you don't know this guy and this channel very well, he is quite the exacting stickler for excellence, and you would do well to not think you know better than him.
thorhale Cannot take one joke? Obviously youve read but decided stick to the first half of my comment. Ive had brick oven pizza like that before, and it’s phenomenal. This is looks delicious, and I said in the second half of my comment, I WILL try this and I said he did a great job. I guess you missed that part.
@@thorhale that's not a good wfo pizza, period. It's burnt, not charred. And it's easy to see why. I haven't watched his channel, but this absolutely it not excellence.
I remember when I worked pizza station and oven at my old restaurant job. the burns on our arms, the sweat on our heads, and the rush of the kitchen- oh the memories!
remember how you'd eventually make arm pasta by the end of the night with the combo of sweat and the flour from tossing dough? It's a good chunk of my gig now, and I love it!!
Saw this in the morning🤔
I have the bricks so why not !
Made it in the afternoon
Super happy with the results kids also loved the new pizza oven.
We are keeping it 🤗
Thank you chef.
This is the video I was looking for
Love from India ❤
Great idea and zuggestions/modifications from the comments as well. Looking forward to making one with a taller fire pit. I LOVE wood fired cooking and enjoyed it as I traveled with the military, I have always said I was going to build me an oven and believe I will start with this set up. Thanks for the idea,,,
Get a portable metal such oven table. They have them so u can set hot coals on them an build this on to of that
Cinder blocks and pavers have extremely high amounts of toxic heavy metals in them. Its used in the manufacturing process to preserve and protect concrete. Not regulated at all because they are not meant to be cooked on.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 you are silly
This is awesome! I've been thinking of doing the same but always wondered why no one else has done it. Weekend pizza project.
For once I search on TH-cam for fast brick oven pizza and find this as the my first video. Amazing video and great details and there is no need for people to spend money on gadgets and then you have no place to put that Pizza Oven, Toaster Oven, Turkey cooker, Smoker, and the list goes on and on. Just build it and use it!!! That thing I bet if you had a larger brick structure above could smoke a brisket and then you could warp it an put in your regular oven for rendering etc.
This oven is the best. Pizza comes out so well.
Great vid, especially for newbs that want to begin simply and inexpensively. But I do have a few questions: 1: How long will it take for the fire to get up to temp? 2: How many fires will the concrete slab tolerate? 3: Have there been any updates/mods since this video aired? Finally, I'm wondering about how much heat is compromised without using the "dome," and whether you've adjusted the size of the rear vent (and the front opening) to gain maximum efficiency and a balanced top/bottom burn. Thanks!!!
Around 40 minutes from when the fire really gets going. And it depends on the concrete slab, I suggest getting basalt but a regular old concrete slab from Lowe’s could last around 50. And no there haven’t. You don’t NEED a dome to make pizza. This oven gets plenty hot to cook one very fast and personally no I didn’t adjust anything, simply wasn’t necessary.
@@shadowpanther298 Where do you get basalt from? Certainly not any old big box store like Home Depot.
The most important part of the construction, the vent in the back at 3:20 was only showed for a split second and there was nothing to show how to arrange the bricks to make the vent in the back....
At the end of the video they say they have detailed instructions on their website
@@easysnake205 ok but why was it not shown in the vieo. It is, after all, the important part of the construction.
So I demolished one of my wall and I've gotta say it's totally worth it. It's free and works great
P/s: if you wanna try I highly recommend the foundation part of the house because it's the hardest working muscle of the house and will give a better flavor
I was surprised when my 18yr old son decided he was going to build one of these in our backyard. One point I can add to the advantages of this is that it is moveable/removeable. Use no mortar and you can put it anywhere, like at a campsite, even cooks in the rain (making the dough and forming the pizza, you need to plan for that). He also used pizza stones from William Sonoma (thinner, heat up faster, evenly distributes the heat under and over pizza), but those blocks will work too. And these little ovens make great pizzas with a smoky flavor like you would expect from wood fired ovens. He uses a infrared thermometer like shown here and on other sites. Be careful to watch them while cooking. They can turn to charred fast so be careful.
We made this a family project on this beautiful New England weekend. It worked perfectly and cost less than $50. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hello, what type of material did you choose for that rectangular slabs?
@@yuragimla8258 I'm sorry I don't remember. it's in this video though. I got them from Lowe's / Home depot (same thing as far as I'm concerned) outdoor garden department and they were extremely heavy. But they tolerate the heat very well.
Im going to build this in Minecraft.
Wood fired pizza? How is he gonna get a job now?
Root Beer Hires,@@lucastenrreiro .
Imma build one with Redstone...
Why. ?
There’s another way to brew coffee:
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Hey I was wondering where could you find both grey slabs that you used to make the oven in this video? Also what size are the slabs?
About 24 inches by 20 inches
@@dairebaxter1619 THANK YOU I spent like 30 mins looking for the size
@@shadowpanther298 it was a rough estamate so get a bit bigger to be safe
i got this amazing video recommended to me , So thank you TH-cam Algorithm
Woooow! So glad I came across this guys video before going further down the rabbit hole of TH-cam stone oven builds.
Thank you! I saw a picture of a cool comales clay-slab wood-fired oven that someone made in Mexico and came across your idea that I can make asap. The hardest part (for me) will be getting the wood to burn!
Wow, thx. Just some minor ideas if people want to build this actually, and maybe have it semi permanent.
- Use fireplace bricks. yeah, it will cost more, but then you won't have to worry about the bricks breaking, or exploding
- If you go with a double outer wall, sou can hide the half bricks siticking out in the front
Yes you can even find "Used" fire bricks at stone yards and as far as the baking surface i would recomend a steel plate with a pizza stone
Will they explode when used on a wet rainy day?
I love the simplicity and usefulness. I would just need to engineer a way to get it off the ground! I don’t want to be on my hands ‘n knees tending the fire. Also, having a counter on one or both sides would be a big plus!
I was just thinking a few layers of big cinderblocks as the base and lay down a layer of those big bricks so the cinderblocks don't get too hot, THEN build this. A little more expensive, but better than crouching.
Thanks for the tutorial. I'm going to use fire bricks for extra safety. Anyone tell me what the 2 large stones are?
I've seen basalt which is a type of volcanic rock but all pavers I have found in big box stores like home Depot are composite pavers made with concrete etc. I've been considering making my own fire bricks (lots of videos about this on YT) but I wonder if I couldn't just make the base, pizza cooking surface and top with cement and perlite and sand (to make it smooth)
Hey thanks for the video! I'm thinking of making a different variation incorporating some cinder blocks and a third flat stone as the fire base to get more elevation to save my back. 🤘😁
Cinder blocks will raise the pizza oven.
Also, for the middle. Four concrete slabs on the top on the cinder blocks. Then, build the pizza brick oven as he suggested, and buy 4 pizza stones,
you're welcome.
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@@blockbreaker8839 F in the chat for that one.
Grant you look like Rodrigo Santoro from Westworld my dude.
That was BURNT butttttt ofc, the technique is good !
No leopard spots... This was Black Panther!
There's not enough heat coming on top so it's not even. I wonder if it would work to just remove the middle piece and treat it like a normal wood oven with the wood pushed to the back. Might be to make it a little bigger to make room though.
I like the bottom to be like that. There are too many blonde and wet pizzas around.
@@ahpadt That's true..but burnt is still burnt. you went from one extreme to the next imo :)
...nope, that's how Neapolitan (which is what this is) pizza is done.
did it! We had wood fired pizza tonight! Thanks for this!
I made this oven. Got some great pizzas. There is a learning curve, to avoid too much charring . But this oven is great. Thank you.
From Ramesh Dorairaj, Bangalore, India
Awesome! Did the bottom and top get equally cooked? How long did it take for a pizza to be cooked?
oh im so trying this before buying an ooni or something
So this is what outdoor chef life watched lol
I was wondering where I saw this before lol
I know this is an old video, but worth trying to ask. What if you used pizza stones like from the store instead of the large pavers? Aren’t those made to be able to withstand extreme heats and the ability to cool? Thanks in advance
Over direct heat…pizza stone will get too hot and break
Watched several videos, liked this 1 !
I will definitely try this. Big pizza 🍕 lover
You say leopard spotting, I say burt mate.
Definitely burnt 😂
You know nothing, Jon Snow. Edit: if it aint grey, it is not burnt.
Who's burt?
If you haven't ever had wood fire pizza with a nice char on the bottom (which gives it AMAZING flavor) you're missing out!
Its just some black panther spotting
You should consider telling people what kind of stone they should buy, this could explode and potentially harm someone. I like the content though!
I was thinking the same I understand these TH-cam videos are low-key advertising for their premium content they should still have said use firesafe bricks.
what kind of bricks should I use?
Im no expert, but I have some old heavy Victorian chimney stack bricks I think they would do? but I worry more about any moisture in the slabs turning to steam and cracking them? I would think you need to keep this set up really dry and bring the heat up slow to drive any moisture out the bricks Slowly. Just off to google pizza oven explosions.. 🧐
does anyone know specifically which types of bricks are heat resistant?
@@mileyeyedcoyote if you go down to your building supplier and ask the staff for "firesafe bricks" and they will show you. Firesafe bricks tend to be heavier and have flatter shape in comparison to regular bricks
Don't do it folks. Just tried but the lower slab exploded whilst heating up. Luckily we weren't nearby but the bang was audible from the house and there was concrete shrapnel all over the area!
Firebrick then!
if i liked pizza, i would use this methods, looks LEGIT
I built this exactly as described In the video. Used maple logs and had fire full tilt for 1.5 hours. My temp on the paver still only got up to 450 Fahrenheit. Wasn't hot enough to properly cook dough. Any tips?
Grant I find your design brilliant and inspiring. May I make a couple of suggestions for version 2.0
If you made the lower chamber taller you could accommodate a junk tire wheel “ring” to start, concentrate, and supercharge the fire. Starting would be easier because you can build the fire in the ring and light it before sliding into the oven. The round shape and size would concentrate the heat under the pizza shape. Supercharging, like a charcoal chimney starter providing excellent ventilation by having the fire lifted off the ground allows very fast combustion. Only mechanical ventilation would be more effective. Faster pizza. :)
Second suggestion would be to divert some lost heat to the back slot. A loose piece of break metal or angle iron spanning across the fire pit front under the lower paver would enhance the slot’s draw. The only change to the existing design would be a gap on each side so the break metal would have a place to slide into. Break metal is an architectural term for a piece of aluminum that has been bent usually at 90°, used around commercial windows and doors. ChefSteps could market a set of several metal angles with different vertical lengths to fine tune drafting. The metal would easily accommodate a branding embossment on the front :)
Good suggestions, but please avoid aluminum like the plague.