How to build a Pizza Oven

Step 8 Using the oven

Now comes the fun part of having such a oven. Maybe the first time you bake, you have not enough or too much heat. In my case, i heat the oven for 2 hours and then take out the remaining ashes. After another hour of "soaking" it's ready to bake. Soaking means letting the temperature even out in the oven. This timing actually matches my normal dough fermenting pattern.
Here you can see a couple pictures of my baking endeavors.
You can see some of my "devices" that i need to bake as well. To remove the ashes, i use a coco-handbrush mounted on a broomstick. I was lucky to get a wooden bread peel for free and one made of aluminum as a gift. I have a infrared thermometer that goes up to 550 Celsius and 1000 something Fahrenheit. You could throw in some flour and see it turn brown. This should happen in 10 to 20 seconds. Then you have the right temp to bake bread.

Since this is my first instructable, forgive me my wrongdoings. Maybe you see some orthographical or grammatical oddities, that's because English isn't my native language.
I will read your comments and correct any errors and omissions, you make me aware of. If there is enough interest, i could make some baking instructables as well. Having a oven isn't the same as using it.

In the meantime, i made a baking instructable for the Challah-like braid. You can find it here:

Braided bread

By the way, the guy you see on the photos is my brew-buddy Willy, someone had to shoot the pictures and that was me. We have a nice homebrewery together and brew on a (more or less) biweekly basis.

Thomas

Comments

[gingboote]

amazing... thankyou, you've inspired me.... I'm going to start collecting materials and plan for my own oven. Have wanted to make one for about a year but have never been brave enough on my own even with lots of research!! This is a very helpful concise and enjoyable instructable to read...will try to enlist the help of my friends with the promise of pizza and home made champagne!! :-)

[t.rohner]

Thank you for your nice comment. Some help is definitely desirable. What kind of champagne do you make? I used to make elder flower "champagne" for years. This year i made elder flower sirup. It's very nice in a glass of prosecco or champagne.(even with plain water...)