Pizza Week! – Day 4: Brick Oven
October 23, 2008

"This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it
And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention" -Talking Heads
Prepare yourself, I have a lot of pictures today, and you better look at every single one! It's normally much more than I like to do, but I just couldn't decide which pictures to delete. I'm just so happy about my new oven! Honestly, if you have the space, you could easily make one too! It was just me and two of my friends who built this and none of us have any masonry experience. It cost me a little over 400 dollars (in Bermuda where everything costs more) and only took us a total of about 10 hours. The three of us got together after work once a week and worked for about 2 hours each time. About 5 weeks later it was completed. Honestly my two friends did most of the manual labor; I was the brains of the operation. I took lessons from my Grandfather who taught me a long time ago how to be a good foreman.
Here are the pictures of the whole process. There's not much else to tell you other than that the end result is totally worth it. I would have liked to add insulation to the outsides, but I couldn't find the stuff in Bermuda and was also running out of money so I decided to just leave it. Because of this, it doesn't stay hot for almost 24 hours on only one firing like many brick ovens do. Had I insulated it, it would have taken a lot more money, and way more time.
Pizza Week Menu:
Day 1: Dough and Sauce
Day 2: Toppings
Day 3: Grill-Oven
Day 4: Brick Oven
Day 5: Party Pics
PWPlus: Breakfast Pizza
PWPlus: Leftover Pizza Ravioli








































