Pizza Oven Plans
Forno Bravo has a great series of e-books available for free download on its web site (registration required).
Included are step by step plans for 3 styles of authentic Italian brick pizza ovens. Recommended.
Also available are oven management, cooking and bread books, and a great pizza book.
(Aug 12/08): James reports that there have been 11,000 downloads of the oven plans, and 25,000 downloads of the other books. Pizza oven from Forno Bravo plans, by MHA member Scott Goodman
Also: Online Brick Oven Forum
The Forno Bravo forum has 5,000 registered members, and is the largest online brick oven forum.
Bread For All
"Everything about bread, earth/mud and clay ovens"
- very cool blog by Stu Silverstein. Check it out.
Brick
Oven Map on Google August Vanderdonckt writes:
The map allows brick oven fans to find out if they are close to
somebody who already has one.
It enables people to upload pictures, communicate with each other
directly and locate ovens geographically.
Backyard
adobe - We built
this simple oven at our neighbour's 20 years ago. It is based on the
traditional Québec oven shape, an elongated dome.
Click on image for assembly photos.
Frank's Pizza Oven
Instructions for building a loam oven. Good pizza info.
Good list of oven links.
Ovencrafters
- simple, high efficiency insulated design developed by Alan Scott.
Proven in a range of sizes and applications including home, restaurants
and bakeries.
Definitive work on authentic hearth breads.
Includes instructions for building a backyard bake oven.
"Wing and Scott do more than get the details
right: they get the right details. It is difficult for me to imagine
any baker, amateur or professional, coming away from this book without
having learned something significant, even profound, about the art
of bread baking."
-Thom Leonard, author of The Bread Book
Woodfiredpizza.org
Good site with instructions for an Alan Scott style oven.
A simple, fully-illustrated handbook for
making an oven from earthen materials (similar to adobe and cob).
Provides clear, step-by-step instructions for building and firing
the oven. Also complete directions for making sourdough bread in
the best (and simplest) artisan tradition.
This unique study of the role of the bread
oven in rural Quebec society also gives complete instructions on
how to build a traditional outdoor bread oven. 115 pages, many illustrations.
Hikary Fukazawa, a participant at the 2003 French
bake oven workshop, returned to Japan and built his own oven. Hikari
writes:
Here is the picture of my bake oven.
Our bakery is going so well.
Last Saturday we sold out 30 pizza at the Saturday evening market.
Of course I baked by wood fire.
Every day my wife Shuko is baking 10kg wheat flour and selling out
in a short time.
We will increase products little by little.
But we will keep making hand made bread.
Prefabricated Ovens - These can simplify the construction process a great deal
Fayol -Excellent
oven made from a unique clay deposit in Provence, France, that has
been used for ovens since Roman times.
Traditional
French Oven - from Gasogne region, southwest of Bordeaux.
Similar shape to Quebec oven, built from brick.
A well-illustrated CD (in French) on brick dome oven construction is
available from this web site.
1900's American
- the oven at Black Diamond bakery in Washington state has been in continuous
use for over 90 years. It has a 10 foot by 12 foot hearth. Photos.
Historical oven in Waterdown,
Ontario. We partially documented this recently unearthed 10 X 10 oven.
Our Excel spreadsheet template that simplifies "baker's percentage"
sourdough calculations
Interesting Links
Boulangerie Anna
Anna is my sister in law. She became a bread head about 10 years ago
after working at Terra
Breads in Vancouver. She now has her own bakery on the French Riviera,
and it is one of the best bakeries in France.
The
Bread Bakers' Forum Comprehensive website maintained by Beth Hinkle . Includes
brick oven page, including list of builders, manufacturers, websites,
books, articles.
