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Alessio Sangalli wrote:

Hi. I'd like to build a small pizza oven, that can emulate a real one.
Back in Italy the following project got a good success.

Basically the base would be something like a square of 15" and 3 or 4"
high. It should be made of rather cheap "refractory" stone (???) I am
not sure this is the correct english term for this. It can be found in
any local construction store (at least in Europe).

Such a small oven would be very fast to heat up and would allow
temperatures in the raneg of 900-1000 F, ideal to coock a thin crust
pizza in one or two minutes, like in a real wood-oven.

The hard part is to find the electrical heater, powerful enough and able
to work at 1000F. Any idea where to find this kind of material, or a
newsgroup more specialized in this kind of "do-it-yourself" operations?

bye!
Alessio

I am also interested in this process. I found www.fornobravo.com
outlines materials etc. I've been interested in an outdoor stand alone
oven powered by hard wood for some time. I am a photographer here in the
US and shot a feature article a couple of years back where a home owner
installed a $20,000 oven in their house kitchen, it was wood fired.....I
learned to make awesome pizza as a result, Skim milk Mozzarella cheese,
Turkey pepperoni or shrimp, asago and provalone cheeses,black pearl
olives, Hot Italian sausage and diced Jalapeno peppers. Yum.....I do the
pan pizza crust I saw on PBS,....quite different from the dry cracker
crust I was making last year- most certainly an improvement, no pizza
stone or special oven required- just two 9 inch pie pans and about 4
table spoons of olive oil per crust.

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