Hi Dave,
I'm kinda new here too.. I did a newsgroup search on 'food' just before
thanksgiving and found this place, and also rec.food.cooking..
I have no clue about your pizza oven thing.. I just wanted to say welcome.
hehe
lucy

"Dave Berger" > wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am a first time poster here. I have just moved into a house with an
> installed Portuguese pizza / bread oven. This is made out of
> terracotta and has no chimney and a cast iron door. Our problem is
> that we can't seem to get it working with charcoal without smoking
> ourselves out. I am tempted to put a chimney on it and just light a
> fire in there.
>
> Is this a bad idea? Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave