The Kings Wood Fired Pizza Oven Thread

[hademall]

Red gum, Stringy bark, Iron bark and Grey box. All good woods for heating.
They are dense and retain the heat.

 

[Immortality]

Wood needs to be dry and you need to watch what you use as it will taint the food if it's the wrong stuff.

 

[hademall]

I think its the hard wood that gets the temp into it quick.

Back when younger (a lot younger) Grand father told my father when he was young that the hardwood was what got the heat into it. The hardwood last longer burnt hotter, so cheaper to run. This was the old combustion heaters. Same principle.

Correct. I owned a fireplace business for four years, we sold gas heaters in the main, but we also sold slow combustion heaters and open fire boxes. A good solid wood (no jokes here) will last so much longer, and ultimately give out more heat.

 

[VS 5.0]

This might show it better.

(sorry about the shaky picture....)

I guess our little pizza oven is good for one large pizza at a time.

Cool set up and all but my eyes keep getting drawn to the background.

 

[Immortality]

It does help, I can spend hours down there. Add some music or some youtube video's and I'm set.

 

[vc commodore]

Just on a side note don't throw petrol in the pizza when you try and light it. I know a bloke who did this and when the petrol didn't ignite this same bloke reach in with a lighter. Well this same bloke lost his eyebrows and singed his hair. Very silly thing to do and this bloke learnt his lesson..

Had some twit put petrol on a drum full of wood we were going to use as a bonfire....He didn't tell me...End result...Burnt eyebrows, singed hair, burnt from the chest up....24 hour stay in hospital due to the burns on my throat.

Bonus...Pethadine....Knocked me for a 6er...Slept for a good 12 + hours...

 

[losh1971]

I think its the hard wood that gets the temp into it quick.

Back when younger (a lot younger) Grand father told my father when he was young that the hardwood was what got the heat into it. The hardwood last longer burnt hotter, so cheaper to run. This was the old combustion heaters. Same principle.

Nope not in a pizza oven. The hardwoods on their own don't get hot enough. I've had pizza ovens for years. I can't get enough heat using hardwood. I use a bit of hardwood for the show burn and coals but the main heat comes from wattle. In a wood heater yes hardwood all the way. Wattle is not good as it gets too hot.

 

[Immortality]

I wonder if your oven roof is too high, make it wider but not higher, heat rises.

The guy who I got mine from did a demo where they got it up to over 1000°C to demonstrate that the outside of the pizza oven was still cool enough that it wouldn't burn you.

Didn't you have a picture up of yours?

 

[losh1971]

Mine could be close to that. I've never known the actual temp. But it cooks a pizza in about five mins. I was told 500deg is what they get too.

 

[losh1971]

The dome shape of the pizza oven helps to circulate the heat, so in theory it should be nearly as hot near the lower parts of the oven.