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"Giusi" wrote in message
The wholly hand built ones. like my old one, are tons of masonry.

Ours isn't.

That's why it takes 12 hours to heat up.

Ours takes three or four hours, depending on ambient temperature, wind and
moisture, to get to enough heat to bake a month's worth of very good
bread. Pizzas take far less time, in fact you bake pizzas while there is
still fire in the oven.


One about 30 inch diameter 18 inch high is what I have in mind

Why? I've never seen one so small.

That doesn't mean anything except that you've never seen one so small.

The wood one uses is a metre long!

Not necessarily.
I
think you are paying too much attention to how it looks and not enough to
how it works. You build the fire, hear it

Does it sing???

and it stays hot for hours and hours, the temp going down all the time so
that you cook things at high temps, then sort of high, then moderate...
you get it.

Not everyone needs that range.

In pizza parlors they feed the fire for the 2 hours they are using it, so
there has to be room for the wood as well as the pizza. What you
describe would hold only one pizza or one loaf of bread, so where will
the wood go?

I think you're the one who's being unnecessarily precise. An oven which
would only be used for home pizza making doesn't need to be big. Even one
used for bread doesn't need to be much bigger than what Mike's talking
about. 'Pizza parlours' are commercial and can't be compared with someone
making a pizza oven for personal use.

In fact most pizzas for take-aways and restaurants in UK are made in huge
factories and shipped, probably frozen, to the outlets. I doubt that they
ever see the inside of a stone pizza oven.

There is no standard mud/stone/earth/bread/pizza oven. There might well be
optimum ones for commercial or even home use but it all depends on what
you want.

1m lengths of timber wouldn't fit into our oven and it works extremely
well.

Mary

Here is my experience. My name was even mentioned in terms of pizza ovens.
I was obliging.
http://www.judithgreenwood.com/think...-burning-oven/

I can make pizza in a combo microwave and grill oven. I think he's going
for something more here. I think it is lovely that people like your husband
and the OP are building ovens, but asked about pizza ovens, my response is
the above, which you don't like.