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Beware of the Clay!
Don’t try to build with this mixture! When thinking about gathering building materials for building one of these ovens, one of the most important considerations is the mixture you need to construct the...
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Cracks!
A very quick post about cracks. Lots of people contact me in a panic about cracks appearing in the oven layer during the build. Let’s start of by saying that it is very likely that you will get some...
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Oven Building Course, September
I’m running another oven building course at the Sustainability Centre, nr Petersfield if you fancy coming along. This next course is on Saturday 13th September and costs £75.00/person for a whole day....
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Happy Pizza Oven Builders
Last month’s Delicious Magazine article has already motivated some folks to have a go at building their own ovens. You can see a couple of readers attempts in this follow-up article....
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Oven Building Course, September 2014
Thanks to everyone who came to the oven building course at The Sustainability Centre on Saturday. I had a really great time with you all. Here’s the group photo I promised to post. Happy building! Simon
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Resilience
Anyone who has followed this blog over the last few years will be familiar with articles I post that demonstrate how, periodically, I neglect the oven and then have to undertake major repairs. This...
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Everything you need to build your own traditional pizza oven
In my book I outline the steps one should follow to build a traditional pizza oven. As a result of following these instructions, lots of people all over the world have now built their own ovens. One...
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Oven Recipes: Tandoori Chicken and Naan Bread
Tandoori chicken has to be one of the most popular Indian dishes, and while making it at home is fairly straight forward, recreating that authentic flavour you get from an Indian restaurant can be...
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Delicious Magazine Article
Just a bit of shameless self-promotion here. Delicious magazine have just updates their website and have made a shiny new version of the article published last year about my oven (and how to build...
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3, 2, 1…..You’re back in the room!
Almost two years! I can’t believe the last time I posted on here was almost two years ago. That is just crazy! I have been really busy with other life stuff (mostly the day job) but still – TWO YEARS!...
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Just add water!
Hey, oven lovers! This is a tiny little post to show you that the clay:sand mixture we use to build these super ovens can be recycled (or rejuvenated). As you will see, if you read my previous post, I...
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