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Make your own backyard pizza oven
If you love the idea of cooking pizza in your backyard, but don’t want to make a huge permanent structure – this guide is for you. And it only takes one hour.
Here we’ve got the lowdown for making a quick and easy pizza oven from clay bricks. The best part is that when you are finished cooking with it, you can simply disassemble it and pack it away for later use.
You will need:
- 96 used clay bricks (not cement bricks)
- 3 layers of lightweight cement board for the base
- 8 x 60cm pieces of angle iron (similar to that of an iron mattress base)
How to:
- Lay your lightweight cement board on top of each other on a sturdy table to make your base.
- Make the first layer of bricks with seven bricks across and four bricks deep.
- Now add another layer of bricks on top of the left and right hand sides to start making the wall. There will be four bricks on each side, sitting on top of the base.
- Next up, add more bricks to the wall but place them vertically instead of horizontally.
- Now place two pieces of angle iron across the top horizontally, facing each other, the same width as the bricks, to make the roof. Fill each layer with bricks to complete the roof.
- Carry on doing this with your six other pieces of iron and bricks until the top of the roof is covered. Before you do the final two pieces of iron, cover the back wall with horizontal bricks.
- Now you can add your kindling and a few larger pieces of wood. Light them and allow the oven to heat up to temperature for around an hour before sliding your first pizza in there to cook for a couple of minutes.
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