Saturday, April 23, 2016

Oven In Provence



Here is a recently completed pizza oven in Provence France. The oven will not be used for bread baking so the oven opening was made extra wide to easily accommodate two pizzas with plenty of room to maneuver them around.





The location



Constructing the base with native stone


 Preparing base for concrete slab


Continuing slab preparation



 Rebar for slab


Creating slab


Slab finished



 Creating template for dome


 Constructing the dome


Completed oven 
Waiting for door to be fabricated



 The oven builders
To my right Abdel Fatah
To my left Fernand Toucourt

Oven Specifications
Made with native stone and firebrick. Insulated with vermiculite and Roxul. Stuccoed with mortar mix.

28.5” interior width
41.5” interior depth
16.5”  interior dome height
42.5” baking height

3.5” interior concrete slab

2 comments:

Mary Dorry said...

Hello, just came upon your blog looking at pizza oven designs...

I am looking for information & directions on converting an old wood stove into a pizza oven. I can email you a picture of my stove. You can email me as well.

Thanks
Mary @ thedorrys@hotmail.com

Breadhunter aka Stu Silverstein said...

Hi Mary,
It might be better to just create a new pizza oven rather than trying to transform an old stove, but who knows, most anything is possible. Sure, send me some photos.
Stu