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In fact, any food cooked in brick or clay ovens tastes better than in conventional ovens. 

PIZZA OVENS?

No! It is not a pizza oven. It’s an Outdoor Woodfired Oven. You can cook just about anything in them, it’s a pity that they are mistakenly called pizza ovens. These ovens generate a lot of heat but are more of a radiant type of heat. In spite of the intense heat, it does not burn food, but you must keep an eye on it, and learn how to cook with them. A thin crust pizza will cook much quicker (1.1/2 minutes no more), it’s tastier too!

I’ve seen and cooked myself exquisite cuts of beef, racks of lamb, legs, and shoulders of pork, roasted vegetables, bread, cakes, the list goes on and on, and of course pizzas. 

Try next time cooking a large dish with an assortment of vegetables, all well based in oil or butter, but better still with the juices from your meat roast.

These Are Unique Ovens That Will Enhance Your Property

If they are built right they are an asset to your property, that’s why I cannot stress enough to take care when planning to build it. Choose the right place, if it’s close to the house you’ll use it more often than if it is at a distance. 

Many people make a feature of it on their property, and cover the oven with some kind of structure. I don’t mean just four posts and a roof over it. 

MAKE A FEATURE OF YOUR OVEN
it will enhance your property

A wide and roomy concrete slab on the ground, easy to maintain clean, comfortable enough to seat by the oven. The pedestal described in the book, that’s where the oven seats, it’s waist-high so when you cook you stand comfortably there’s no need to bend down. 

This pedestal is constructed with cement blocks for strength and durability. It has compartments on either side for wood storage. Dry wood can be on one side and wet wood on the other side for smoking food, or for wood drying.

You can build a structure with 4, 6 even 8 posts, with a well-designed roof over it. I’ve built one many years ago in Frejus in the South of France with eight posts 8” (20cm) thick, with a waist-high wall all the way around, and the opening between the posts installed wood-framed panels with mosquito mesh.

It was really living in another dimension, we would team up with friends in the cool evenings and enjoy the breeze blowing through the pine trees, the food that kept coming out of that oven, and the comradery of the occasion, besides the warmth that the oven gave was most welcome. These create memorable times, bonding with each other. They were outdoor luxurious moments and I came to the conclusion that you don’t need to be rich to enrich your life. Simple scenarios just like this one have no price. So, take care of your oven project right from the beginning. The little extras that you put into it, will be rewarding in days and years to come.

ABOUT BUILDING THE OVEN

Throughout my life, I’ve built some of these ovens, experimented with building them with different techniques and materials. A technique that I’ve seen often being used with the aid of a string that is attached at the center of the base and is as long as the radius of the oven base. The position of every brick is determined by the length of the string until the top of the dome is reached.

I do not advise you to use the string technique because; 

1. a.             It only helps to keep the dome rounded and you can only use it so far up the dome.
2. b.             It will be fiddly work, positioning every brick just with the aid of a string, even if you use  

          a wooden block at the end of the string.

1. c.             You cannot finish the oven floor properly, one of the most important parts of the oven. 

          To try to lay the oven floor when the dome is all enclosed and the only possible opening   

          is the doorway is not a good idea. Even if you lay all the floor before building upwards,  

          and leave out the center brick(s), that is also making life difficult for yourself. 

1. d.           To build around the chimney and around the doorway, it will be difficult to build them just

          with the help of a string. Which you would not do anyway, and you will end up having

          to come up with some other way to build it.

Ask yourself why to complicate your life when you can build a temporary dome with materials that are easy at hand in no time at all. This way you can finish your floor and bring the walls up, enclosing the temporary dome. Every brick will have the right inclination as you travel up the dome. 

Building with a temporary dome on the top of the finished oven floor, then you are just resting each brick on that makeshift dome as you progress higher. The cement mix can then be applied on the back and in between the bricks, which will never be seen once you trowel the stucco layers

I find that using this system is the easiest, fastest, and with the best results. The only thing that you have to watch for, is that when you build the temporary dome not use any object bigger than your doorway. As long as you never forget that everything has to come out that way, you’ll be fine.

THE GOOD NEWS

This book is loaded with building tips and techniques. Not only will show you how to build your oven, but also the ground platform, the solid pedestal, the top cement platform which is the base of the oven, and the oven itself, and also where to place and install the chimney. 

The good news is that if you decide to go for this book you do not need to pay the full price of $21,95 for the printed versions. The printed paperback book is on a 30% Promotion until April 30th this year. Even if you do not have the intention to build your oven soon, you still can take advantage of the promotion and build your oven at a later date. Another option which some people have used because they were busy and had no time, they contracted a bricklayer to do the job following the instructions of the book. This promotion makes it a good deal because you are getting a printed version for almost the price of the e-book. 

If you do go ahead, a review would be most appreciated.

How To Keep The Excitement Going!!

Enjoy building it and cooking in it. Don’t be a stranger and keep the excitement all to yourself, share and let us all enjoy your project.

My books will be on the Self-Development subject, that’s what I’m familiar with through living or experiencing it, and their purpose is to assist anyone to have a better and easier life journey. 

Joining our Facebook group list can be extremely helpful in sharing and learning from the experiences of other likeminded people. It’s a great way to solve problems and learn new ways of doing tasks, just by asking the community. How to…? How did you…? What happens if…? And other questions that arise during the construction of your oven.

SHARING IS LEARNING

This is my first book, it shows you how to build an outdoor oven, which will add another enjoyable feature to your property. My second book INSTALL SOLAR ENERGY is about the ins and outs of solar energy, shows you how you can install a solar system virtually for nothing and with no upfront cost to yourself.

The third book that I’ve just finished and will be published soon WHY 91% OF BUSINESSES FAIL? I read an article about this and it shocked me, and thinking back remembering people that I knew that went through that trauma. So, I decided to write a book about it highlighting the things not to do, and the things to do to succeed. I’m not interested in concentrating on failures due to natural or World financial disasters or similar, those cannot be controlled. This book concentrates on business mistakes people do and how to avoid them. 

Also, how to meditate, how to eat healthily, how to light-exercise keeping your body reasonably fit. All these subjects are vital for a healthier and happier life and are ignored. People get shocked when I tell them that my last visit to the doctor was 47 years ago. 

Most people believe that they should go to the doctor for a checkup every year. They do it because throughout their lives they have not educated themselves to listen to their bodies telling them when things are wrong, they don’t know how to read the signs and be strong enough to take action. That’s far better than any pill. It has served me well and I want to pass on that knowledge. This is not a technique that you are going to acquire overnight, it takes years to master, it’s a long process and you must not stop suddenly seeing your doctor if you feel that you need to.

 Obviously, what I’ve just mentioned is not for you if you are suffering from some ailment, and are under treatment, you must go to the doctor and keep up with your doctor’s appointments and instructions and your medication. I am referring to people that are reasonably healthy and can get even healthier and live a better life with natural methods.

As you can see my books will cover many aspects of living, always focusing on improving oneself. I am hoping that everyone joining my social media group list will share their experiences. Sharing is learning. 

Variety is the spice of life. 

Happy building, enjoy the food!!