Monday, November 22, 2010

Build Your Own Pizza Oven Class at Freestyle Escape

Ever wanted a pizza oven in your backyard? Well our guests did. Joining us for a fun weekend Cameron from The Clay Shed and Richard Cartledge from Gravity Pools were there to guide and assist. Cameron supplied all the materials required while Richard taught us the techniques including how to create faux rocks.


Cameron from the Clay Shed


Tom and Elizabeth placing the heat pavers on top of the calcium silicate board


Richard from Gravity Pools placing the sandbags to create the dome


Cameron placing fire bricks for oven rim


Richard adding brickie loam to create dome


Elizabeth perfecting the dome before the plastic sheet goes on (preventing the cement from sticking to the sand)


Julia and Elizabeth covering the plastic sheet with the first layer of heat resistant cement


Julia and Richard adding more cement


Mixing the second batch of heat resistant cement


Richard and Matt putting in the flue


Julia placing the insulation blanket over the top layer of heat resistant cement


Cameron finishing the insulation blanket


Tom and Richard placing on the next layer...


...and then the next (Richard, Martin and Tom)


Time for a yummy lunch (while concrete is setting)


Richard creating the detail


Elisabeth and Matt finishing the final layer


Richard with oxides to create colour (and below)




Matt throwing on sand


Afternoon tea time with Martin's yummy scones,homemade raspberry jam & cream,mmmm...
while the colour and cement cures


The finished product! Fondly nicknamed Myrtle...as in Myrtle the Turtle


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Anonymous said...

I wish my kids can experience something like that. In Silay where my husband is from, there's a community bakery with a large wood oven. For a small fee, the residents can have the bakery roast food in the oven. My mom-in-law would have huge slabs of pork roasted in there and they'd taste like mini lechons :-) Pizza Conveyor Ovens