I've met hundreds of people who want a brick oven. Not all of them will get one. Actually, the ratio is about one out of one-thousand (of the people who wish).
The biggest obstacle is... money.
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| TBO custom brick oven |
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| This does work |
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| TBO portable |
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| cast refractory |
By defining what you want from a wood-fired oven, the odds dramatically increase that you will get one and that it will satisfy your needs.
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| cob oven construction |
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| clay oven |
Since wood-fired ovens span every culture and historic period, there are also a wide range of materials, methods, and costs for building one.
Compare it to this: Would I like a fifty-foot schooner to sail around
the world? Or would a twenty-five foot cutter sloop that I can afford
now get me out on the salty sea?
Listed here are the choices in ascending order of cost for wood-fired ovens that you may build or own tomorrow (metaphorically):
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| owner built |
- Cob oven (see former post)
- Stone and mud oven
- Red brick oven
- Owner built fire brick oven
- Cast-refractory oven (see former post)
- Custom built Pompeii style brick oven (what I build)
These ovens range in cost from $100 to $ky's the limit. Safe to say that the Navajos didn't spend a dime on their ovens.
My first oven was built with salvage fire bricks from a pottery kiln.
I didn't want to be the other 999 people who just wished.
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