Anyone ever built a fire pit that was also an oven or pizza oven? Im thinking of making a fire pit with a shell on the back for the pizza oven and a metal plate in-between for the heat to hit the pizza. But the pizza ovens are usually with the fire right next to the pizza so I'm not sure if it's going to be worse having the fire under the pizza. I might make some gaps for the smoke to come up into it to get that smokey flavour.
Pizza is about cooking pretty much as hot and fast as you can accomplish with conventional fueled fire. Most ovens in the US seem to cap about 550 but you're better off running your brick oven up to 700-900 for pizza. Maybe vent the smoke inlets. I'd experiment with a small oven first. Keep in mind to use the right bricks and cement where needed.
Here's a plan to compare with what you're thinking.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/669716958/pizza-ovens-are-expensive-build-a-pizza?gpla=1&gao=1&
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If the fire was coming from under the brick, how thin would the brick need to be to give the pizza that type of heat. Or can it all be air convection from an inlet by the fire?
That's not how a wood pizza oven works. You really obviously have never made pizza before. The wood goes in the back, not beneath, or you won't get the right flavor / scorches. Also, wood fired pizza cooks very quickly, and you have to sit there turning it with the paddle or it will burn. It's not something where you stick the pizza in and then fifteen minutes later you pull it out. It's very skill intensive.
Those are two different structures. Any compromise will maximize the downside of either.
Make a nice firepit and cook on a pizza stone. Realistically you're not gonna make that many pizzas there Tony Sbarro.
Checked but my girlfriend makes 2-3 pizzas a week. She is literally obsessed with pizza.
Once you start making your own pizza, your own dough with fresh ingredients, it's hard to go back. It's not difficult either.
For the fire pit you’ll want an open thing, so that the air can move freely, burns slowly, and gives off heat to the people around it
For the pizza oven you want to force the air through the charcoal/wood and up to the chimney so that you don’t get soot on your pizza, it burns as hot as possible, and it traps heat inside to cook the pizza
Combining the two seems counter intuitive to me. But maybe you can make something like a Swedish grill where you build a small pizza oven that you can hang over the fire with chains
Probably not without some very complex stone tube engineering genius. There's a reason everyone does it like the pic you posted, and it's what's already been said. Even with a gas fire pit, you'd still have two structures/appliances for many of the same reasons.
There you go. You have two levels. The pit and the oven. The oven has a hole in the back to allow the smoke to come through and give flavour (it goes out of a chimney vent at the top in the front) and the fire below goes through a thin layer of some brick or material that the pizzas sit on to give heat.
Now you can sit around the fire while your pizzas cook.
Or this but with a pizza oven hood
Pizza ovens are for businesses trying to put out 40 pizzas per hour. A 480F oven is perfectly capable of cooking pizza without meme devices.
This - just turn your kitchen oven up to max and let it get all the way hot. It won't do a pizza in 2, but it'll do it in 5 minutes, and you didn't have to build a pizza oven you're only ever bothered to fire up twice a year.
It's just for fun, and even doing it twice a year for the novelty while sitting outside drinking is worth the novelty.
>Doesn't have hobbies
I've been brainstorming on something similar, the best idea I've come up with is a fire place/pizza oven combo. It's not open but you can enjoy the fire and still see it/sit by it but all the function goes towards heating the pizza in the chamber above. You can also just use it with the chamber closed/empty if you want fire time with no pizza. I haven't made it yet but from what I've researched it should work
Neat. Let me know if you get any designs or any other thoughts. I want this cross-functionality too. I think
something like this with a hood is probably the route I'll go just so that it's less visually intrusive when you're trying to enjoy a night around the fire