- ISBN13: 9780907325703
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The ultimate project for the DIY cook and baker: an oven in your own back yard. Pizza cooks faster and is more tender, bread crusts as it’s never crusted before. The anticipation prompted by the smoking chimney is indescribable, the results without peer. This little book tells how to build a outdoor brick oven from scratch, with working drawings; and how to restore an existing oven if your house is so lucky to possess one. There is guidance in firing and running the… More >>
Building a Wood-Fired Oven for Bread and Pizza
May 2nd, 2010 at 03:09
I didn’t realize this softback book was from the other side of the pond. I don’t have much use for the metric system and am real tired of the damn Euros and Canucks trying to force the US to comply to their useless way of measurement. Secondly, this isn’t new material, but rather old rehash of rather mundane common knowledge…I donated the book to a middle school library…which is the level of understanding that’s needed to get through this book. Amazon please don’t recommend books that don’t meet the same level or better than those I have previously purchased from you. At least Barnes and Noble can accomplish this simple feat.
Rating: 1 / 5
May 2nd, 2010 at 05:25
I thought it was the wors exampe of a book on the subject
I would not recommend it to any one thinking of building one
There are other books far better
Rating: 1 / 5
May 2nd, 2010 at 05:45
you don’t really understand how big this thing is until you see the finished product. Which by the way — there are no finsihed pictures. I actually saw the finished oven on ebay. When it towers over the 6′ privacy fence – you began to rethink making it.
Rating: 1 / 5
May 2nd, 2010 at 06:30
The book gives one set of plans without much discussion on how to modify them. I was hoping for more theory and explaination about size, height, chimney placement etc.
In British fashion, the author uses more words than necessary to explain himself (think Dickens).
Overall, not a complete waste of time, but less helpful than the title would lead you to believe.
Rating: 3 / 5
May 2nd, 2010 at 06:54
Although the book is a bit wordy, it gives the reader comprehensive history, information and instructions on how to build a wood-fired oven. The author is English and tends to refer primarily on British ovens and on baking bread. I bought the book to build an Italian style pizza oven, however the book mentions pizza only a few times. The plans on how to build a wood-fired oven are helpful and I am glad that such a book exists.
Rating: 3 / 5