Alright, listen up, you young’uns! Gonna tell ya how this old gal built herself a brick pizza oven. Yeah, a pizza oven! Make them pizzas right out in the yard. Ain’t that somethin’? This whole brick pizza oven diy thing, it ain’t as hard as it looks. Just gotta get your hands dirty, that’s all.
First off, you gotta get some bricks. Lots of ’em. Them red ones, you know? And some of that cement stuff to hold ’em together. We call it mortar. Got mine from that fella down at the hardware store. Said he had the best prices in town. We’ll see about that. Anyway, this outdoor brick pizza oven, it needs a good strong bottom. That is base, you know, like you build a house.
So, you lay down some bricks for the bottom. Make it nice and flat. Then you start building up the walls. Round and round, like a big ol’ beehive. Gotta leave a hole in the front, though, for the pizza to go in. We used some wood pieces to make it round and perfect, then you just take wood out when it’s dry. You know, them fancy folks, they use somethin’ called a “form” to make that arch. I just used some old wood planks. Worked just fine. This brick pizza oven is gonna be the talk of the town, I tell ya!
Now, building this thing, it took a few days. My back was killin’ me. But I kept at it. Slow and steady, like they say. Each brick, gotta put that mortar on it, then stick it on the next one. Tap, tap, tap. Make sure it’s good and tight. You want a good diy pizza oven, you gotta put in the work. Ain’t no shortcuts to a good pizza, or a good oven to cook it in!
Gotta have a little door, too. To keep the heat in. I just used some scrap metal I found. Anything works, long as it covers the hole. This whole outdoor brick pizza thing, it’s just common sense. Don’t need no fancy tools or nothin’. Just good old-fashioned hard work. That’s the secret ingredient.
And that dome, the top part. That was the trickiest. Gotta make it curve just right, so the heat stays in. I just eyeballed it. Took my time. Added a brick here, a brick there. Slowly but surely, it started to take shape. This brick pizza oven diy project, it’s like a puzzle. Gotta find the right pieces to fit.
- Get them bricks.
- Get that cement stuff, mortar.
- Make a good strong bottom.
- Build them walls up round.
- Leave a hole for the pizza.
- Make a little door.
- Make the dome curvy.
Once it was all built, had to let it dry. Took a few days. Then, we built a fire inside. Small one at first. Gotta let that oven get used to the heat. Then, bigger and bigger fires. Until it was hot enough to cook a pizza. This diy pizza oven, it’s a beauty, I tell ya. Cooks them pizzas in no time. When you hear that fire cracklin’, you know, there is a delicious pizza is comin’
The first pizza we made, it was a little burnt on the edges. But it was still good. We learned as we went. Now, we can make pizzas like them fancy Italian restaurants. All thanks to my outdoor brick pizza oven. The kids, grandkids, they all come to help me make pizza, and eat of course. When they are eatin’, they just can not stop sayin’ how delicious it is. That makes me happy.
People always say “Oh, building a brick pizza oven, it will cost you a lot”. You know what? It is not that expensive. I mean, you can make it fancy and it will cost you more. But for me, it is simple. Simple is good enough. You can make it expensive, or you can make it cheap, like mine. No big deal. It is about that you wanna build it or not.
So, if you’re thinkin’ about building a brick pizza oven diy, I say go for it. It ain’t easy, but it’s worth it. You’ll have the best pizzas in town. And the satisfaction of knowing you built it yourself. That is somethin’ special. You can do it, I know you can. If I can, you sure can. Now I think, it is time for me to have some rest, bye bye.
