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| Building a Wood-Fired Oven for Bread and Pizza | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Jaine
Publisher: Prospect Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $11.97
You Save: $7.98 (40%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 145502
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 113
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 0.2
ISBN: 090732570X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780907325703
ASIN: 090732570X
Publication Date: January 1996
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Condition: Brand New. Expected US delivery in 7-10 business days
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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 oven, and some recipes for good measure.
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 Agood one for the 'dustbin February 4, 2007
5 out of 34 found this review helpful
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.
not the best August 2, 2005
14 out of 23 found this review helpful
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.
 Not so helpful March 13, 2004
36 out of 40 found this review helpful
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.
 a good supplement to The Bread Builders July 5, 1999
107 out of 107 found this review helpful
If you're interested in building a wood-fired oven for baking, this is a good supplement to Alan Scott's essential "The Bread Builders". Provides very interesting historical background, amusing anecdotes and a set of plans which are aimed a bit more squarely at the amateur builder than Alan's plans. I'm building an oven now using plans interpolated between the two. If you're going to tackle a project like this, get a good book on masonry techniques too, or better yet, a video. (Amazon, care to provide some suggestions?)
Comprehensive history of wood fired ovens. October 27, 1998
41 out of 46 found this review helpful
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.
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