A Portable Oven in Ohio

Grilling pizza or having it baked for you in a portable oven are new ways to enjoy a favorite food -

Nice article from the Cleveland paper...

Paluckas, a baker by trade, makes his version in a wood-fired oven he built himself and rolls to parties around town. Terry Frick, the pizza bagel lady at the West Side Market, sells a portable kit with a precooked crust that can go home, to a party or to a grill at a public park. Hudson cooking instructor Catherine St. John teaches her students how to avoid a hot summer kitchen and slap raw dough on the grill in the back yard.

The results can be very, very good.

The article gives some details about his dough making and how he partnered with someone to make this into a real business. There are also some tips on grilling pizza for those without a wood burning oven.

Chris Bianco Recipes and Methods

Pizzeria Bianco chef's tips and recipes in 'Martha Stewart Living'

Very exciting to see this online and in the magazine.

Here's the link to recipes (including making dough and pizza recipes) at Martha Stewart online.

I'll dig into it more and maybe blog about more highlights and specific links later.

Article from Little Rock Paper

Creating a home pizza oven is well worth it

Not the most detailed article, but "full details" are coming in a longer article tomorrow?

Short of remodeling your kitchen or constructing a wood-fired brick oven in your backyard (that’s assuming you have a backyard and the necessary permits), great homemade pizza is just not going to happen at home.

At least that’s the theory. But it turns out that great pizza is possible at home with some firebricks and a few ceramic tiles or a pizza stone.

Pizza Oven Causes Restaurant Fire

Pizza Oven Blamed For Barre Blaze - News Story - WPTZ Plattsburgh

Gotta be careful with a wood oven inside an old historic building:

"All Fired Up" went up in smoke around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.The Barre City Fire Chief Peter John said it started in one of the restaurant's wood-fired brick pizza ovens.

Another Portable Oven - in CA

Portable pizza a hit at parties - Rocklin

An oven in California, created by an inventive man who was laid off by a tech company:

Rocklin resident Scott Thorson and his family launched the business in October of last year and have been making pies for people at parties, sporting events and business socials ever since.

His 3,900-pound trailer holds the wood-fired oven, coolers full of toppings and a portable working space, and can get just about anywhere – hitched to his car.

The pizzas are made from scratch on-site – from rolling the dough, loading up the toppings, baking the pie and serving it – cooked for approximately two minutes in the oven, heated to between 750 and 900 degrees.

A Portable Oven in Dallas!

Dallas - City of Ate - Running On Pizza

Congrats to Jay Jerrier, who helped me with advice on getting my home pizza oven going, on his new portable oven.

The direct website is here. Be sure to check out the linked Facebook page with some awesome pictures.

He can take this mobile oven anywhere in the DFW area to make true VPN pizzas for your events or parties.

Jay is also a partner in Southlake's Campania Pizza.

Alan Scott, 72, Artisan of the Brick Oven, Dies

Alan Scott, 72, Artisan of the Brick Oven, Dies - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com:

Alan Scott, whose blacksmith’s skill in using radiant heat led to a revival of the ancient craft of building brick ovens, allowing bakers to turn out bread with luxuriously moist interiors and crisp crusts, died Jan. 26 in Tasmania, Australia. He was 72.

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Several thousand amateur bread bakers and thin-crust pizza makers now have backyard brick ovens, many with cathedral-like arches, that were built either by Mr. Scott, with Mr. Scott or according to specifications he laid out with his protégé Daniel Wing in their 1999 book, “The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens” (Chelsea Green Publishing).

Pizza Oven Fire

Durant Daily Democrat - Your source for local news, classifieds, business listings and events in Durant, Oklahoma. - Durant

Firefighters were dispatched to a pool house Monday after smoke was observed coming from the structure.

When firefighters arrived at 1:46 p.m. to the home at 225 Red Bud Lane, they saw a small amount of smoke coming from the pool house.

No flames were visible, so firefighters used a thermal imaging camera and determined the fire was between brick and plywood walls. The homeowner told firefighters he cooked pizza in a brick oven the evening before.

Due to the chimney’s close proximity to the wood framing, the heat caused the wood to smolder and then ignite hours later, according to the fire department. There was no damage.

A similar thing happened with my oven in early 2007. The builders framed it in wood, the oven and the chimney. They insisted, over my protests, that this was OK. It turned out not to be. As the wood dried with each firing of my oven, it eventually caught fire on the 5th fire or so. The fire burned inside the encased stone, as you can see below:

The builders were true to their word and re-built it, framing it in metal this time and there have been no problems since.

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Fired Up the Oven Yesterday!

Fired up the oven yesterday, to practice before a super bowl party next week...

Another Trailer Oven

Pizza From Scratch - First, Bricks and a Trailer - NYTimes.com

I'm going to have to get into this business someday... here's another portable oven, this time NYC.

The pizza trailer is not without precedent. Two years ago Joel Baecker, a veteran of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and his wife, Naomi Crawford, began hauling a wood-fired oven to farmers’ markets in the Bay Area and Sonoma County.

Farther north, another couple, Marshall and Errin Byrd Jett, operate a fleet of mobile ovens for Veraci Pizza, which is based in Seattle. The company’s dome-shaped devices, emblazoned with diamond-shaped tiles and given affectionate nicknames like Fat Boy and Queen Mary, prove that ugliness is no prerequisite for portable ovens.

Very cool!