A Small Wood Oven for $2k

Primavera60 Assembled 24" Wood Pizza Oven :: Residential Pizza Ovens :: Forno Bravo Store

10 Reasons to Buy a Primavera Beehive Oven

Forno Bravo is the company in California that I bought my wood-burning oven from (a 39" Artigiano oven).

They are now offering a nice-looking, smaller, inexpensive (relatively) wood-burning model that might be a good alternative for folks.

This oven is complete and ready to use for just under $2,000. With my oven, I had to pay for contractors to pour a foundation, build a hearth, and other stonework -- well over the cost of the oven itself.

Now you couldn't do a huge party with this oven (one pizza at a time), but for a family or small gathering, this might be worth looking into.

Plus, the people at Forno Bravo are outstanding and they make customer service a real priority.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Her Pizza Oven

Gwyneth Paltrow Just Says 'No' to Personal Chefs - Gwyneth Paltrow : People.com:

No pictures of her with the oven, unfortunately:

"'Breads and pizzas is what I'm cooking and we all love it,' she said. 'We have a wood burning pizza oven in our garden. Right now the weather is nice in London, so I'm using that oven a lot. You can cook anything in there. It's amazing.'"

A Great Looking Oven

Outdoor Kitchens and Baths Design

Very nice:

A New Vendor of Ovens

Burlington firm partners to manufacture outdoor pizza ovens - Small Business Times

"Wood-fired pizza ovens are one the hottest trends we're seeing in outdoor living for 2009," said Joe Raboine, president of Harmony Outdoor Living.

So we have a new vendor of pre-fab ovens. I hope the trend spreads!

Building an Oven for Your Daughter's Wedding Reception

Everyone's dream - Dishing - Boston.com

Quite a story from a Boston Globe blog about a man who built a "Roman oven" in his backyard so he could use it for her wedding reception. There are some great pictures on the site too.

My colleague Sue DiManno told me about an unusual wedding reception her sister, Amy Chessia, threw in their back yard in Scituate for her daughter, Morgan, in late August. Amy's partner, Eric Stamp, built this oven from a book he got for Christmas.

A Roman oven, apparently, has no chimney or venting out in front of it. Simple design, but I'm sure it works well.