Your Brick Oven: Building it and baking in it Paperback – 31 July 2005

No nonsense guide to building a wood oven. I used this during the build of my oven, it was a great reference. There is a lot of bad advice on building wood ovens this book take all the nonsense out of building an oven. I do and would recommend this book to anyone thinking of building their own oven.

OK: I've read the other reviews and, more or less, they all are correct. I used this book as a basic guide and took over a year of scanning the Internet for more info. I found loads of encouraging stories, a ton of bad advise, and scores of photos of over-the-top, ostentatious, impractical, and expensive brick ovens. In the end I came back to this book and used it as a reference throughout the construction of my oven. Yes, it is true that to get the most out of the book you need to be pretty good at DIY projects, but in my opinion you should never attempt something like building a brick oven unless you ARE pretty good...and it is not a step by step, extremely detailed book of plans. However, I found that quite useful as it meant I could adapt his principles and suggestions to build MY oven, instead of building HIS oven. The value of the book is in it's simplicity and brevity: it makes you think and workout some of the details yourself. In the end you will understand a lot more about the principles and fundamentals of wood fired ovens than if you had just followed some set of tab-A-into-slot-B instructions.I found the book very, very useful, full of good tips, useful and uncluttered drawings and illustrations, written with wit, humor and obvious experience. It is NOT the bible of brick oven construction, but it IS one of the gospels.

I have gad a quick scan through and is a useful guide. There is sufficient information to enable the planning, sourcing materials and constructing it.

I think this is a basic book, it gives you a good idea of the way ahead but misses allot of detail. If you are a handy diy'er or have enough cash to pay someone to do a brick oven then i guess what more do you need. But i personally would have liked more options on oven styles and building.Happy with my purchase has given me enough information to make the decision that i'm going ahead with the project.

Speedy delivery. Item was packaged well and description was accurate. Good value for money. Overall happy customer. A star amazon seller.

Soft backed book and not very thick but hopefully will be enough info to build an oven. It's a gift so unsure yet how good it is.

great book, easy to read and understand. Will be building an oven this summer, so excited, fresh bread and pizza...yum

EXPECTED MORE INFO ABOUT BUILDING THE OVENS. SUPPOSE IT'S MORE COFFEE TABLE READING THAT INSTRUCTIONAL

Is it Small? Yes. Is it short? Yes. Does it give you needs to read more? OWWWW YES! But once there is no more, you can do it over, an over again.I am on my 6th time! Enjoy!

Fast delivery ! Very good price !

My husband used this book to build a pizza/bread oven in our back yard. It gave good step-by-step instructions with solid information and pictures. Now, when we have visitors, we all work together to make the best tasting pizza you can get.

I’ve been planning on building a brick pizza oven for a little over a year. Most of the information that I have obtained to date has been online. However, I wanted a book for my nightstand to read up on the topic and hopefully reinforce some concepts of building a proper brick oven.I realized that this book was not the answer as soon as I read the author stating to not waste money on fire brick. This is probably the worst advice for building a brick oven. The bricks and insulation are the most important part of retaining heat. The heat retained in the bricks cooks your pizza. Additionally, the diagrams and techniques described are extremely vague and they are roughly half of the book. The other half of the book contains mostly unappetizing recipes which are clearly a ploy to fill pages. The pictures in the book are dull black and white and don’t show any detail. Overall, I couldn’t be more disappointed. I wish I could say that there is some useful information in this book, but there just isn’t.If you want to learn how to NOT build a brick oven or just want to build one halfazzed, then you should buy this book. Otherwise, if you are the type to take pride in your work and build a brick oven right the first time, don’t waste your money. I’d return this waste of paper if I wasn’t being charged $6 to return it. Maybe, I will use it to light the fires for my brick oven this summer.

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed. Time to get to work.