Hi Nick and Sam here and we are Pizza Oven Supplies. A few years ago, and like many of you, I wanted to build an outdoor wood burning oven for myself.

The idea of having an oven that works perfect just by throwing wood in was something I had discovered over 20 years ago while working in Rhodes, Greece.

The Old Medieval Town, which had been influenced by the Italians amongst others, had a few wood fired bread ovens dotted around. These were used to make bread and pastries in the morning, then loaded up with various meat and vegetable to slow through the afternoon, ready to serve in the evening.  

The oven was then re-loaded up with wood until it reached the perfect pizza baking temperature of 750F (400°C). Tourists and locals alike would be attracted to the unmistakeable smell of wild oregano, garlic and pizza bread dough being crisped by searing heat.

Even though the smoke was clear at this temperature, it still imparted its unique flavour. The seed was set and lay dormant for 20 years

Was I going to fill the dome with sand and dig it out when set, use thin strips of wood and set fire or use a trammel radius tool and build it from refractory bricks. Do I buy a precast modular oven? If so, why do the prices vary so much?

Then a gentleman came into the reclamation yard that I managed and all my questions were answered. Having been a businessman in the pottery industry himself, the gentleman had so much knowledge and contacts it was unbelievable. I followed everything up and found I had all that hard to find knowledge and materials right on my doorstep.

Stoke on Trent had been building bottle kilns for years and a wood burning oven is a type of bottle kiln. 

I experimented with different kinds of mixes and after a while I got everything right. I then decided to build a mould and that gave me the idea. “What about all the other people like me that would like to know how to build a wood fired oven?”

I began to develop this website and people started to get in touch wanting me to build a wood fired oven for them. I packed my job in and off I went up and down the country building wood fired ovens for people from all walks of life.

As the enquiries increased then started to turn into orders I needed help to keep in touch with everyone. Who could be better qualified that my partner Sam, after all she had been listening to me ramble on about pizza ovens for years.

Having built many of these pizza ovens myself, I can assure you I have taken all the really hard guess work out of your oven build. Not only that, you can be assured that you are getting all those expensive refractory materials just right.