Constructing a Pizza Oven Books
The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens
by Alan Scott, Daniel Wind, and Daniel Wing
Amazon Customer Reviews
“A joy for the serious bread baker amateur, or professional”
“Best book on natural leavens I have read”
Highly recommended book on masonry ovens and natural leavens which teaches you the basics of baking bread. The bread builders begins with an introduction called looking for Real Bread, Finding Masonry Ovens.
The book goes on to talk about the choice between supermarket bread and naturally fermented hearth bread and why anyone would go to the trouble of building a wood fired brick oven and bake in it.
Among the material covered the book discusses, bread grains and flours, baking, ovens and bread, preparing to build a masonry oven, materials and tools required, construction and oven management.
Building a Wood-fired Oven for Bread and Pizza
by Tom Jaine
Amazon Customer Reviews
“More about the history rather than how to build”
“An excellent step by step history and guide for non-builders”
Tom Jaine’s Building a wood-fired oven for bread and pizza is a past history and guide book that has a lot of detail about the ovens that where used in large houses in the past. The book describes the stages of construction of a brick oven for the garden with detailed plans and illustrations.
The book describes how to fire and run these ovens and gives recipes for basic breads and pizzas. There is also a section on dedicated to oven restoration and bringing new life in to some of the thousands of ovens which still exist in farmhouses across the UK.
Your Brick Oven: Building it and Baking in it
by Maggie Beer and Russell Jeavons
Amazon Customer Reviews
“Handy reference guide”
“Very scant book”
Russell Jeavons’ Your Brick Oven discusses the various steps involved in constructing a brick oven, firing and cooking with it. The introduction talks about the evolution and cultural roots of cooking before moving on to the stages of building an oven.
The various stages of building your oven are covered including the base, the dome, the flue the insulation cavity and firing your brick oven. Part two of the book covers cooking in your oven and preparing your oven for baking bread.
