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11-15-2021, 02:36 AM   #16
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Oh - was Domino's closed, then ?

Seriously, an amazing and well-documented project - I too am drooling !
Thank you!

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Brilliant!! That is a major engineering effort. Only a Pentax enthusiast would have the dedication to build that. Other camera brand users would just send out for takeaway.
Hahaha. Yes, I suspect you're right!
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Last year, after covid lockdown, we started down this pizza oven journey.
Excellent photo series Mark!

I remember you taking this up and seeing a few shots along the way - nice to see the whole process together. Also you started this after COVID lockdown?!?! It seems like it was quite a while ago you were starting it... oh wait... this COVID thing has been a while...

I'll have to post some shots of our pseudo pizza oven, and meals that come from it. A big masonry stove with an oven in the middle of the house, which is our primary means of heating and cooking in the winter.
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Excellent photo series Mark!
What Bert said!
Are you sure you don't need a blinking red light atop that chimney?

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You'll have to pop over some time!
I'd love to invite myself over. In normal times, I could be there in about 30 hours.

The construction project looks fantastic, and the food mouth watering! Love lamb shanks. In fact, one of my best lamb-shank dinners was at a brew bar on the Wellington waterfront.


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Excellent photo series Mark!

I remember you taking this up and seeing a few shots along the way - nice to see the whole process together. Also you started this after COVID lockdown?!?! It seems like it was quite a while ago you were starting it... oh wait... this COVID thing has been a while...

I'll have to post some shots of our pseudo pizza oven, and meals that come from it. A big masonry stove with an oven in the middle of the house, which is our primary means of heating and cooking in the winter.
Thank you Robert. Yes, actually started prior to the first lock-down but then could not, of course, get any materials so got going in earnest in May 2020. Also a weekend project mainly, so slow going. Worked on the brickwork base through June and July and started the oven itself in August. Dome was completed by end of September and we had our first pizzas in October 2020. Door made end of October so we were cooking all sorts of stuff from almost exactly a year ago.

This winter was very wet so we had the oven covered from April through to now with very few attempts at cooking anything until last month.

Yes, please post your masonry stove photos. Would love to see it.
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What Bert said!
Are you sure you don't need a blinking red light atop that chimney?
Hahaha! Luckily the house roof is higher Bob!

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I'd love to invite myself over. In normal times, I could be there in about 30 hours.

The construction project looks fantastic, and the food mouth watering! Love lamb shanks. In fact, one of my best lamb-shank dinners was at a brew bar on the Wellington waterfront.


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Thank you Craig! If you ever make it over this way I'm sure we can fire it up.
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Mark great project and nice done
I think time
To change job and open “Pentax Hot pizza and more”
Final product look great
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You must of been a baker , a builder and a mason in past lives.

Quite a project, and a very successful one at that !
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The oven floor is 42" diameter (1050mm) so we can comfortably cook up to three 12" (300mm) pizzas at one time. The most we've done is about 38 pizzas in one evening.
I'm usually pretty full after 1/2 a pizza.... All that cycling must make a man damn hungry...!! :-)
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Mark great project and nice done
I think time
To change job and open “Pentax Hot pizza and more”
Final product look great
Thank you!
My wife says "no"!
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You must of been a baker , a builder and a mason in past lives.

Quite a project, and a very successful one at that !
Thanks Les! Interestingly, until the start of this project, I've never laid a brick in my life. But I've watched it plenty. So, I figured: "How hard can it be?"
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I'm usually pretty full after 1/2 a pizza.... All that cycling must make a man damn hungry...!! :-)
Indeed. That evening we had our local cycling club round for pizzas. I did not eat much myself - I was too busy being the pizzaiolo!
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Indeed. That evening we had our local cycling club round for pizzas. I did not eat much myself - I was too busy being the pizzaiolo!
and the rest of the club being pizzaiholics !!
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