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He looks so happy and proud

https://lemmy.world/post/43959089

Mar 7 at 2:33pmWeb
Show threadFatVeganMar 7
Everyone i know who built a pizza oven used it twice and then never again
Show threadhemkoMar 7
It’s the journey, not the destination
Show threadStupidmanagerMar 7

I bought an indoor unit, used it nearly 3x a month for 4 people over 10 years. It was fun as we all made our own and then I coked them, At least until my kids grew up and moved out. I would have loved an outdoor unit, wood fired had that amazing smoked taste to it and I’ve gone to parties at a friends who had one he put together “and used twice”. Effort for 90 seconds of cooking was just not worth it, but when cooking for 15 people he loved when I’d come over and light it up. It really was the journey for him.

Now I’m in Spain and single, I’d do it for me but the effort of planning just 1 pizza never appeals to me more than just getting out and seeing people at my local pizza place.

Show threadPencilnoobMar 7
I built one with just clay and straw, used it every weekend for years, it cracked, rebuilt it, used for another two years, cracked again, rebuilt it a third time. I’ve moved to a new house and already miss it. Even if I’m not making pizza, it’s great just for an outdoor fire while sitting in the hammock. It’s contained and uses like 1/4 of the wood while not being as dangerous. A great way to spend a weekend afternoon is to fire it up and loaf on the hammock. I’d also use it to bake bread, make peach cobblers in cast iron, and smoke bacon. Great times. Maybe I could get the parts to rebuild it this weekend…
Show threadZombiFrancisMar 7
Show threadPencilnoobMar 7
Absolutely true, but also it gets below freezing here and rebuilding it only take a few hours so it’s nbd. I’d rather just rebuild it every few years vs stress out super hard a fancy one cracks
Show threadRekorseMar 7
What’s the basics of using clay and straw to make stuff like that?
Show threadPencilnoobMar 7

themudhome.com/…/how-to-make-a-cob-oven-and-avoid…

theyearofmud.com/2009/…/outdoor-cob-pizza-oven/

There’s a book too, if you want more detail, that’s what I used when I first made mine like 12 years ago

permies.com/t/223763/Cob-Oven-bible-Build-Earth

How to Make a Cob Oven (and Avoid the Common Pitfalls)

Courtesy of Helen Atkinson in Baltimore   Now for something a little different. Something a little fun. Not that Helen’s cob oven is particularly ‘little’. Au contraire, this wonderful project...

THE MUD HOME
Show threadRekorseMar 8
Awesome, thanks for the advice, I saved your post for reference.
Show threadSoupbreakerMar 8
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing it! Been a while since I considered making a backyard pizza oven, and now I’m down that rabbit hole again.
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamMar 8
hot smoke or cold smoke bacon? i need like 90 bucks worth of parts to turn my smoker into a cold smoker and i’ve been putting off bacon until then
Show threadPencilnoobMar 8
I don’t remember, I’d just put some raw bacon in there on a rack and eat when it was cooked and smokey
Show threadv_krishnaMar 7
Long ago I had a girlfriend who had a neighbor who built one in his backyard and would have at least monthly (weather permitting) block parties where he’d provide the dough and the oven and everybody else would bring sauces, cheeses, toppings, etc. Great way to bring people together and freaking delicious.
Show threadAxExRxMar 7
20 years ago my friend asked me to help him build. It sat in his yard and we fired it up probably once a month th 7 months of the year for around 5 years. Then we pulled it out of the ground, cut the base short, and mounted it onto a trailer. It went to another friend’s house, where it sat for a couple years and cracked. Maybe got used 2x. ~5 years ago, we got it back in good shape, now with a coat of cement over the bricks, and used it for another friends wedding, ended up selling it to another friend who had a catering buisness, and now it does 3 days a week at the brewery
Show threadcaboose2006Mar 8
My wife and I are very frugal. And we love to cook. And we love pizza. We make pretty good pizza with just our pizza stone and our shitty oven. I can tell you right now, if we had a pizza oven, we’d be using it twice a week, because that’s about how often we have pizza. I’ve developed a habit of making dough when I’ve had a stressful day. It’s healthier than drinking. Just knead that dough.
Show threadSCmSTRMar 8

It’s because making actual great pizza is super fucking hard and 99% of RESTAURANTS can’t even do it properly, let alone great. Making great pizza is an artform that requires a shit ton of control and balance over like a hundred variables.

Most people just want cheap and easy pizza at home, not a multi-generational, obsessive hobby that requires deep scientific knowledge and data tracking that’s basically a universally devalued trade.

Show threadexasperationMar 8

People need to get off the idea that only doing things perfectly is worth doing.

No, making even mediocre pizza is still worth doing, because even mediocre pizza with an oblong shape and lumpy topping distribution can be pretty great when it’s still hot and crispy and you’re having fun making it.

I have a pizza oven. I make a lot of pizza at home, and I eat a lot of pizza out at restaurants. I enjoy it even when I know it’s not perfect. Because pizza is fun and even bad pizza is good in its own way.

Show threadgreedytacothiefMar 8
Making pizza is easy, making good dough takes a lifetime to learn
Show threadSkaveRatMar 8

making good dough takes a couple tries.

Making the Perfect Dough is a lifetime task

Show threadyabaiMar 8
Not with Granny Boyle’s starter dough
Show threadeestileibMar 8
Nahhh. It’s easier than making a baguette.
Show threadSatansMaggotyCumFartMar 7
That tarp would be melted if that thing was to temperature.
Show threadSuccessful_Try543Mar 7
The chimey is hot, but the outside of the oven is usually well insulated with e.g. rockwool.
Show threadSatansMaggotyCumFartMar 7
No they’re hot enough to melt tarps.
Show threadSuccessful_Try543Mar 7
It’s 40 - 80 °C depending on how well it’s inulated.
Show threadSatansMaggotyCumFartMar 7
Not in my experience.
Show threadAxExRxMar 7

I helped build a similar one one that traveled around my friend group for a bit and now does 3 days a week at the local brewery. Ours stays under 150°F… After a 10 hour day of continuous use in 90°temps.

the exterior is always comfortable to the touch- some times i climb up on top of it and sit and watch the crowd/ music/ call out orders for the guys if its busy.

They’re usually that layer of bricks, a layer of insulation, then like 6-8" of cement. The whole point is to keep the heat reflecting on the inside.

If the one you have access to is reaching more than 200°F, it means the interior has cracked somewhere, and it shouldn’t be used until repaired. Your risking the insulation catching, or burned through it already, contaminating the pizzas, and explosive Spaulding of the concrete (moisture boiling off, shooting shards of concrete into the food within it.)

Show threadSharkticonMar 8
Yeah that doesn’t sound right man, if that much heat is escaping then there’s something wrong.
Show threadSatansMaggotyCumFartMar 8
Nah it’s just getting hot because it’s like 800 degrees man.
Show threadSharkticonMar 8
Even at 1000 degrees a properly insulated pizza oven shouldn’t be getting much north of 140 degrees.
Show threadSatansMaggotyCumFartMar 8
But you just said it was a thousand degrees.
Show threadSharkticonMar 8
Oh honey.
Show threadTattorackMar 7
He looks exactly like the kinda guy I would expect to make a lot of pizza.
Show threadinariMar 8
You can almost hear the accent through the picture
Show threadNottaLottaOcelotMar 7
Sounds like Emily doesn’t like waking up to fresh baked pizza for lunch from her loving father in a house large enough to have a yard you can build a pizza oven in. Poor Emily, she must live a really difficult life.
Show threadYankee_Self_LoaderMar 7
This is basically what I say to my wife when I get an idea like this and the result of said idea will only benefit her. Her response is almost always something to the effect of “well ok hang on”. Lady, I know you well enough to know the things you like. Let me help you
Show threadPronellMar 7

My wife has learned by now that I follow through.

She won a gift certificate to a kitchen store and I asked for, and reluctantly got, a cast iron pan.

Dozens of delicious pizzas (and other stuff) later she just buys me kitchen stuff she thinks I can use.

Show threadMinnesotaGoddamMar 8
I feel you. We have fantastic cookware. We almost never use it. Why? I don’t know how many years ago, I told my wife i wanted to buy a cast iron pan so sorry i know the budget’s tight but i’m spending some date money. three date nights later, she told me we needed another pan.
Show threadPronellMar 8

We now have two cast iron skillets and a cast iron bread pan, which was used on the last loaf I posted. (It has a top so you get the full extra crust)

I love cooking for her.

Show threadMinnesotaGoddamMar 8
we’ve got the 14 and the 12 skillets, a 6 quart dutch oven and a large ramekin (we call it the artichoke dish dip because that is the only thing i make in it)
Show threadsome_kind_of_guyMar 8
I sometimes wonder how many children Kenji has been indirectly responsible for creating. Must be in the thousands by now.
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamMar 8
ha! i didn’t realize what i was implying. yeah, no kids.
Show threadkurwaMar 7
Her steak too juicy and lobster too buttery
Show threadSkeezixMar 7
Her boyfriend dick too big
Show threadDragonTypeWyvernMar 7
I mean that’s an actual problem to have
Show threadSkeezixMar 7
You mean that?
Show threadInsolentjellyfishMar 8
Howdy, In case you are asking out of genuine curiosity, yes! That can be a real problem for two reasons that immediately come to mind. Firstly, the average vagina is only as deep as the average penis, so a penis that is too long can cause pain durring thrusting for both parties. This is less of an issue with anuses since they do not strictly have an end. There is still such a thing as too deep though, medically. Girth can similarly be an issue since vaginas and anuses are stretchy, but only to a point. Secondly, humans do not have a bone in the penis to help it stay up. They rely almost exclusively on blood pressure. If the penis is too big, it can be very difficult to get an erection, once again making it a problem for all involved sexual parties. Cheers!
Show threadSculptor9157Mar 8
And sitting on an unfamiliar toilet can be fraught with peril as you may be graced with a kiss from Poseidon.
Show threadanonklayMar 8
yeah you can hit her Cervix. And thats not a good feeling for her.
Show threadppueMar 7
What makes you think, she is complaining?
Show threadNottaLottaOcelotMar 7
When she called it a “god damn pizza oven” it came off as snarky to me
Show threadSharkticonMar 8
There’s a lot of ways to say God damn and you’ve picked the most uncharitable one of them.
Show threadNottaLottaOcelotMar 8
That’s fair. I’m trying to read it as god damn awesome, and I can see how it could possibly be read that way too
Show threadmrbnMar 7
Hey Emily, can you introduce me to you dad so he and I can become friends?
Show threadCaptain AggravatedMar 7
Boys will be boys.
Show threadHubiMar 7
Why does this photo look like it was taken in 2010?
Show threadPalmTreeIsBestTreeMar 7
Looks like a picture I would take on my old 3GS.
Show threadJesusaurusMar 7
Because it was from 2016
Show threadsome_kind_of_guyMar 8
It’s definitely got that faded Instagram filter look
Show threadSaharaMaleikuhmMar 7
Let him bake