Put Your Backyard to Good Use By Building a Wood-Fire Oven

Posted by Living Earth Structure on November 28th, 2018

Traditional wood-fired pizzas are an ultimate treat! But, isn’t it a bit unfair when you have to wait in a line at the pizza joint every time the craving for a wood-fired pizza hits you? Imagine if you could prepare it in the comfort of your home. In addition to saving much of your money, you would be able to enjoy the pizza whenever the craving hits you. That way, you could even throw a pizza party at your place by inviting over your closed ones and friends.

By building a beautiful wood fired-pizza oven in your backyard, you will be able to bake more than just pizza. Since it hold heat for a long period of time, you could also bake fresh bread or roast your meats the day after you fire it up for pizza. A backyard wood-fired oven offer a number of cooking advantages.

Apart from the 30 minutes that these ovens take to preheat, they take just about 10 minutes to cook the pizza. If you want to bake multiple pizzas, then there is another benefit. Since the heat is stored in the oven walls after a fire is lit and spreads evenly throughout the oven, the pizza not only bakes super quickly, but also tastes much better as opposed to one cooked in an electric oven. With wood fired ovens, you would be able to save on your gas and electric costs. Further, it is a more eco-friendly method of cooking as compared to conventional and gas ovens. Other than pizzas, your backyard oven will also allow you to cook breads, meets, vegetables, etc.

One of the best natural building workshops which has been a leader in the natural building movement for over 20 years constructs high quality living earth structures, such as cob benches, wood fired ovens, and adobe dome saunas encouraging community involvement through educational workshops and gatherings around the finished project, promoting a healthy, simple and creative lifestyle harmonious with the natural flow of creation.

It usually builds adobe or cob wood-fired ovens, cob benches, cob play structures, cob saunas or tiny cob homes. These types of functional earth art structures are beautiful, durable and help bud community in the process of creating them. You can put your backyard to good use by building a wood-fire oven in it. The cob ovens that they build can be custom sculpted to meet your specific artistic flare, either with an elaborate design or plain and simple which has its appeal as well. 

Author’s Bio- The author is an avid blogger and this article talks about building beautiful wood fired ovens.