Pizza Oven Plans
Slide 4
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| Here it is at home, ready to
be put into place. It survived the bisque firing fantastically.
A couple of pieces cracked off, but nothing that can't be put into place
as it is assembled. The important part, the cap of the dome, came
out all in one piece with no cracks whatsoever.
Note the clay bags under the dome. This remaining 100 pounds will be added to the outside of the dome, to give it more thermal mass. |
The tongue-in-groove method
worked well. I'm happy the top came out so well. You can see
the squaring off of the dome, including the circular platter I used on
the back of it.
The lighter colored cap is from the kiln temperature variance, I believe. It's all from the same clay. But the very ceiling of the kiln was hotter than the rest, and so reached a higher cone than the walls of the dome. But that's a good thing, since the cap is going to be subjected to the highest temperatures during pizza cooking. |
