How to Build a Brick Pizza Oven

May 2024 · 1 minute read

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Introduction

If you love backyard cooking and entertaining, a brick pizza oven might be just what you need.

Granted, this isn’t a project for someone with no DIY experience. But if you have a little skill, an attention to detail and a helper, you can build this brick backyard pizza oven for a fraction of what it would cost to have a professional build it for you. After all, you’re not building a house.

And it’s more than just a pizza oven. Once you’ve mastered controlling the temperature, you can bake anything you’d normally make in a conventional oven. Here’s everything you need to know about outdoor pizza oven kits.

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Meet the Expert

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Dick DeGrood, president of Twin City Brick & Stone, has been in the masonry supply industry for more than 46 years. His company supplies masonry material for projects in large commercial properties, apartment buildings, retail stores and luxury homes, as well as for small DIY jobs like wood-fired outdoor ovens. DeGrood built himself a wood-fired oven more than 20 years ago that continues to function as well as the day it was built.

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