Italian Oven Resources
FIREWOOD
See our Firewood section to learn more about the best wood for your Italian Oven.
OUTDOOR KITCHEN DESIGN
Plan your outdoor kitchen lowes.com how to library
BUILDING SUPPLIES FOR YOUR WOOD FIRED OVEN
VERMICULITE
You may find vermiculite at Home Depot, at a pool supply center, or at agriculture supply stores. Buy the 8 cu ft bag, it will cost you cost less than the small bags you find at nursery stores.
Custom Wine Cellar — Custom make a wine cellar to your likings with Grotto Cellars.
ITALIAN FOOD
Culinary School — CookStreet.com offers a wide variety of culinary courses for everyone from the aspiring professional chef, to the backyard grill master.
Flour — Stafford County Flour Mills (hudsoncream.com) has produced excellent flour since 1882. Very similar to the European triple O flour and great for pizza and bread baking.
ITALIAN CULTURE
This website features a lot of information about pizza and pizza making you may find useful:
home.comcast.net/~cmptj/pizza/links.htm
BRICK OVEN
Franks construction manual for a wood-burning pizza oven - Building stone oven - Pizza Recipes - Bread baking with sourdoughWoodfiredpizza.org
How to build a brick oven, with many photos. Although the process of building a brick oven is different than building a modular oven, the part about creating a slab and structure around the oven remains the same.
