After being a big fan of the wood-burning oven chef on YouTube for some time and having wanted to build my own pizza oven I carried out a lot of research over the years.
There are several types of ovens that you can make, from using foundry bricks which are silica based , That contain and hold heat building the oven arch takes some skill with brick work and can prove difficult.
, That contain and hold heat building the oven arch takes some skill with brick work and can prove difficult.
I was really impressed with ovens from the Australian brick oven company however costs were prohibitive, their ovens come in at around about 3 to 5000 pounds.
After further research of companies offering Kits in the UK that would not only work properly but hold heat correctly.
VITCAS based in England had a superb website and they have been numerous people documenting their builds , On speaking to them direct they were very helpful and were able to provide details of their products.
Their product is a foundry cement-based Archway and Dome including a base all of which are designed to hold heat and distributed evenly if insulated correctly.
The decision was quickly made that VITCAS Was the product and company for me.
I purchased the 1 m x 1.2m oven kit adding a 50 mm insulated base, and insulated blanket to allow me to fully insulate the dome and Archway, and their fire cement including fire silicone and high temperature tile adhesive.
The kit came within a week was on one pallet and everything was packaged up neatly I had no issues with transportation with the pallet being brought on a courier and pallet dropped to my canopy area so from door to door with a super service from VITCAS.
My next blog addition will go through the installation and set up of VITCAS Wood burning bread and pizza oven.
