Hey Ben, congratulations on all your instructional videos, I think I watched the lot . I've been a Bricklayer for many many years, and have built lots of domestic fire places, but never a Pizza Oven and found all your videos very helpful and informative. I do hope your company goes well for you, and thank you for your professionalism and enthusiasm.

@TheFireBrickCo

11 ай бұрын

Thanks heaps Tommy, I really appreciate it!

This is so good, my beer consumption has spiked

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha

"Or twelve inches if you are in the USA or Libia" Way funny, I am an Englishman living in Hawaii and I always rib my US friends about being the last country to go metric! Way behind the times! Thank you, I received my thermometer/thermowell set today, excellent quality. Aloha, David Hume.

@TheFireBrickCo

Жыл бұрын

🤣 glad you enjoyed that!

Thank you Ben. Your videos are wonderful and so very useful ! Bravo !

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

Aw thanks Lorenzo!

Great videos on the brick oven build. I built my one several years ago following the US company Forno Brovo's design. I did do the compound cuts on the bricks to minimize the inverted "V" mortar joints on the higher coursed. The Brick oven is an awesome cooking tool.

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

Good job!

Absolutely brilliant video. Thank you very much.

@TheFireBrickCo

2 жыл бұрын

Awwww shucks - Thanks Gebrano!

Excellent information Ben. Cant wait to start and finish my D95 when in arrives 18th Jan. Will send in photos of my stand and polished concrete top when done.

@TheFireBrickCo

2 жыл бұрын

Yay!! Looking forward to it!

@Mi-ck

2 жыл бұрын

Hi John, Just finished my D95 yesterday and started the curing fires last night. Really keen to start cooking. How’d you go with yours? Got it done yet?

Great product and support. Proud to be Aussie. Just a question about the curing fires. Can you use heat beads as the fuel Adrian

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

Yes you can! But they're not going to give off quite as much heat as the small fire, and if you leave them on the floor they may go out fairly quickly as the floor will still be cold, and damp.

Great video demonstration thank you for sharing👍👍👍 what material is the dome made of?

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

That particular oven is built in SK32 firebrick

Great video and information... I recently acquired a precast oven that had been in place for years but never used by the previous owner. Never even had a fire in it! I'm wondering if I need to go through a full curing-fires process? Or could I start at some mid-point?

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

If you go through the whole process at least you won't have to worry - I would start at the beginning to be safe, why risk serious damage to save a couple of days?

How on earth did you get the smooth finish on perlite render. What mix and products are best. Much appreciate video and looking forward to curing my oven soon.

@TheFireBrickCo

4 жыл бұрын

No worries - check out the video we did for applying the Perlite Render, that should help answer your question

Thanks for great video...Im going through this now. Very useful....I found the first firing I only got 250 degC...Now Im getting why...Ill take it slow and cure the oven

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

Good work!

@Mi-ck

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFireBrickCo I only got to just over 100 degrees Celsius on the first fire. Used the 200 x 200 method and kept it that size for four hours. Does this sound like it was hot enough?

I wonder if using the snake method with charcoal briquettes might work for your first couple small curing fires. The whole purpose of the snake is to provide low consistent heat

@TheFireBrickCo

Жыл бұрын

It might work but I think you might find that the damp firebrick floor might limit the ability of the crachoal to combust. Perhaps if you set the snake onto a layer of aluminium foil?

Great video I am on day 2 currently, is there a temp guide to follow to ensure your not getting things too hot? For day 3 & 4 with the 10x10 does 300-350 degrees F sound good? How about 400-450 for day 5&6 on the 12x12? Then last day 7 full send on the set and forget?

@TheFireBrickCo

Жыл бұрын

Good questions Kameron - we don't have preset temps to reach as it's just too tricky to manage the fire that way when you're doing curing. Don't worry, I've been watching your progress on Insta and you're killing it!

What an informative video. Do you need to re-cure the oven if you haven’t use it for over a year? Thank you

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

If the oven is holding water then we do recommend going back to do some curing, but starting at Day 3

Awesome video, let's say I got a kit that was a complete shell. I just needed to place the oven and cement her in, the oven an fore bricks have cured for about a month before we placed the oven. It has stood with the sealed cement for about a week. When can I start to burn her in? Or could i perhaps use an electric bared heater to take abit of the moister out for two days. Then proceed with the curing fires...

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Craig, I would still recommend this method as there may be water trapped in the materials - and you'll have had to soak the fire bricks in water in order to lay them. You are better off taking it nice and slowly and drying the oven out carefully so that you can enjoy it for many years to come rather than rushing at the final hurdle

Great video. Are you completing the curing fires before applying the roll on render?

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

Great video. Awesome information.

@TheFireBrickCo

4 жыл бұрын

Thankyou Pamela!

Just a thought... Could I use an electric heater, like a greenhouse heater, or possibly something more powerful? It would be really useful to know what sort of internal temperatures are required for the curing process to work. That way perhaps I could monitor it via the door mounted temperature guage?

@TheFireBrickCo

3 жыл бұрын

You could but you would rapidly reach temperatures that your heater wouldn't function at if it was placed inside the oven. We don't specify temperatures because the oven door thermometer only reads accurately when the door is all the way into the oven, which puts out the fire. That's very useful when you're doing a roast, but not so great when you're trying to burn curing fires!

Hi Ben, What would you do if you havent used your pizza oven for a few months? Should you do a small fire every few months ? and how long for? 3 hours?

@TheFireBrickCo

Жыл бұрын

Hi Patrick! If you haven't used the oven for a while and it isn't covered to protect it from the rain, you'd be wise to assume it has absorbed some water. Go back to day three of curing and slowly dry the oven out again, doing the four major firings to get it fully dry. Then your best bet is to find a way to KEEP it dry, even if you're not using it for a long while. We are working on some cover solutions for you!

@PatrickGuerrisi

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFireBrickCo Thanks. It's under cover but no walls some rain gets on it during windy rain

Hi just wondering what your thoughts are on the use of fire lighters is getting my fire going? I am going to start using your fort method so will see how that goes but just wanted to ask.

@TheFireBrickCo

2 жыл бұрын

Go for it - I like the natural type rather than the kerosene ones but it'll all get burnt up before you get any food in there regardless.

Thanks for this Ben, I cracked my first oven all over the shop and just sorting my new one out properly. Can you speed Days 1 and 2 up? For example if did a fire first thing in the morning for 3 hours, shut the door, and did another in the evening?

@tomphillips6867

10 ай бұрын

Should have Waited until the end haha!

@TheFireBrickCo

10 ай бұрын

Hahaha yeah it's the first question most people think of!

Hello! I've finished the whole 7 day curing, and the oven exterior/render still gets a little hot (around 40 centigrade) after a couple hours of use. Is this normal?

@TheFireBrickCo

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, you'll get to about 50C on the outside of the dome if you fire it for several hours, even after the oven is totally dry. Make sure you cover the oven between curing fires to keep any rain from being reabsorbed into the perlite render.

Is it normal for there to be a big cloud of smoke hovering over the day 1 of curing fire 🔥? (Smoke does slowly make its way to the flue and gets sucked up the chimney) also I don't know if it's because it's a small fire but it seems to burn very slowly and almost like going out, so I'm having to blow air onto it... 😕

@TheFireBrickCo

Жыл бұрын

Yep totally normal, it's a very small fire in a fairly cold, wet oven so it won't burn particularly well to begin with. Once you get past those smaller fires you will find it's much less smoky

Do the precast ovens need to be cured under the same process?

@TheFireBrickCo

Жыл бұрын

They do, it's a conservative approach but its definitely worth doing

Hi, sorry if its not the right place to ask such questions, but is it normal that the surface of the perlite render heats up a little bit while i burn the curing fires? I mean its quite warm to touch..

@TheFireBrickCo

2 жыл бұрын

That's totally normal - there will be steam trying to escape from the oven through the render which heats it right up. You'll find patches that are quite hot and others that are much cooler, which is just the steam finding the path of least resistance through the perlite render. This will go away once you've done the full curing regime.

@kamileeTum

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFireBrickCo hello again, thanks for reply. I've finished the curing process and as You said the surface is nice and cool again:). Thanks for Your help

Could I do 2 fires in the one day ,one in the morning and one in the evening

@TheFireBrickCo

Жыл бұрын

It's not something that we recommend - your oven will be there for decades, if you rush the curing process you risk getting much more significant cracking than you would otherwise. Just take your time and enjoy the process 😊

@nick50

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFireBrickCo thanks

Just wonder if a gas burner would work for curring

@TheFireBrickCo

2 жыл бұрын

We don't recommend them as you really want to have a safety shutoff system connected to the burner just in case the flame goes out (which most of them don't have)

I’ve read it somewhere that the curing process must start as soon as the render has dried? I have just finished rendering and won’t get back to it for another 5 days to start curing, is that a problem!

@TheFireBrickCo

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure where you read that, but it certainly wasn't in our instructions! You definitely have to leave the render for at least two days for it to set, but you could leave it for months if you had to, it won't hurt