Ceramic Tile Pizza Oven

I found my quarry tiles at home depot and they were 6 inches square and slightly under 1 2 inch thick.

Ceramic tile pizza oven.

In your pizza making arsenal you list baking stones which cost about 50. These ceramic and glass tiles present a very convenient medium to finish the dome of the oven since their flexibility allows them to repeat the shape of the dome. Covering your wood pizza oven with tiles. However it is easiest to buy several six inch tiles and fit them in your oven.

Quarry tiles is another name for them and they look like terra cotta pots. Go to your local floor covering store and buy a large 12 by 12 inch ceramic floor tile. Stone is a pure ceramic product made of clays fired at over 2000 degrees fahrenheit. A glaze on the tile can contain lead and when subjected to the heat of the oven this can transfer to the food you re cooking possibly into the air.

Not the ideal size but i couldn t beat the price i paid just 67 cents a piece for the tiles. If you do not have a heating unit on the floor of your oven you can lay the tiles on the oven floor and leave them there all the time. Six tiles weight 7 pounds 13 ounces and made a 12x18 inch landing zone for pizza and bread. The tiles have to be unglazed it is absolutely essential that they are unglazed.

Some people use just one of the big tiles which works well if you are going to make small pizzas. That way you have a lot of versatility. In this series of pictures you can see what regular wall tiles from home depot can do to your wood fired oven. I bought 12 since they were so cheap.

Now you can duplicate crispy pizzeria quality pizza crust and all in a standard kitchen oven. A couple of years ago i wrote a page explaining how glass ceramic and stone tiles can be used for mosaic fireplace surrounds and how the tiles should be mounted with thinset mortar or white pva polyvinyl acetate adhesives such as weldbond but we are talking about the surrounds not inside the firebox. Mosaic is pretty but takes prohibitively long. Also ideal for re crisping last night s pizza baking frozen pizza slices or getting a crispy crust on focaccia or bread.