Clay Tiles For Pizza Oven

It s a very coarsely grogged clay which boasts a very low shrinkage making it highly resistant to warping cracking and thermal shock.

Clay tiles for pizza oven.

Quarry tiles is another name for them and they look like terra cotta pots. Be sure to measure the inside of your oven carefully. I used exactly what you are suggesting in my oven two layers of unglazed tiles with a thin layer of mortar between. Honey can do old stone oven s 4448 set of 6 baking tiles natural.

Honey can do 4448 old stone oven baking tiles set of 6 4 75h x 6 5w. It is absolutely essential that they are unglazed. 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. So let s start with the material for the oven floor.

Some people use just one of the big tiles which works well if you are going to make small pizzas. How to build a clay pizza oven oven floor. We intend to make proper pizzas here not the thick soggy things that those multinationals dish up after all. Made of clays fired at over 2000 degrees.

I had four lying around and it just seemed the obvious choice. Contact superior clay for your next home project. Mine were terracotta which seems to be an excellent surface as it s very porous sucks water up like a sponge and is happy with high temps. Continuing on my theme of simple and cheap i was originally going to use paving slabs.

Made in the usa. Duplicates crispy pizzeria quality pizza crust and all in a standard home kitchen oven. Whether you need a custom chimney pot for your historic home an authentic brick masonry oven to make wood fired bread and pizza at home or terra cotta clay wine storage tiles for your favorite vintage collection we have what you need. The tiles have to be unglazed.

The third and final option is to purchase a premixed clay which has been prepared especially for the construction of pizza and tandoori ovens such as our pizza oven mix. A porous clay based material like terracotta is ideal as it temporarily absorbs moisture from the pizza base which helps to give you a crispy pizza base. The clay will be quite hard to the touch but will turn soft again in rain so backyard ovens should have a shed roof or some other way to protect it from the elements. The quarry tile needs to fit in your oven so that there is at least an inch or so space all the way around it.

Unglazed quarry tiles hey i realise this is quite late but just thought i d reply in case you did postpone your build to the spring.