Since we moved to Sydney from the UK, we spend most of the time at home, from August to May, outside. Either in or by the pool, on the deck or socialising and eating on the balcony. For us that is part of what living in Australia is all about, being outside and making the most of the climate and our beautiful surroundings.
We have decided to make more of this by building a Pizza oven in our garden. Eventually it will be pride of place in an outside kitchen that will sit just next to our deck. I am not sure how long it will take to finish the entire kitchen but I aim to get the Pizza oven ready for the Australian summer in December.
Why a Pizza oven? Well, I have distinct childhood memories from my Uncle Jean, in Paris. He was the ultimate handyman and had personally built two houses before he built a bread oven in his garden in suburban Paris. I remember vividly the ceremony of firing up the bread oven, cooking Pizzas and then huge batches of bread which he then froze for the month ahead.
The first part of building the Pizza oven was to get the ground ready (see the photo below). From here I need to build the shuttering, the reinforcement and then pour the concrete slab for the tiled area in front of the kitchen. Then the foundations for the oven and then the oven itself.
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