Ceramic Tile Pizza Oven

However it is easiest to buy several six inch tiles and fit them in your oven.

Ceramic tile pizza oven.

Mosaic fireplace and oven surrounds. That way you have a lot of versatility. Some people use just one of the big tiles which works well if you are going to make small pizzas. I found my quarry tiles at home depot and they were 6 inches square and slightly under 1 2 inch thick.

Quarry tiles is another name for them and they look like terra cotta pots. 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. 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. Stone is a pure ceramic product made of clays fired at over 2000 degrees fahrenheit.

Also ideal for re crisping last night s pizza baking frozen pizza slices or getting a crispy crust on focaccia or bread. In your pizza making arsenal you list baking stones which cost about 50. Go to your local floor covering store and buy a large 12 by 12 inch ceramic floor tile. The tiles have to be unglazed it is absolutely essential that they are unglazed.

I bought 12 since they were so cheap. Now you can duplicate crispy pizzeria quality pizza crust and all in a standard kitchen oven. 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. In this series of pictures you can see what regular wall tiles from home depot can do to your wood fired oven.

Discover what you can do with a brick oven by using regular ceramic wall tiles. Six tiles weight 7 pounds 13 ounces and made a 12x18 inch landing zone for pizza and bread. Not the ideal size but i couldn t beat the price i paid just 67 cents a piece for the tiles. Mosaic is pretty but takes prohibitively long.