Ceramic Tile Pizza Oven

Covering your wood pizza oven with tiles.

Ceramic tile pizza oven.

Mosaic fireplace and oven surrounds. 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. Not the ideal size but i couldn t beat the price i paid just 67 cents a piece for the tiles. The tiles have to be unglazed it is absolutely essential that they are unglazed.

Go to your local floor covering store and buy a large 12 by 12 inch ceramic floor tile. I found my quarry tiles at home depot and they were 6 inches square and slightly under 1 2 inch thick. However it is easiest to buy several six inch tiles and fit them in your oven. Some people use just one of the big tiles which works well if you are going to make small pizzas.

Stone is a pure ceramic product made of clays fired at over 2000 degrees fahrenheit. Six tiles weight 7 pounds 13 ounces and made a 12x18 inch landing zone for pizza and bread. 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.

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. Unicook heavy duty ceramic pizza grilling stone baking stone pizza pan perfect for oven bbq and grill thermal shock resistant 15x12 inch rectangular 6 6lbs 4 5 out of 5 stars 1 992 34 99 34. In your pizza making arsenal you list baking stones which cost about 50. Mosaic is pretty but takes prohibitively long.

Now you can duplicate crispy pizzeria quality pizza crust and all in a standard kitchen oven. That way you have a lot of versatility. Also ideal for re crisping last night s pizza baking frozen pizza slices or getting a crispy crust on focaccia or bread. I bought 12 since they were so cheap.