welcome to the breadoven (a.k.a. brickoven, pizzaoven, woodfired oven, masonry oven)

Welcome to the bread oven. Here you'll find information about brick oven projects and the art of baking bread, pizza, nan etc.

This site is written in Dutch. I am not in the position to translate the whole site but if you're not Dutch than THIS link will help you to uncipher some of the Dutch into English. Have fun!

Bread ovens, pizza ovens, brick ovens, masonry ovens .. a woodfired oven has many names. Fortunately it all comes down to one thing: an oven made of clay or stone and fired with wood. The cooking chamber of such an oven usually is the place where the oven is fired. So, after firing push the embers to the side (for pizza) or take them out (for bread) and bake!!

When I started this I found there are not many traditional woodfired breadovens in Holland. In Belgium however there still are many bread ovens (or bake ovens as they call them). Likewise, Belgium has a high reputation for sourdough bread. It's time to do some traditional baking in a traditional oven in Holland. And ofcourse don't forget true Italian pizza; what's more fun than having a pizza party in the backyard?

So what are you waiting for .. let's get started! Do you own a woodfired oven or are you in the process of building one? Let me know and send me your pictures!