Pizza Oven

Early this year, Jason decided he really wanted a pizza oven. After a not so successful attempt at building one inside our living room fireplace, he decided to make an earthen oven in the back yard. He dug down really far in the garden to get the clay, and made this little oven (below). This one was only a practice one, so that he could build a much larger one in a permanent place.
Jason had talked to his brother, Freddy, about his ideas of building pizza ovens. Freddy liked the idea and ran with it. He built a pizza oven on a trailer that could be taken to events. His first event was very successful. Jason decided to make one on a trailer as well, and sell pizzas with Freddy at the Renaissance fair here in Cedar.

Below are pictures of Jason and his friend, Joe, Building the oven. They built this one out of refractory cement so that it would be stronger than the earthen oven.

The pizza oven works great. They heat it up with a wood fire, and keep it at about 900 degrees. The pizzas cook in 30-60 seconds. The pizza's they sold were Neapolitan style, very thin crust with minimum toppings.

Here's Freddy, Jason, and Joe at the fair (below). Yes, Jason and Joe are in women's blouses. It was a requirement of the Renaissance fair (not wearing women's blouses, but to dress renaissance), and this was the closest we could come. They looked more like cross dressers than renaissance men, but I guess it worked; they didn't shut us down.

The fair lasted 4 days. It was a lot of work, but it went really well. Their booth was one of, if not the most popular booth out of the food vendors. We turned out a decent profit too, when all was said and done.

Jason's now looking into possibilities of catering or just vending from a certain spot in town. The regulations and licences are absurd; no wonder everyone doesn't own their own business. So, if we can jump through all their hoops and make our little pizza cart legal, you may be able to find him selling pizzas somewhere here in town.