Fireplace FavoriteMattone Barile
Fire brick • Barrel • Serves 1–8
The compact wood fired oven kit with a 17" ceiling. Perfect for small patios and for building an outdoor fireplace with a pizza oven.
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Build a real wood fired brick pizza oven in your own backyard. Our patented forms hold the shape, our FREE plans walk you through every step, and the fire brick comes from your local masonry supply. No masonry experience needed.
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Four Brick Oven Kits, One Result
A real wood fired pizza oven in your backyard, built with your own two hands for a fraction of what a pre-built oven costs. Every kit comes with the patented form and the FREE pizza oven plans.
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Best SellerMattone Barile Grande
Fire brick • Barrel • Serves 1–20
Our best-selling pizza oven kit. A 24" x 41.5" firebrick cooking surface bakes three 10" pizzas at once.
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Lowest CostCortile Barile
Castable refractory • Barrel • Serves 1–14
The lowest-cost way to build a real wood fired oven. Pack castable refractory into five foam molds. No bricklaying.
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Neapolitan Dome28" Mattone Cupola
Castable refractory • Dome • Serves 1–20
The classic Neapolitan pizza oven, cast over a one-piece dome form. It bakes pizzas faster than its size suggests.
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Brick oven basics
What Is a Brick Oven?
A brick oven is a wood fired oven built from fire brick or castable refractory, then insulated so it soaks up the fire's heat and holds it for hours. The hot firebrick cooking surface crisps pizza in 60 to 90 seconds. Long after the flames die down, that stored heat keeps baking bread, roasts and casseroles.
Barrel or dome?
Barrel ovens (our Barile series) give you a big, rectangular cooking surface for crowds. A dome (the 28" Cupola) is the classic Neapolitan shape. Compare the ovens
Wood fired, not gas
Real firewood is what makes a wood fired brick oven special: high heat and real smoky flavor. Which wood to burn
Pizza is just the start
Bread, roasts, whole turkeys and wood-fired BBQ all come out of a brick oven, long after the pizza is done.
How it works
From Kit to First Fire in Four Steps
No kiln, no crane, no masonry crew. The patented form takes care of the hard part, the shape, and leaves the satisfying part to you. The FREE plans show you exactly how to build a brick pizza oven, step by step.
- 1
Build the base
Cinder block and concrete from your local supply. The FREE plans include the base drawings and a complete materials list.
- 2
Set the patented form
The foam form or molds ship to your door. They line up every brick, or hold every pour, so your oven comes out right the first time.
- 3
Build the oven
Lay fire brick with refractory mortar over the form, or pack castable refractory over the molds and let it cure.
- 4
Insulate, finish, fire it up
Wrap it in ceramic fiber blanket, add the chimney, then finish it in stucco, stone, tile or brick. Cure it, fire it, make pizza.
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Real Backyard Brick Ovens
Every outdoor brick oven here started with a BrickWood kit and our plans. Then each family finished it their own way.
Customer reviews
What BrickWood Builders Say
★★★★★
Best DIY wood oven kit!
We ordered the Mattone Barile kit, and it was so easy to build and looked amazing once completed. Neighbors, family and friends have asked us to help them build their own.
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Look no further!
Highly recommended for the do-it-yourselfer rather than paying $3,500 or more to have someone else build it. … The experience of building this with my dad was priceless!
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Fantastic!
I hosted a pizza party and cooked 12 pies for friends and family, then loaded baked beans in and closed it up. That night, temperatures fell to single digits, and when I woke up, the oven was still 180 degrees!
Cooking with fire
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Weekend build
Fire Pit Grill Kit
A cinder block fire pit that doubles as a wood fired BBQ grill. Stack the block, drop in the kit, light the fire.
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A Brick Oven Does It All
A wood fired brick oven sears steaks on the hot firebrick, slow-cooks wood-fired BBQ, roasts a whole turkey and bakes bread, then makes the best pizza you've ever had. One backyard project, a lifetime of cooking with fire.
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Guides for Every Step of Your Build
How to build a brick pizza oven
The FREE step-by-step plans and materials lists.
How hard is it to build a pizza oven?An honest answer for first-time builders.
Pizza oven materials listEvery brick, bag and tool, and where to save.
Pizza oven chimney guideDampers, draft and smoke, explained.
How to cure a new pizza ovenYour first fires, step by step.
Fire brick near meFind masonry and refractory suppliers by ZIP code.
Questions
Brick Oven FAQ
How much does it cost to build a brick pizza oven?
You buy the patented form or a kit package from BrickWood, and the heavy materials (fire brick, block, mortar or castable) from your local masonry supply, so you never pay to ship pallets of brick. The FREE plans include a complete materials list, so you can price your whole oven locally before you buy anything.
How long does a brick oven last?
A well-built brick oven can last for decades. The two things that shorten its life are water and rushing the first fires, so cure it slowly with small fires and finish it with stucco, stone or tile (or build it under a roof) to keep rain out of the insulation.
What can you cook in a brick oven besides pizza?
Almost anything you'd cook in a kitchen oven or on a grill. Sear steaks on the hot firebrick, roast chicken and vegetables, bake bread as the fire burns down, and slow-cook beans, stews and roasts in the stored heat.
Do I need masonry experience to build a brick oven?
No. Our patented forms hold the shape for you, so you only lay fire brick with mortar, or pack castable refractory, over a guide. Thousands of first-time builders have finished a BrickWood oven using our FREE step-by-step plans.
Where do BrickWood kits ship?
Kits ship FREE by FedEx Ground to the contiguous United States. Canadian customers can pick up from a package-receiving business on the U.S. side of the border, and we ship to freight forwarders for Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Caribbean. International shipping details
