Ceramic Tile Pizza Oven

Discover what you can do with a brick oven by using regular ceramic wall tiles.

Ceramic tile pizza oven.

Covering your wood pizza oven with tiles. Go to your local floor covering store and buy a large 12 by 12 inch ceramic floor tile. However it is easiest to buy several six inch tiles and fit them in your 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.

Quarry tiles is another name for them and they look like terra cotta pots. Also ideal for re crisping last night s pizza baking frozen pizza slices or getting a crispy crust on focaccia or bread. 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. 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.

A glaze on the tile can contain lead and when subjected to the heat of the oven this can transfer to the food you re cooking possibly into the air. Now you can duplicate crispy pizzeria quality pizza crust and all in a standard kitchen oven. Mosaic fireplace and oven surrounds. In your pizza making arsenal you list baking stones which cost about 50.

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. That way you have a lot of versatility. Stone is a pure ceramic product made of clays fired at over 2000 degrees fahrenheit.

Mosaic is pretty but takes prohibitively long. I bought 12 since they were so cheap. 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. The tiles have to be unglazed it is absolutely essential that they are unglazed.