What's a reasonable lifespan for a perlite oven?

@@aw8388 lots of variables that you don't find in brick ovens. You don't learn to manage your fire and just let it go off into 8 900° it's susceptible to cracking. And once a perlite oven is cracked its junk in my opinion. Every time you put fire to a cracked oven it expands with heat. And always will. Not talking you out of it. Build it thick. Manage your fire. These ovens require patients. Start a nicecfire and let the oven absorb the heat 20 minutes maybe. Let the stored heat bake your pizza with a small fire to add the crispness. You looking for a quick pizza call dominoes. You have to be patient. I'll try finding a few pics

@@urbancowboyinct2161 thank you. I'm willing to learn and do it right....but I only want to do it once, lol. Fire brick is pretty spendy, but it might be a better long term investment. What's your favorite brick oven video? I bake bread pretty regularly, and I think it might be a nice garden focal point.

@@aw8388 I'll send you a quick Brick oven build my son and I did. are you on tik toc?

Or fbook?

Do you best :) man

Agreed! Especially the concrete used.

Может цементно-песчаная смесь?

Like Yours?

vous savez les matérielles utiliser ?

Jajajaja espera sentado que jamás recibirás esa información

He used GORKAL 40 refractory cement, made in Poland. GORKAL stat sheet says a low cement calcium aluminate product. Good to 1300 degrees C and good insulative qualities.

Was this achieved in this design?

@@extra7219 thats what I wanna know LOL

@@extra7219 yes, with the yoga ball achieved that.

refractory cement and perlite, it has the heat resistance and insulation, that being said it won't last too long regardless of what you do

No. My Kamado Joe doesn’t have layers of insulation. There are ovens made of clay that are 1,000 years old still existing. This isn’t perlite. It’s refractory cement and fire clay. It’s for cooking a pizza, not for blowing glass. Some of the comments on this video are laughable.

That stuff is like $250 PER BAG...

Not that I have any experience, BUT concrete will spall over time... I don't think this would last long term

Como todo lo secreto, es todo mentira no crean, se la pasan mintiendo como siempre aprendan los latinos que no escondemos nada enseñamos todo y después nos roban las ideas y proyectos

Would it make a difference if refactory cement is used instead of normal cement?

No one cares what you think

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Just make sure you insulate it and add firebricks to the base

@@muzzykolip A layer of rockwool or ceramic wool between the two coats of refractory mortar, yes. The base could perhaps stay like that, or make it thicker. Depends on how "portable" you'd like it to be. Add some caster wheels to a solid wood base table and you can roll that muthaf to your local park if you will.

@@muzzykolip if the base is made of the same material as fire brick why add firebrick to the base?

For builds like this they typially use 5:1 mix of, Vermiculite/Perlite to Portlant Cemend. People also add Sand to the mix to give it some thermal mass too. Adding Hydrated lime to it can also help it from a masons standpoint. I personally would also add castable refactory cement to it to give it better thermal strength. People will add Red clay to the mix for heat strength as a cheaper alternative, the guy in the video added it to his mix.

It’s refractory cement and fire clay. He has 9 bags of fire clay and 2 bags of refractory cement in the video. So his mix is probably 4 fire clay to 1 refractory cement.

Umm. Yes, easy to follow, measurement are personal, so choose a size and build. If you can not adjust the measurement, you prob, cannot build it anyway. Can yer?

Same thing I was thinking. It's pretty much useless.

This looks like a vermiculite mix. It would have been handy to get the mix ratios.

Looks like a cement & clay mix

@@tonysicily2687 what’s the mix of vermiculite to concrete?

Góral is resistant to high temperatures, it is used in ovens. This is not ordinary cement.

I looked at the package shown (Górkal cement). I think these guys are Polish. Basically is a refractory cement which can stand temperatures of up to 1300°C. Probably same mix used to make fire bricks.

Я думал это глина

Amigo, concreto refractario (el que se utiliza para chimeneas y hornos que aguantan hasta unos 1100C o 1200C). Madera contrachapada para hacer el molde. Y agua. Yo le hubiese puesto una capa adicional de lana mineral de roca entre las dos manos de concreto para ayudar a retener mas calor y aislar. Saludos.

Well weathered and stunning I am guessing. If someone as skilled as this makes a puzza oven, i am guessing they will look after it

It's very easy to clean though, as you can remove the base and access all sides.

@@Pazaluz ahh, that’s a great design

40 sand 30 cement 30 water

And perlite.

Bonjour pour le mélange cedt bien de l'argile ciment

what happens if you don't have an oven door?

@@davidvalens3337 .... It isn't the fire that cooks the pizza or bread. The wood fire heats up the bricks. Then the wood ash is brushed out, or sometimes to one side, and the pizza is cooked by the retained heat in the brick. A door keeps out the wind and helps the oven keep an even temperature throughout the cooking process. A no - door oven would probably be fine for one pizza, but for 2 or 3 you would notice it

@@frankhoffman3566 why are you supposed to put glass and salt in the bottom? What does the glass and salt do?

@@davidvalens3337 --- I have honestly never heard of that. Mine has a fire brick base with a clay mortar. The rest is a dense clay red brick and refractory mortar. Still good after a decade and a half. I did a lot of research before I started and never came across anything on glass and salt.

@@frankhoffman3566 if you look at other KZfaq videos you see people using glass and salt