dry fit pizza oven with clay bricks

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I have wanted to build a backyard pizza/bread oven for ages. Except, these can be really expensive if you buy a nice one, or pretty involved hearth oven. Then once it’s built, these are really big and non portable.

Then I found this how to video: Brick Pizza Oven Video & Plans GF TV - GardenFork.TV

Long story short, use and inflammable base, 96 clay bricks stacked up, a couple of angle irons to stack the roof bricks, and you’re ready to go with something that can be assembled/dis-assembled in less than half an hour. Stack it up on a couple of cinder blocks to be the right height. For about $75, I can have a pizza oven. And one that is portable or at least I can take down if my wife complains.

I was thinking of trying it today but it’s been pouring all day. Maybe tomorrow.

Has anyone else built one of these? Anyone on the boards have an outdoor pizza oven/bread oven they use? Any thoughts?

The folks at forno bravo have multiple message board threads on this and other pizza/brick ovens.

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No useful advice, but I did once try to build a tandoori in my backyard in Cameroon using the large clay pots used locally to store water and a whole lot of adobe. It worked with some effort, but it would have worked better if I had put more thought into the airflow. It did have the advantage of leading to my neighbors regularly sending dinners over to me, as clearly this eccentric foreigner had no concept of how to cook food.

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Bumping. May do this tomorrow or may need to wait until the holiday break.