Where to buy gas components for pizza oven build
I'm starting to think I may want to build my own pizza oven. This project is at least a year or two off so I'm just in the early planning stage. I want a gas fired oven and I'm wondering if anyone knows where I could buy the necessary gas burners?
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Home Depot can ship you what you need.-
No, I just see BBQ burners and various regulators. Judging from the burner on my Blackstone pizza oven compared to my Blaze grill's burners I can't imagine a BBQ burner is going to be sufficient. I am not interested in a pellet pizza oven either. I really like having a 900-degree pizza oven in 10 minutes with no setup or cleanup aftewards like my Blackstone can do. I like to cook pizzas on weeknights for a quick and easy dinner. So pellets or wood-fired ovens aren't what I'm looking for.
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I have a friend who is an appliance repairman. He seems to know all about burners. I would think someone like that might be a good place to start. Besides he may have one lying around he salvaged out of something. I’m a firm believer in the good old network. It used to be the good old boy network but my world got a lot better when I included the girls.Comment
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How big of an oven? What would the design be? It seems to me, burners would have to fit the design. Can you furnish a rudimentary drawing?Comment
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Not too big but big enough for a 16" pizza. I think my Blackstone has a 16" stone but that doesn't equate to actually making a 16" pie. Plus it'll need room for the burner and space from the flame to the edge of the pizza. So maybe an 18 - 22" floor. Here's a rough sketch although I have yet to give it much thought at this point. The design might depend on available components.
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Frank is a friend who owns Belforno company, they sell either whole ovens or just the parts. Here's a link to the burners:
Pizza Ovens Gas Burners for Residential & Commercial 802-230-4600 (belforno.com)
He's a great guy, I've never compared prices so I don't know how competitive his prices are.Comment
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troymeister I'm now thinking I would probably build the base with cinder blocks and face those with decorative stone. Then I would build a floor on top of that and the oven would go above that. So the oven would have a larger form than my sketch above. The interior of the oven would the as small as I show in the sketch or quite possibly a bit larger.Comment
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Attjack Any idea how many BTU's these pizza oven burners are? Maybe you could adapt a jet burner of some sort to produce the flames in the back?Comment
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That's what's in my Blackstone and it's 60,000 BTU. But it operates in a unique manner blasting the spinning stone and bathing the upper stone at the same time. If I take on this project I'm definitely running the risk of making something that simply doesn't perform adequately. Trying to DIY on the cheap could mean enough failures to drive up the cost and defeat the whole purpose.
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Attjack if you can't find a burner that is less than $1000 like all the ones I keep finding online, maybe the way to go would be a jet burner in/under the back, but be capable of supplementing with wood - i.e. the burner will be enough heat for lower temp cooking and baking, and then add wood and let the burner get it going if you need that 700-900 heat?
I guess though if you have wood then you gotta add a stack, versus just letting the door be the exhaust if its gas only?Comment
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I guess if when my Blackstone no longer spins I could try use its jet burner. At that point I would have nothing to lose. I still want to avoid wood if possible but if I can't just building a wood fired oven would probably be the easiest way to go.
Now I'm thinking of my wok burner or maybe my turkey fryer that my nephew probably still has and no one seems to want. I could probably throw together some prototypes with it and get an idea of whats possible.
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BTW if I did go with your hybrid idea a stack would surely be necessary and not a big deal to add.Comment
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This is a pretty good video about larger portable pizza ovens. It shows some different gas burner configurations .
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Attjack I am just thinking about my brew stand - both the 65K btu banjo burner and the 105K btu jet burner can crank out a HUGE flame, more than a foot tall off the burner. I feel like either of those flames in an enclosed small space like a pizza oven would do two things - first, the flame would be shooting up across the top, like you want, and secondly, it would be hot as crap in a confined space.Comment
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Here you go!
Build your own burner!
Thinking about it though, I wonder if you want high or low pressure for a burner in a pizza oven. The high pressure jet burner on my brew stand sounds, well, like a jet! And the flame is pretty straight up, then hits the bottom of the keggle and goes sideways in all directions. A lower pressure flame that is big is probably what you want, so that its not just all blue, but has some yellow in it too.Comment
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What kind of btu output do you figure you need. Take a look at double ring paella burners. Many have outputs greater than 80,000 btu. Inner ring directly heats stone while outer ring heats stone and chamber. With a slight design change one of them might work.
For example : https://www.paellapans.com/garcima-p...ner-model-L60/Comment
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Attjack this guy has a video of a portable pizza oven build, and his "burner" is just a pipe with a couple of holes drilled in it, running off a propane regulator. Looks like the flame pattern works well for him.
An orifice for a burner is, after all, just an opening of the right diameter for the BTU's you want, based on the density of the gas in use...
The video has links to how to build bottom burners and the top burners. He seems very well researched too.Comment
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