Is it possible to turn your conventional ovens into a brick oven? Could you just put bricks or stones in it?
Is it possible to turn your conventional ovens into a brick oven? Could you just put bricks or stones in it?
I swear I read some way of doing this before, anyone ever done something like this?
You can buy unglazed ceramic tiles or a rectangular baking stone for a lower rack.
I’ve never heard of anywone completely lining their oven with brick.
However, at a minimum, using a rectangular baking stone will help even out the heat a lot better and is great for pizzas and bread baking.
The baking stone will absorb the heat from the heating elements and re-radiate it above more uniformly.
What the previous answerer is describing is using bricks or other things to create a “heat sink” in the oven to capture and hold the heat inside an oven (which will keep the temp even and not going up and down from the thermostat). Other things can be used too from broken clay pots, to a thick sheet of cured plaster, and more.
That won’t really turn a home oven into a “brick oven” though because for one thing home ovens just can’t get as hot as “brick ovens” can (for making pizza, etc.), even if the heat it can generate stays more even because of any heat sinks used.
Not sure what would happen if you tried to put bricks on all sides of the interior of an oven though, since the coils still have to heat the air in the oven cavity.