Installation guide

Pompeii Oven Instructions

Building the First Oven

The next step was to actually build a Pompeii Oven. Jim

Hatch and I met on-line at a brick oven user group, and

began exploring how to best put the Pompeii Oven idea to

work in the real world. Jim's creative solutions to oven

design and construction issues were great, and we

concluded that the oven would work for an English-

speaking audience. Jim took the plunge, and started the

first Pompeii Oven.

Jim completed his oven in July 2004, less than three

months after we started talking about the idea. Jim's oven

is beautiful, and cooks wonderfully. Today, scores of

Pompeii Ovens have been built in America, Britain,

Mexico, Belgium, Brazil, Amsterdam, Australia, New

Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, the Philippines, Hawaii,

the Virgin Islands, and Thailand, joining Italy's estimated

millions of pizza ovens. More Pompeii Ovens are being

built every day.