Al Santillo's famed pizzeria in Elizabeth caught fire in 2024, but with the help of Dave Portnoy is rebuilding and will soon reopen.

DeGrood built himself a wood-fired oven more than 20 years ago that continues to function as well as the day it was built. Dig and Prep the Pad Site Build a form for the concrete pad with 2x10’s.

The best tasting pizza is cooked in a wood-burning pizza oven built out of brick. It's been that way for years, but we continue to cook our pizza in standard ovens and settle for soggy or burnt pizza.

Detailed instructions for building the outdoor brick oven are below. Even if you only use it to bake bread, you can save enough money in one year to more than pay for the $300 cost.

Building your own woodfired pizza oven takes at least seven to 10 days and sometimes up to a month, says Giuseppe. (For Giuseppe's grandfather, who passed down his oven-building skills, it took ...