I have a woodfired pizza oven, made out of left over materials from my wood kiln. It's a tiny brick catenary arch with an adobe-like exterior coating. It takes about an hour to heat up the oven to be hot enough for pizza.

Here's the pizza dough recipe I've been using:

1 pkg dry yeast (2 1/4 tsp)
1 1/3 cups warm water
3 - 4 cups flour
2 Tbsp olive oil
A healthy pinch of salt

Dissolve yeast in water, let it stand for 5 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients, saving about a cups of flour to use during the kneading process. Blend ingredients. Knead dough until it is smooth and elastic. Coat the inside of a clean bowl with oil and turn the dough in it to coat it. Cover with a clean towel and let it rise for an hour or so. Then shape into crusts. 

The oven is built out of low duty brick. I use a small piece of kiln shelf to "preheat" the pizzas on. The exterior coating of the kiln is a mixture of sand, sawdust, fireclay, and portland cement. I used this same coating on the exterior of my kiln as an insulator. By volume the mix is approximately:

3 parts sand
3 parts sawdust
3 parts fireclay
1 part portland cement 



The pizzagama was built by Jon Grengs and Lauren McCutcheon during one of my first wood firings. The COMMUNITY brick was made by Josh Copus. In addition to being part of a great public art piece, it also works well as the chimney for the kiln.