Over at Joe Pastry's Blog

http://www.joepastry.com/

he's talking about his new brick oven, and his difficulties learning to use it. Nice pix. I hadn't realized that firing a brick oven was such an art. 

Hi,

Has anyone purchased and tried the new Cuisinart Brick Oven for home use?  It looked interesting, but before I bought it, I thought I would check around.  I bake artisan breads and currently use my La Cloche successully.  It sounds like this oven might be worth buying.

Has anyone ever built a wood-burning brick oven? I am considering doing it in my backyard. I don't want it too simple looking such as adobe mud, but want to do something more brick and tile looking because we will probably be selling our home in the next two years and want something that will be a real eye catcher. Any advice?

rcornwall