Perhaps your taste for pizza has never taken you beyond ... He’s taken the bottom half of an oil drum as his base, and built and fired the clay oven itself around a wooden former.

A fire in a brick or clay oven can easily reach 1000 ... idea of a 1000°F fire perched atop a flimsy wooden base. Building your own pizza oven isn't necessarily cheaper than buying one.

Robert advises that 'if you opt for a stand or base, start by building ... a classic dome-shaped pizza oven, Robert suggests: 'Using your chosen refractory or clay bricks, construct the dome ...