Ozark Dreams features recreation and tourist information on the Arkansas Eastern Ozarks region, as well as content on special interest and Green Living projects.  

The current main feature of this site is the construction and use (cooking, low smoke fires, recipes, ...) of a wood burning brick pizza oven. Wood burning brick pizza ovens are often incorporated in outdoor kitchens as well as built as standalone structures in your backyard or garden area.   Site content ranges from extensive construction pictures, cooking pizza and other foods, material sources for building, recipes, information on how to build low smoke fires, and perhaps most valuable to people wanting to build, a list of links to the great web sites used to help construct and cook this wood burning brick pizza and bread oven.  The site also has pictures and contributions from people who have used this site to build their own ovens including a cool video showing the time lapse construction and use an oven set to some fun pizza music.  Click on Oven Stories to see the video.  

Expansion of content will be occurring soon with the addition of pages devoted to other ways to cook pizza and prepare dough including grilled pizza and using a pizza stone in your conventional, indoor oven.  Also outdoor and green living topics are in work including solar power and LED lighting.  Free energy, low energy usage green living topics.  Stay tuned!

Outdoor Wood Burning Brick Pizza Oven

Many pictures covering the construction of an Outdoor Wood Burning Brick Pizza Oven are provided, with each phase of the construction documented with pictures and descriptions on separate web pages. 

Construction of the base, consisting of site preparation, installation of re-bar, and side walls, and insulated refractory hearth (using lime- portland cement- concrete  mixture)

Building the oven chamber including interior and exterior fire brick arches, and application of cladding for structural and thermal mass.

The outdoor wood burning brick pizza oven chimney and finishing are covered in additional pages.

Pages covering cooking and material sources are also provided.