Pizza ovens or wood fired ovens have grown in popularity in recent years and they continue to do so. Why? Because they are simply amazing things to own and be able to cook all manner of dishes with.

Get them screaming hot and watch homemade pizza literally cook before your eyes, enticing you with the smell of an Italian restaurant in your own home or back garden. Let the flames die down and the oven cool a little and you are ready for roasting and grilling an array of meat, fish and vegetables.

As the oven temperature drops further, slide in some breads or even a desert. Overnight roasting large joints of meat, simply with the heat retained in the bricks after the fire has gone out. The possibilities are literally endless. However, the difference in using an open fire to cook with as opposed to gas or electric is truly an amazing experience.

This book is for anyone who's dreamed of pizza in their own outdoors woodfired oven, but always lacked the space, the skills to build one or the funds to buy one.