Get Easter 2025 Ready with a DIY Pizza Oven Project

Easter falls on April 20, 2025, potentially providing those who love a bit of outdoor DIY with a couple of months, once the worst of the winter weather passes, in which to get stuck in to a new project.  

If you also have no plans to get away in the spring, perhaps it’s the perfect time to use pleasant spring weekends to take on a DIY project.  For any foodie, or someone who loves to get family or friends together outdoors, what could be better than building your own pizza oven?

DIY pizza oven kits come in many shapes and sizes, with differentiation very often on the basis of quality.  If you’re going to plough all of your effort into a DIY project of which to be proud, you should make absolutely sure that it’s not going to be an oven that fails after just a few uses.  Your hard work should only be put behind something that’s going to be with you and your family for many years to come, providing many hours of enjoyment when all totted up.  

Choosing the best DIY pizza oven

This makes a Valoriani DIY pizza oven kit the number one obvious choice.  It’s a no-brainer for anyone who doesn’t want to look a fool by spending all their time creating something that’s a flop, through no real fault of their own.  This kit features parts that have the same manufacturing credentials as an oven that you would have professionally fitted for you and it’s what goes into it that allows any DIY-er to get so much out of it.

The ‘ingredients’ are basically top notch in every way.  The component parts – the most important of which are the dome and floor – are made from cotto clay, a unique refractory clay that is durable, fit for purpose when it comes to enclosing a pizza oven fire and responsive to that fire by heating up super-efficiently and retaining heat, to create a perfect cooking environment.

The depth of oven floor makes it very hard to harm, unless you are exceptionally careless, reckless or clumsy.  

The parts are considerately created so as to come together easily and effectively, ensuring no gapping or issues that could prevent an oven from functioning correctly.

There is nothing in this kit that shouldn’t be there; nothing that is actually intended for a different purpose and not for a pizza oven.  

The masters behind the DIY pizza oven kit are a family that has been plying their trade in refractory products since the 1890s.  The Valoriani family understands the properties of the materials that go into their ovens in depth and convey their expertise by creating DIY kits to which they are proud to put their prestigious Valoriani name.  These are not second-best options but of the same first-class standard as the parts found in any other oven.  The only difference is that you can be in charge of putting all elements together. 

Is it easy to build a pizza oven?

It’s worth a go for many homeowners who have decent DIY skills but, if you do get stuck, the Orchard Ovens team is always on hand, to offer advice or even step in and do things for you, if it proves beyond your skill set.  

If you also decide that you’d actually like to create something bigger around your oven and have a fully designed outdoor oven ‘set’, then Orchard Ovens can use the skills it has deployed for A-listers and other huge names in business and industry.

The DIY kit should not prove beyond your capabilities if you are pretty handy but you may need a mate or two to help lift things into position or hold things in place whilst you effect the next required move in the construction.  Having a go can be hugely rewarding, particularly if you complete the challenge.

If you do spend a few weeks on this and end up with a wonderful pizza oven in your back garden or outdoor space, you will have a whole new world of entertaining ahead of you.  And you need not just pigeonhole it as a ‘pizza oven’, as this oven can cook virtually anything.

Pizza ovens for more than Italian cookery

Your woodfired oven from Valoriani should be able to cook up fantastic dishes from around the world, rather than just rustling up Italian food and that includes good old British roasts, that you might associate with Easter. However, it can also cook stews, Moroccan tagine-style dishes, Indian curries, Thai classics, paellas and even classic British cakes and desserts.

Ask us about a DIY pizza oven kit today and occupy yourself, in the months running up to Easter, with something that can add value to your property and also enrich your life.  Call 07743 847647 to find out more, or listen to the podcast here https://bit.ly/3WJqIB2

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Editors notes

Orchard Ovens is the domestic and commercial pizza oven supplier in the UK of Valoriani, based in Reggello, Tuscany - the manufacturer of Italy's hugely respected Valoriani pizza ovens, known as the Maserati of pizza ovens and the kings of clay. These ovens are made from superb refractory clay - cotto clay - found in the family's quarry and unique, thanks to having just the right alumina. This allows Valoriani ovens to heat up quickly and retain heat superbly, bring huge advantages to homeowners, as well as restaurant owners, hotels, pubs, mobile caterers, pizzerias, takeaways and more.

Orchard Ovens supplies some of Britain's best-known restaurants and chefs, whilst it is also a specialist creator of outdoor kitchens and wood-fired oven builds for the rich and famous, as well as everyday homeowners wishing to add value to their home and enjoy an outdoor lifestyle to the full.