Dishwasher Converted Pizza Oven-Smoker

We replaced our dishwasher. It had issues. Hoping to turn it into a smoker/pizza oven. I thought it was an original idea until I googled it. This one is all stainless. The stove pipe will come out the side where that last plastic piece is. I'm going to weld a frame bigger than the body and wrap it with rock wool and stucco . I will probably incorporate a dolly into the frame to move it. It will have an electric element that is removable so I can burn wood for the pizza oven function. I might control the temperature of the element with an arduino or an STC-1000 temp controller I have from another project .Thinking about using bricks for the trim to give it a brick oven look. The door will be lined with rock wool too. I work for an insulation installer and he kindly donated the rock wool. I'll keep everyone informed and feel free to pitch ideas.

I stole these pictures of stuccoed ovens off the net to show what my goal is.

I framed the base with unistrut for structure and support. The wheels idea was silly and didn't work well...it was part of the tilt mechanism off a scrapped treadmill.... Maybe if it's on a flat concrete slab but in the yard... Forget moving it

Seemed like a good idea. Put a metal roller instead of plastic, put a cable on it ( not wire shown), left a gap between brick trim and washer tub so the mechanism had room to work ( which made the trim look funny on that side cause it didn't line up ) UPDATE.....all that and it came off and no way to get in there to fix it with stucco on. Guess I'll make a latch

This wire shelving will form the main structure for the stucco and leave a gap for the insulation.

I found this at the junkyard and bought it for .25 cents. The smoke entrance is placed low inside so it will trap smoke in smoker mode.

I tried screwing a bracket to support wheels...( update... It was pointless. The final oven was WAY to heavy to move)

I got 200 bricks for $20 off Craigslist. I broke them in half and drilled a hole in the brick with a masonry bit and wood screwed it around the edge.

I stuffed batts of rock wool insulation under the cage. My boss at Big City insulation in Nampa Idaho donated it for the cause :)

One side at a time. I started with a bag of stucco mix but ended up using my own recipe...1 part sand 2 parts Portland.

Someone ripped out their fireplace. These will line my oven..

Wired lattice to the structure to support stucco. The more wires the better. No stucco till I do a fire/cook test run

I got chunks for free at the local construction site junk bin. I had to cut to size and chamfer the edges on the one shown...this is just the outer section to the door ...it is a hollow door and in most places on the door there was room for three thicknesses of drywall.

Cookie sheet and pine board

Self explanatory

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/recipes/pizza

Experiment but go light on toppings

It was hot enough to cook pizzas in 5 minutes..

Finished it off by holding it on the plinth towards the top of the oven to brown it for another 30 seconds

Garlic powder butter and mozzarella

Belly full just sitting by the fire now. The heat is so intense and it reflects so well I'm 8 feet away. Much more efficient and warmer than my old copper above-ground fire pit. The outside is cool to the touch all night long. I shut it up and in the morning it was still hot enough to bake bread

I forgot to mention I drilled a hole for air control through the door. I'll screw a damper plate to it someday. May whitewash outside. May even mortar bricks inside. I like the configuration for sure. Conventional pizza ovens cook on the same surface as the fire. They have to wait for coals. I like this way much better.