Topic: Home made Tandoori oven

[greerbandb]

   Hi Guys,

Just to gloat really (shouldn't before I start using it) I have been busy making a BBQ Tandoori and Pizza Oven combination, I wanted to wait till I finished everything before I used them, But I couldn't wait. Tonight I am going to use the Tandoori oven for the first time proper. I will put pictures on. Then I will tell you how I made it.

Surprisingly easy (construction) but hard work making them

[haldi]

look forward to hearing about it!

[goncalo]

Thanks for posting this, I'm considering making my own as well. How much did you spent on it so far and where did you source your materials from?

Thanks

[Garabi Army]

A step by step guide would be great, It's also something I am thinking of doing.

Cheers,
Ken

[greerbandb]

Sorry I didn't reply sooner, as you can see by my newly posted pictures the craftsmanship was not great but it is quite a sizeable structure.

I had the bricks/pavers lying around from the person I bought the house from.

I bought a brickey mate from seeing the adverts on tv channels and thought that would help, it did in a way I learnt the thickness of mortar which needs to go on each layer.
 
I used a ton of sand and 10 bags of concrete for the main part.(after the base was levelled) I would however suggest if like me in hindsight just to buy the ready mortar mix for brickwork - much easier right consistency- unless you know what you are doing.

1-I had levelled the site out first hard-core impacted down
2- I made a base with wood I then added mortar mix with hard-core and some steel rods to give it strength, then me and the wife levelled it as well as we could
3 - let it dry for 5 days
4- then I started to build up the courses of the walls.

Each part had their unique problems, I never used specific dimensions I just looked online to see how others did it, using YouTube videos

I will elaborate on each separately in my next posts, but well worth the work, as it will last years!
 

[greerbandb]

This picture shows the form/former whatever it is called to make the arches just a  two crude wooden bits of chipboard joined together by a brick length of wood slats/offcuts

[greerbandb]

This is the tandoori oven, it was built in this shape to accommodate the size of the area left to me after doing the base of the pizza oven.

I started to build a couple of layers of bricks, leaving the front with a 50 cm gap to let air in to the fire and assist cleaning.

I stood the bricks on their ends as you can see. inside I used 10-11 fire bricks also on their ends and cemented into place with fire cement ( big bag of it from jewsons) on top of this - yes you don't believe me- a rhubarb forcer from the local garden centre ( hence the lid you can see)

I then built the walls round it up to the height I wanted. I then filled around the forcer with a big bag of vermiculite which was mixed by had with concrete, (apparently don't use a mixer for this!)

On top of this I put a good layer of cement which had some of that dye in it, you will also note I slopped the concrete on the top and left a gap at the back to let heavy rainfall come off. the rhubarb forcer lid will have to go indoors over winter and some other lid in its place.

I also had a wire for woks to stand on electric cookers which fits great over the hole and it really cooks / heats the wok