Ultimate pizza

This is my brother Erik's backyard pizza oven.  He lives 15 minutes from me in Arusha.

The dome part is the oven.  It is all made from the clay on his land. The brick factory is too.  The dome has a thick wall with air pockets made by putting empty wine bottles inside the wall. You can just see the tips of some of them.

Erik shovels the coals to the periphery then sweeps the ashes away.  The pizza will be placed right on the hot brick floor.  The yellow thing just above Erik's head is a laser thermometer that told us that the bricks were 500 degrees Celsius which is about 900 Fahrenheit.  Instead of cooking in an oven for 20 minutes, the pizza is done in 4.

Nashesha, my niece, rolls out the pizza dough so fast, her hands are a blur. I challenged her to do the toss the dough in the air thing like I see on TV and she can even do that.

Next the homemade pizza sauce.

Then the other toppings and grated cheese.

The pizza is made on the board then slid into the oven.

Turn it after 2 minutes so it cooks evenly.

Pizza ready to eat.  It is fabulous.

Don