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Wood Fired Oven Information

Good Life Book Club

The Good Life Book Club has a truly great range of reference books including all the classics: Your Brick Oven, The Bread Builders & Build Your Own Earth Oven.

In addition, the Earth Garden publications Backyard Ovens and the new Wood Oven Recipe Book are both practical and inspiring (and not just because we’re in them!)
www.goodlifebookclub.com

Traditional Oven, is a really interesting, quirky, personal site, chock full of detailed and practical information, working plans and photos and no hard sell – the way the internet should be.
www.traditionaloven.com

WOOD FIRED OVEN BUILDERS AND MATERIALS

Marco's Wood Fired Ovens

Marco’s Pizza Ovens, he’s a true artist with stone and a real old-school Aussie gentleman. If you’re impatient for an oven, he makes a great big sturdy dome on a thick steel plate that can be delivered anywhere in Australia at a really competitive price or, if you can wait, he’ll work with you to create an oven that’ll look like it grew naturally at your place. If you're partying in South East Queensland, he also hires out his own very practical and well designed catering ovens on trailers.
www.marcoswoodfiredpizzaovens.com

Wood Fired Up

If you live in North Queensland, Steve and Chantelle from Wood Fired Up in Townsville make great architectural ovens, create sophisticated outdoor spaces and have a helluva party-oven for hire.
www.woodfiredup.com.au

Tuscan Pizza Ovens

Another fine oven builder from FNQ is Anthony Mauro from Tuscan Pizza Ovens. Anthony’s even happy to rent you one of his ovens for awhile, just to help you decide…
www.tuscanpizzaovens.com

Lifestyle OvensMake sure you also have a look at Filippo Silvestro's site - Lifestyle Ovens – he’s working on some great ‘HOW TO’ videos and foody footage and the Aussie made ovens he sells rival anything you'll see imported from Italy. Filippo lives and breathes his business and is cooking in his ovens nearly every day, so when he says he has lifestyle ovens, he means it.
www.lifestyleovens.com

Traditional Brick Ovens

Powerhouse couple Glen and Mary from Traditional Brick Ovens in South Australia not only do great ovens, but they’ve just built themselves an amazing new show room too. If you can, go in and see their stunning display or enrol in one of their terrific cooking classes. Mary is also a Master Oven Caterer and you can book her for functions – you gotta be quick though!
www.traditionalbrickovens.com

Sydney Heaters

Peter and Kelly-Anne from Sydney Heaters are oven builders to the stars. You've probably already seen their work. It was featured on Jamie Durie's The Outdoor Room and it’s appeared in beautiful houses in countless Home and Decorating magazines. They recommend and use Alfresco ovens in their outdoor rooms and seeing as they are also respected heating and fireplace advisors, they really are a treasure, whatever the season.
www.sydneyheaters.com.au

Alfresco

Another husband and wife team to watch are Trent and Jonelle from Alfresco Wood Fired Pizza Ovens in Perth, West Australia. Trent's family, are probably the most well known oven makers in Australia. They've been hard at it since 2003 and their classic ovens, their showroom, their regular cooking demo's and their website all reflect the quality, professionalism and the masses of experience they have behind them. Just FYI, it was their oven (and it was installed by Sydney Heaters, above) that featured in the 8 page spread in the October 09 issue of Delicious magazine, where Valli Little tries her hand at WFO cookery.
www.alfrescowoodfiredovens.com.au

Rockcote

Rockcote, for the most beautiful architectural renders, washes, coatings and stone finishes in stunning natural colours. Rockcote is a worldwide phenomenon, a serious sustainable business leader and a Sunshine Coast legend. The founders, Bob and Chris Cameron, are generous, warm, real people with a fantastic outdoor kitchen of their own (you can see glimpses of it in some of our photos) and a real love for ovens, building, bread making, food, wine and just living well. If you’ve got questions or concerns about the surfaces in your outdoor kitchen, if you want beautiful rendered walls or you want to protect and nourish your stonework, this company will know what you want and will have what you need.
www.rockcote.com.au

Rockcote Traditional Arts

Rockcote Traditional Arts also make amazing earthen and cobb ovens themselves and/or will work with you – whether you’re a family, a business or a community group – to help you create a truly sustainable oven. They have big plans for developing this arm of their business to further support the use of a wide variety of sustainable building materials and all sorts of traditional arts.
www.traditionalarts.com.au

METAL ART & METAL ARTISTS

What has some flower place got to do with metal art you might ask? Well part of this complex at Highfields near Toowoomba in Queensland is a business called Scroll Magic. Once a year, in September, Scroll Magic is host to the Blacksmith Magic Festival. This is the Australian blacksmith’s AGM; the only place you will see these rare and highly solitary creatures in a group. Watch them show off, watch them compete, watch them drink - it’s a down and dirty, coal-fired weekend. Phone 07 46308679.
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Brendon Tracy Metal Art

Another mate from the markets, Brendan from Metal Art does beautiful stainless steel ocean-themed sculpture. A lousy fisherman in reality, in his work he really captures whole schools of fish, giant mud crabs, even stingrays!
www.brendantraceymetalart.com

GOOD FOOD & PRODUCE

Noosa Slow Food

This is our local convivia at Noosa, on the Sunshine Coast - which is the Italian word for group or organization, but sounds (and is) a lot more fun! There are over 800 such (largely autonomous) groups worldwide and they organize wonderful, grass roots events. If you haven’t already joined the one closest to you, hurry up and find them on the web – you’re missing out on amazing meals, really interesting recipes and some great new friends.
www.slowfoodnoosa.com

Local Harvest

These are the folks that feed us – the providors of the Sunshine Coast – all listed out in one place. www.localharvest.com.au

Basic Ingredients

I’ve heard it from a few of my friends with bread makers that these guys do fantastic, high quality bread mixes and flours. Then I also hear they’ve got a pizza dough mix that’s terrific – might be just the thing if you’re new to this game and a bit nervous.
www.basicingredients.com.au

CHECK OUT OUR PRODUCTS

Eumundi Markets

The World Famous Eumundi Markets on the Sunshine Coast in the state of Queensland - Australia. These markets are our spiritual home. In many guises – selling produce, the market hire business, making cheeses, making sauces, having the Lemonade Stand, being involved on the committee – we have been there now for over 20 years. We still shop there every Wednesday and our mate Robyn Geddes has our products on her beautiful breadboard stall.

Jan Powers

When we can, we occasionally do the fortnightly farmer’s market at the Powerhouse in Brisbane. Between it’s spectacular setting beside New Farm Park and it’s even more spectacular produce and food and flower stalls, it’s an absolute treat just to set up there. The new one at Manly’s also in a beaut spot right on the water.
www.janpowersfarmersmarkets.com.au

Tamborine

We also love these markets at Mount Tamborine and have been known to have a stall. We’re not regular. For us, it’s a 12.30am start, a three and a half hour drive and then two more hours in the casual stallholder queue to secure a good spot; so it’s a bit of an endurance test just to stay awake until we get set up! If you’re down in Brisbane or the Gold Coast though and they’re on, don’t miss them. They are one of the last of the real old-style country markets – great produce, great plants, great atmosphere and a truly spectacular location.
Phone: 07 55452155 Mobile: 0417618379.
www.tamborinemountain.net/markets.html

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