Just made this. I cut an old empty butane tank in half and cut a hole in the bottom for the air then put a couple of peices of metal across the hole and welded then a couple of bricks go on top then fire. I have a mesh panel for the top (you let the fire die to embers) on top of which a thin stone will got for the pizza then the other half of the tank for the top heat which will have a couple of holes in that. Will be trying it out soon.
Nice ghetto mod, but i have some concerns when it come to it's ability to cook a pizza. You will need a bit more heat at the top for the filling to heat up before the bread gets burned.
I will follow my nose around Peterborough until I find where you live. I am South-West, I will start at the A1 and work my way up.
Well i've been doing some reasearch into this and because i need a small peice i'm going to have to buy some custom, I think i will be using terra cotta.
won't the trapped air in most terra cotta cause it to explode? May i suggest casting your own slab in concrete, more chance of not getting something with trapped air bubbles.
Why not use slate? Shouldn't cost that much, and can be cut to size with an angle grinder or even a coping saw as long as you have the correct disc/blade.
Apparently not if you gradually heat it. Hmm sounds good I'll have to look into it I'm not 100% sure yet.
How do you guarantee a butane tank isn't 100% devoid of ANY flammable gas before you take an sharp cutting tool to it?? Even if it has no pressure, surely there's still the risk of explosion since you start showering friction sparks inside...
That was my first thought too! I'm paranoid after decades of working around car gas tanks and them buggers will surprise you plenty even after years of sitting supposedly empty. john
Looks like 13Kg of fun He could have punctured the empty can, with something other than a spark producing cutting tool, and flush it out with copious amounts of pressurized air or like sesterfield said fill it with water
