Shopping guide

Important information when purchasing a wood oven

The purchase of an oven supposes a significant outlay for the client and therefore he deserves all the possible and truthful information so that the purchase does not become an unpleasant surprise in what had to be an item of enjoyment for family and friends. 

We will highlight the most important points and details in which the future customer has to pay attention to make the right purchase:

  1. Serious and experienced companies
  2. Product Features
  3. Oven measurements

1 – Serious and experienced companies 

Artynav, sl (hornosdeleña.com) is the pioneer company in the construction of prefabricated ovens. We were the first to build prefabricated wood-fired ovens, completely finished to be able to deliver to our customers. 

Hornosdeleña.com is the only company in the sector subject to the verified opinions of our clients, we work with the company REVI, always with verified opinions about clients who have made a purchase from us and qualifying us for product quality, shipping quality and quality of delivery. service, without the possibility on our part to modify the opinions of the clients, we can only answer, in an open and readable way by all the clients. We currently have more than 6000 opinions with a score of 9,78 out of 10. A pride and satisfaction for us. 

2 – Product features

There are three main ways of building wood ovens:

mini wood oven

clay vault ovens

Manufactured mainly in Spain and Portugal, it consists of a one-piece clay vault, approximately 2-4 cm thick. Among the advantages it has is that they are easy to prefabricate, light in weight, normally the clay is made up of kaolin and refractory clay. The disadvantage is their fragility and low wall thickness, although they have good resistance and temperature retention.

traditional wood oven

Traditional brick-on-brick oven

These are built with refractory bricks, the old-fashioned way, brick on brick, interlocked, they can be made of high alumina (pizzerias and restaurants), our star oven, thickness of the vault 5-6 cts. Oven guaranteed for many years and with great efficiency, among the advantages, its great robustness, guarantee of resistance and retention at temperature and resistance to cracks. Disadvantages, its complicated construction and its weight, since they are usually between 500 and 900 kg.

traditional wood oven

Refractory concrete vault

This system is the one normally used by the majority of world manufacturers, especially the Italian ones, a furnace made up of refractory concrete modules. In our case, the concrete is made up of 100% kaolin clay, which makes it a high-pressure furnace. alumina, very suitable for domestic and professional ovens. 

3 – Measurements of the ovens

We enter a very interesting topic, the one that will affect us the most when buying an oven. Although it may seem so, they are not the same measurements of a 90 cm clay oven. than a traditional 90 or 90 cm oven. Tony why? 

Well, for a very simple reason that goes unnoticed by most customers. When talking about measurements of clay ovens, it always refers to the external measurement of the oven, that is to say, that a clay oven of 90, in reality, the useful internal measurement is 80-84cm inside. Although I am a bit heavy on this topic, we are going to take an example of the difference between an oven with an internal measurement of 84 cm. And another 90 cm useful interior.

FORMULA FOR THE SURFACE OF A CIRCUMFERENCE: π xr 2.

84 cm oven: 3,1416 x 1764 (42×42 radius2) = 5.541 cm2

90 cm oven: 3,1416 x 2025(45×45 radius2) = 6.361 cm2

                          DIFFERENCE ………………………………… 820 cm2

difference 820cm2 equivalent to a casserole of 30 x 27 cm

Surprised right? Well that's the reality.

We also have to assess the type of insulation, as well as final finishes and, as I said before, the opinions of customers who have already purchased and it is the best reference to get the right purchase of a wood-fired oven.

We hope these clarifications will help you decide which oven you are interested in and above all avoid surprises when purchasing your oven.