Plans for wood burning ovens can be found in the following sources.

Benard Clayton's Complete Book of Breads (Recently revised)

www.traditionaloven.com (The individual who has this site appears to be from Australia)

Mother Earth News (July, Aug., or Sept. 2009 issue - I don't remember which one. It has a picture of veggies and mentions fall gardening on the cover. There is a brief article about ovens and I believe you can contact the author for plans.)

And of course, if you do an internet search for "wood burning oven plans", you will find all kinds of venders who sell them pre-manufactured.

Kristal

Don't forget Kiko Denzer's book "Build your own earth oven" (book is nice-I've got my saved beer bottles for oven's subfloor...LOL

Here are some links for you:  http://www.mnn.com/the-home/household-products/stories/from-laid-off-to-bread-winning-baker-thanks-to-a-100-diy-oven-0

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/Clay-Oven-Bread-Business.aspx

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8451084/Building-A-Bread-Oven

http://small-scale.net/yearofmud/2009/09/12/build-your-own-20-outdoor-cob-oven-for-great-bread-and-pizza/

http://www.ovencrafters.net/

http://www.gulland.ca/homenergy/brickoven.htm

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/firebricks.htm

HI LUCY-SUE
We built an oven here at the Hospitality Tech college from plans on cd from traditional oven, it is my intention to build another 3 or 4 as my 2 daughters my cousin and i all want our own now. the cd is cheap and easy to follow and Rado offers lots of help if you have questions or get stuck
the oven will cook 2 pizzas at a time in 3 or 4 minutes or less and after i can get 18 x 500gram loaves in.
also cooked a 10kg leg of pork over 10 hours melt in your mouth stuff
regards YOZZA

Thanks everyone!

Lucy

Lucy,

I built a large Scott style oven here about ten years ago.  Check out www.marygbread.com for pics.  If you're looking for a round, Neopolitan pizza/bread oven you can download free plans at www.fornobravo.com for one with a 39" floor.  You have to register to "buy" them (to keep out spammers), but after that you will be sent a download key, and they are free. The plans were devised with the help of FB Forum members/builders from around the world.

Just one more avenue.

CJ

Here's a link to a smaller home-size adobe/clay oven.  This one was evidently built in a "no frost" area, so proper insulation of the slab base would be necessary.

http://www.grit.com/Tools/Backyard-Bread-Oven.aspx

I have been dreaming about this for sometime now. Alan Scott, one of the world's leading innovators and popularizers of outdoor ovens recently passed away, but he has a very good book entitled The Bread Builders - Scott is the authority. Also the Forno Bravo has free plans for excellent and beautiful outdoor ovens at thier web site www.fornobravo.com. Bernard Clayton has a very basic plan in the appendix of his revised Complete Book - very affordable and very very basic.

that there is no such thing as "a" wood burning oven. Rather, there are various styles of WFOs that are each best suited for a particular purpose and/or budget. (Tho' each will work in a pinch for other purposes  - just not quite as well.)

Therefore, your first task should be to decide how you want to use your oven, what you want to cook in it and how much space you have. For example, typical kit pizza ovens have thin walls that heat quickly and cook pizza well, but may not work so well for large/long bakes of bread or meats after the fire is raked out since they just can't store as much heat. Vaulted ovens with thick walls and domes store lots of heat and work well for long bakes, but take a LOT more wood to heat up and are inefficient and slow if all you want is to make a pizza or two. Similarly, you can build anything from an oven that will bake one loaf and heats with a few sticks, to an oven that will bake a hundred loaves and takes a LONG time to heat, using a LOT of wood. Your choice, but if you will typically only be baking 2 or 3 loaves, no point in building a behemoth that takes a cord of wood and half a day to fire.

Be aware of the compromises you will be faced with and make informed decisions before you start because once you build a WFO, it's pretty tough to change it. ;-)

ClimbHi
Pittsburgh, PA

PS: Some pics of the process of building a Scott-style oven. (Note that there are a few changes that I'd make next time.)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/climbhipa/sets/72157613634415857/ 

Been there, done that. LOVE IT! I built mine from Kiko Denzer's book as a guide. I used all reclaimed or recycled materials, scrounging around old construction sites, digging sand in a creek bed (somebody did, however, imply they would call the cops on me if I returned to the creek), clay  came from the whole I had to dig for a frost-line depth base, etc. I've used it for breads, pizza, and calzones, much to the delight of my family. Each of my teenagers had a backyard party where Dad served as the pizza chef (yes, I was actually welcomed by my teenagers). Their friends thought it was awesome. It was well worth the time and effort. I enjoy using it, and there's a certain degree of pride since I built it 99.9% on my own. 

Here's a link to another oven, the Quebec Clay Oven, which is the style I hope to build.  It's an out of print book, but I have seen them available on occasion for more than I would ever pay.  I had to open the individual chapters (pdf) and then save them individually.

 http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/barbeau/mbp0501e.shtml

On the Forno Bravo site... you need to go to the "STORE" and then select 'e-books' from the menu on the left of the page.   There are several publications to chose from... Building a Pompeii Oven is one (about 100 pages).  They are all free.  (At the bottom of the page they offer the same publications for $10 each with the money going to the Christopher Reeves Foundation.)  You select 'BUY' and it will go to your shopping cart with a $0 charge.  When you check out you need to register (if you haven't already) then you will be e-mailed an invoice for $0, and another e-mail with a link to download the publication good for 72 hours... and another e-mail with your account information (name, address, etc.)... and then probably duplicates of everything you just got. 

Good luck!

Hi all- I just downlaoded the forno bravo plans mentioned above as did my friend in Australia.  While I can bake good bread, I am a computer dummy-but my friend isn't.  Neither of us can open the plans to view them.  Any suggestions?

The file is a pdf, so you need Adobe PDF reader to open it.  It's a free program available from Adobe.

CJ

Thanks so much for your advice on opening plans.  We both have adobe reader.  Will try these instructions  & forward (this) webpage to my friend also.  You guys are great!!

Thanks again everyone for the help.  I was able to open plans without a hitch!  They look really great.