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16 Custom Tile Design Ideas for Your Outdoor Pizza Oven

Feb 10, 2022

Custom tile designs allow you to personalize your Forno Bravo pizza oven, injecting some of your own personality and style to make it 100% unique to you.  Both the Vesuvio and Napolino are available with a huge range of customizable tiles that can be chopped and changed in whichever style you like, but the majority of our pizza ovens are customizable in some way.  Whether you’re looking for a Forno... Read More

10 Countertop Ideas for Your Wood Fired Oven

Feb 10, 2022

Countertops serve multiple purposes when coupled up with a Forno Bravo Pizza Oven Kit. First of all, you need somewhere to craft your homemade pizzas. Though don’t forget that there are loads of dishes you can cook in a Forno Bravo oven as well – check out our community cookbook for heaps of ideas there! Countertops also dictate whether or not you’re creating a more comprehensive dining space or just... Read More

Thanks to Feedback from Dealers / Customers on our prints

Feb 20, 2015

To the Forno Bravo faithful, we appreciate the feedback and suggestions regarding our print layouts for our wood fired oven kits.  Many of our technical support calls over the years have been because our prints were more about oven use, then install.  That is changing!  We are in the process of updating all our drawings to provide Architectural views for Designers / Installers as well as key component parts. We... Read More

Innovating the Pizza Oven; Part II

Sep 30, 2012

In yesterday’s posting about the Ovens from Napoli, I found myself writing and thinking about the companies that make pizza ovens, and their underlying organizational and design philosophies. And whether they are innovative or traditional; pushing the state-of-the-art or still making their grandfather’s pizza oven. One of the first things that struck me was how virtually every other pizza oven company is deeply rooted in the past, and how much... Read More

Keeping It Simple

May 18, 2012

I really enjoyed this posting on www.zeldman.com: web design news & information since 1995. THANK YOU for the screen shot. I was actually already aware that the type on my site is big. I designed it that way. And while I’m grateful for your kind desire to help me, I actually do know how the site looks in a browser with default settings on a desktop computer… The first thing... Read More

Innovating the Outdoor Fireplace: Part 3

May 17, 2012

I have been writing about ways that Forno Bravo can develop an outdoor fireplace that is both easy to set up and also looks like a real, site-built masonry outdoor fireplace. Here is a graphical view of how these layers might look. Read More

Innovating a 2,000 Year Old Product

Apr 10, 2012

The word innovation usually conjures up images of semiconductors, Internet software and green energy. But at Forno Bravo, we keep innovating around a 2,000 year old product. I have written a lot over the years about the ovens in ancient Pompeii, and how remarkable the design, the materials and the craftsmanship were on the ovens. How do you improve on something that has been so well known and understood for... Read More

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