How long does the oven hold its heat? How hot does the inside of the oven get?
With a good two hour fire and a 20 minute rest with the fire in the back, the center of the floor of the oven is at about 750F. After about 90 minutes of pizza party this is down to about 500F. I keep a fire going in the back of the oven throughout. Lately I’ve been burning scrap lumber, mostly 4×4 and 2×4 I picked up at a construction site, so it burns rather quickly. Anyway, back to the question: you can bake pizzas for about 90 minutes. You can roast any kind of meat with heat to spare. I’d guess you could bake two sets of bread loaves without refiring, either. With the oven closed off by a wooden door, it holds heat well… it was about 200F the morning after a pizza party.
