Wintering Your Pizza Oven

Quick post on wintering your wood burning pizza oven. I didn’t want the oven exposed to the elements through the winter (good idea with all the snow and ice this year). I bought a generic Home Depot BBQ cover and cut a slit in the side of it. The largest one fits perfectly around the oven as you can see.

Also of note, you can see my chimney pipe which I added towards the end of the season to avoid heat and smoke damage to my BBQ overhang. I recommend that you take down the top part of the pipe and the chimney cap. Seems like a pain in the ass – yes. But, with the wind, snow and ice it is just to much trouble to leave it up there in my opinion. If you are enclosing the whole unit, this obviously isn’t an issue – but if you are leaving it exposed I think the caution is warranted. I had the foresight to secure the pipe with bolts – so removing at the end of the season and putting back up in spring is no big deal.