Hi Kevin and Matt, I hope you both enjoyed your TD! I love this oven (MBG) and the pizza has been a huge hit with family and friends. Its so much fun cooking in it as It makes me feel like a young chef again using a combi-oven for the first time!
Now that I’ve had about 12 fires with some great pizzas I’ve had some thoughts about a retro-fit. In the Oven Plans for the MBG step F calls for a piece of angle iron to create a top ledge lowering the opening several inches.
I realize I can’t take the oven apart and install this. I did have some thoughts, questions, and ideas.
I found online the Old West Iron Company and they had some cool oven door systems. Those could work however they mostly had hinged doors with a piece of iron or steel across the bottom requiring you to lift the pie over that piece to remove from the oven.
In a perfect world I would like to find an insert without a bottom brace, no hinged door, It would slide in following the arch of the oven and have a flange that would cover the inside corner of the barrel and create a ledge a few inches down from the top creating a ledge much like as shown in in step F of the MBG plans. And while I’m at it this insert would allow for the existing door that came with the package fits within it creating a seal. So I guess the question is…am I completely out of my mind?