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Business Ovens in Minnesota and Nearby

A-to-Z Produce

Stockholm, Wisconsin

It’s now a pair of ovens based on Alan Scott’s design. (The new oven is to the right of the one in this picture.)

According to one Stockholm resident, on a busy summer night, they turn out 300 pizzas.

They only make pizzas on Tuesday nights. In 2008, they will stop making pizza on November 18 and resume making pizza “sometime in the spring of 2009.”

The Bread Club went there on a field trip in 2004. At Wednesday noon the oven has cooled enough so that it can be used to bake bread.

Brick Oven Bakery

630 Professional Drive, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, 507-645-9517

The Brick Oven Bakery was the destination for an SPBC field trip. People along for the trip heard how the oven was originally fired with wood, but because of the lack of convenience it was converted to electric heat. It is still a retained heat oven, but the heat comes from electricity instead of burning wood.

Subsequent communications revealed that it is an Alan Scott design with a hearth size of 56 inches by 72 inches (almost 5 feet by 6 feet) built in 1996.

Nelson Stone Barn

Nelson, Wisconsin

The Nelson Stone Barn is open seasonally (early April to early October).

According to the man behind the bar that I talked to, they make between 40 and 100 pizzas a night.

According to their web site: “Hours to the general public: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 5pm – 9pm.” So, they are open more days, but fewer months, than A-to-Z Produce.

Round Barn Farm Bed and Breakfast

Red Wing, Minnesota

The Round Barn Farm Bed & Breakfast & Bread in Red Wing, Minnesota has a brick oven.

The oven is built into the oldest structure on the farm, a smoke house. It is easily big enough to hold a half-dozen artisan loaves of bread.

According to what I was told when my wife and I stayed there, their health department inspector requires that only guests in the B&B&B bake in the oven.

Other Businesses Nearby

There are other businesses that we believe have brick ovens, but we don’t have pictures of their ovens.

• Bascali’s Brick Oven (brick ovens that were imported from Modena, Italy)
• Bricks Neapolitan Pizza (Hudson, WI)
• Lakewinds Natural Foods (Minnetonka)
• Punch Neapolitan Pizza (all locations)
• Roman Market (Willernie, MN)
• Turtle Bread Company (Chicago Ave., Minneapolis)

Other Businesses of Interest

Eve MacLeish’s Brick Oven

Merida, Venezuela

Eve has an oven, but not in this country. She uses it as part of a commercial bakery.