deciding how high to make your oven is a mix of science and feel – you want to be comfortable, using the oven without hunching over cooking or managing the fire. this can be challenging if there are different height cooks. 

wood fired oven height really depends on the size of the user – taller cooks find a higher oven is more comfortable and the opposite for shorter folks. WE WILL PROVIDE SOME REFERENCE DATA HERE BUT ULTIMATELY HOW YOUR OVEN LOOKS IS UP TO YOUR PREFERENCE.

as shown below, our opinion is that building your counter to accommodate somewhere around a 44″ inch oven floor height works out best for the majority of installations.  

here are some recommendations/observations when it comes to planning how high you want your oven.  we like to talk/think in oven floor height as the most critical factor.  The following oven floor height is in relation to cook height and ability to see into the back of the oven comfortably:

oven floor height of 40″:

5’4″ cook: ok

5’9″ cook: ok

6’3″ cook: oven may be too low

oven floor height of 44″ 

5’4″ COOK: OK

5’9″ COOK: OK

6’3″ COOK: ok

oven floor height of 48″