French wood-fired ovens manufacture since 1975
1st wood fired ovens manufacturer
Choose a true wood-fired oven: the kind built to last a lifetime. Ephrem wood-fired ovens are truly durable: our customers are the best proof of that. Highly efficient, they are renowned for their exceptional thermal mass and serve both passionate home cooks and top chefs.
Popular, the outdoor wood-fired oven is often used by individuals as a pizza oven or bread oven. But its use goes far beyond that and also fits into indoor kitchens: enjoy the versatility and true heating cycle of the best wood-fired ovens.
Discover our wood-fired oven in kit
Build an authentic wood-fired oven with our kit models. Efficient and durable, they are true masonry wood-fired ovens that retain heat for several hours after the first fire.
The Flambeur Pro 120 : The new gastronomie flame
Discover our new oven : The Flambeur Pro 120, performance and style.
With a rotating hearth version like Le Loule, or a fixed one with the Flambeurs Pro models: find the wood-fired oven that suits you.
French and natural materials
Each part of our wood-fired ovens is made from refractory earth concrete, using French, natural, high-quality raw materials. We use pozzolana for our domestic wood-fired ovens: a volcanic earth extracted in Ardèche. For our professional and baker’s wood-fired ovens, our earth concrete is made with chamotte, a clay sourced from Aquitaine. The result is a high level of refractoriness, ensuring excellent thermal mass: the heat from the wood is stored and then gradually released throughout the cooking cycle.
Why an Ephrem’s oven ?
- Wood-fired oven kits for individuals: our domestic wood-fired ovens come as kits and are ready to build, allowing you to construct your own pizza oven or bread oven. Assemble without jointing, insulate, shelter, and decorate to your taste. Choose a true traditional wood-fired oven to fully enjoy wood-fired cooking.
- Design & performance for professionals: professionals can choose between fixed professional wood-fired ovens, ready to be customized, or rotating hearth ovens. The rotary wood-fired ovens stand out with a contemporary finish, showcasing the signature style of the manufactory. Our wood-fired ovens for pizzerias or bakeries combine tradition and efficiency, thanks to their unique features praised by our customers.
- Robust & reliable: our first installed wood-fired ovens are still operating, 50 years later. Choose to build a wood-fired oven: durability and energy independence are more relevant than ever today.
- An ecological, French material 🇫🇷: our wood-fired ovens are handcrafted with unique expertise and natural French materials. They are then air-dried, without the need for high-temperature firing. The result speaks for itself: the Ephrem wood-fired oven is an ecological oven—from its manufacturing to its use.
Discover :
The best residential wood-fired ovens
L’Authentique Pizzaiolo
The most well-known Ephrem oven
- Cooking diameter : 90 cm
- Delivered with : Standard steel door
Le Gastronome
The best-equipped oven
- Cooking diameter : 90 cm
- Delivered with : Cast iron facade with double swing door
Le Carré
The easy-to-integrate oven
- Cooking diameter : 67 x 65 cm
- Delivered with : Standard steel door
Combiné L’Authentique
A generous, ready-to-build format
- Cooking diameter : 90 cm
- Delivered with : Barbecue grid & standard steel door, Siena arch
Home delivery
Made in Provence, France
Wood-fired ovens
5 year warranty
Our customer service at your disposal
Secure payment and data
3x payment without fees
The real wood-fired oven experience
Our clients speak for us, and word of mouth remains our best form of communication to this day. Our clients’ testimonials are the strongest argument, so here are a few profiles:
- Pizzeria Lo Pichotome, Forcalquier (04): good, beautiful, and organic. The motto of our ambassador Manu Barthélémy says a lot about this pizzaiolo, for whom sourdough, organic, and local are the three essential ingredients in the flavor of every dish. World Champion of Ethical Pizza in 2016 and recently featured in the 2023 Le Fooding guide, he now delights his customers with our rotating pizza oven, Le Loule. Find him on Instagram: @pichotome.
- Boulangerie L’Éco-Pain, St-Paul-sur-Ubaye (04): after a career change, Laurent Signoret trained at the EIDB (International School of Bakery) to become an artisan baker. Together with his wife Laurence, they settled in Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. They are committed to offering high-quality products made from local organic ingredients, all baked in an Ephrem Le Boulanger 4m² oven. Pay them a visit: @ecopainubayen.
- <strong>Tristan Peugeot, dedicated triathlete, Avignon (84):</strong> between family, sport, and cooking, Tristan juggles multiple passions. Yet he still takes the time to focus on quality ingredients and shares his recipes generously on social media thanks to L’Authentique Pizzaiolo, which he built himself in a box frame. Discover him here: <a href=”https://www.instagram.com/peugeot_tristan”><strong><mark class=”has-inline-color has-orange-color”>@peugeot\_tristan</mark></strong></a>.
Instaled since 1997 and still running… My Ephrem’s Artisan 110 ? A life-long oven!
Mr Pesenti, Café de la place, Fleurieu sur Saône (69)
Durable
Our wood-fired ovens are raw. Solid and well-built. With over 80,000 wood-fired ovens sold since 1975, Ephrem offers proven, flawless quality. These ovens are particularly long-lasting: our very first wood-fired ovens are still in use today. We offer a 5-year warranty on all our ovens, and a 10-year warranty on our baker’s wood-fired ovens.
Artisanal and local
We manufacture our wood-fired ovens in Haute-Provence. Everything is made in our workshops in Villeneuve (04), and our suppliers as well as our service providers are French. Our raw materials are also French: our pozzolana, the main material used in Ephrem’s domestic wood-fired ovens, is a volcanic earth from Ardèche. Chamotte, a refractory clay used for our professional wood-fired ovens, comes from Aquitaine.
Engaged
Committed for the past 3 years to a project of rehabilitation and comprehensive modernization of our operations and our production site, Les Ateliers du Lauzon, we aim to anchor our approach in sustainable innovation. With strong technical expertise focused on the environment, and ecologically responsible commitments.
Frequently asked :
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Quelle est la durée de vie d’un four à bois Ephrem ?
Les fours à bois Ephrem sont reconnus pour durer dans le temps. En investissant dans un Ephrem, vous faites le choix du dur, du solide. Nous existons depuis 1975 et nos premiers fours installés sont toujours en fonctionnement.
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Où sont fabriqués nos fours à bois ?
Nos fours à bois sont entièrement conçus dans nos ateliers de Haute Provence (Villeneuve, 04). Nous travaillons avec des matériaux français et développons le principe d’écoconception de nos produits afin de les rendre encore plus vertueux. N’hésitez pas à nous rendre visite ! Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus
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Comment bien choisir son four à bois ?
Les questions importantes à se poser pour bien choisir son four sont : est-ce pour un usage domestique, professionnel ou boulanger ? quel est mon espace ? qu’est-ce que je souhaite cuire dans le four ? combien de convives pourrais-je avoir à nourrir avec le four ? quel est mon budget ? En répondant à ces questions vous pouvez sélectionner les fours selon les dimensions minimales de la dalle porteuse, selon la dimension du four, ses capacités de cuisson et son prix. Si le doute persiste, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter.
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Comment fonctionne un four à bois Ephrem ?
Les fours en kit Ephrem sont très simples d’installation. Faites votre dalle porteuse, assemblez le four tel un Tetris, isolez-le en suivant nos recommandations puis abritez-le : le four est prêt à fonctionner. Premières chauffes : on monte progressivement en température afin d’évacuer l’humidité de l’ouvrage (voir nos conseils par ici). Après ça, il est temps de lancer les premières pizzas. Montez le four en température avec le feu au centre de la sole puis déplacez-le en fer à cheval au fond ou sur les côtés pour laisser la place d’accueillir les pizzas. En 1 à 2 minutes vos pizzas sont prêtes. Facile, non ?
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Quels sont les avantages d’un véritable four à bois ?
Un véritable four à bois est un outil de cuisson qui dure dans le temps et qui est surtout très polyvalent : à lui seul il réunit les fonctions de tous les autres équipements de cuisson outdoor. Faites cuire vos grillades en mode barbecue dans la sécurité d’un foyer fermé, saisissez vos légumes comme sur une plancha, retrouvez aussi les fonctionnalités d’un vrai kamado, la performance et l’espace en plus. Enfin, réussissez vos plus belles pizzas grâce à une cuisson parfaite et profitez d’un cycle de chauffe optimal pour cuisiner une grande variété de recettes (pains, plats mijotés, etc.).
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Le feu de bois : une alternative à l’électricité et au gaz
La cuisson au feu de bois est une cuisson économe qui vous permet d’acquérir une certaine autonomie. L’avantage de choisir l’énergie bois est en réalité multiple : économie financière vis-à-vis de la hausse du coût de l’électricité et du gaz et investissement dans des produits qui durent dans le temps. Enfin, opter pour la cuisson au feu de bois, c’est faire le choix d’une énergie verte si vous vous fournissez en bois issu de forêts durablement gérées. Sans oublier, la saveur d’une bonne pizza ou d’un pain cuit au feu de bois.
Inspiration from Ephrem
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Reconstruction of a Swiss communal ovenReconstruction of an old communal oven in Montegreco in the Valle di Blenio in Swiss. Destroy in 1927, it has been restored by Fondazione Montegreco with an Ephrem’s oven🔥
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The Combiné EssentielSylvain Pesce, CEO of Ephrem, cooking.
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L’Authentique Pizzaiolo of B. GilbertL’Authentique Pizzaiolo is featured here in a domed setup and adorned with one of our arches at B. Gilbert’s residence in Manosque (04). Thanks to its insulated door, it delights guests with delicious slow-cooked dishes made over a wood fire.
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An oven is more than just its looks.Our ovens can be adapted to a variety of finishes. Inspiration: the home of ceramicist Kelli Cain. Credits: Pia Ulin, Martha Stewart Living.
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L’Authentique PizzaioloA magnificent stone cladding with a borie-inspired style, under which our domestic wood-fired oven L’Authentique Pizzaiolo reveals its full functionality!
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Outdoor kitchenWhen the warm weather arrives, what could be better than preparing and enjoying your meals outdoors? Setting up an outdoor kitchen is the perfect solution to make the most of your garden or balcony during the summer season.
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The GastronomeThe Gastronome built in a dome shape, from a client in Romania !
