Adam has built one before, in our backyard in Stateville, NC. So I'm gonna share a few posts here that will give you an idea of what an oven like that is like. Click on any of the sentences below (in red) to find a post on that topic.
Build a foundation first
Building the fire-brick arch the right way
The first fire in the box
Finishing the facade and the pretty arch
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| four loaves of rye bread |
How do you make a door for an 800-degree oven? Not from wood!
A door solution
If
you're just desperate to read every single post about that oven, just
click on any link above, scroll down until you see the list of
"labels" on the right sidebar, and click on the first
label, "Adam's Bread Oven." There are 19 posts.
We
were sad to leave that oven behind in Statesville. But Adam hopes to
build a new oven here on our farm. This time he plans to build a cob
bread oven. This image from Google gives an idea of what it might look like:
For nightly entertainment right now, Adam and I are watching episodes of "An American Homestead," youtube videos about a family of six off-gridders in the Ozarks. This is the episode where they show the process of building their brick outdoor oven:
