[Sca-cooks] clay for ovens
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sun Oct 9 22:00:12 PDT 2005
Meva matbúðarkona volunteered:
> Count me in for such a workshop. I live south of Seattle in Olympia,
> WA. I could also volunteer my backyard for building a bake oven.
> We have thespace and a lot of rocks and clay (in some parts it is
> about 12 inches to a thick grey clay!)
Have you actually tried to use this grey clay? I don't know the
details but apparently not all clay is fine for making ovens. The
clay at Pennsic seems to be fine as a number of folks have made them
there, as well as things like smelters. The following is an
interesting story about gathering clay at Pennsic.
P-tale-MWIFO-art (23K) 8/26/96 Making Wrought Iron from Ore at
Pennsic 24.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PENNSIC/P-tale-MWIFO-art.html
However, when the Early Period Encampment tried to make an oven with
the local clay at Gulf Wars, it wanted to crack. I don't know if they
brought in more clay from the outside the next year or whether they
added something to the clay to make it hold together better.
> (we have a brick and stone one mass oven in the works - it's on the 3
> year plan.....)
So, why brick *and* stone? How big do you plan for it to be? Are you
going to use mortar or clay/mud?
Stefan
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