[Sca-cooks] Groovy Camp oven
Dragon
dragon at crimson-dragon.com
Tue Jul 1 13:29:12 PDT 2008
Susan Fox wrote:
>We ought to make one on wheels, like we keep seeing in period woodcuts.
>Uhhh, like this. <http://www.godecookery.com/afeast/kitchens/kit010.html>
>Transporting it would be a bear, but possible with a trailer.
True all that. Also depends on exactly how big you make it and what
you make it from. There are ways to make it much lighter using
vermiculite or kao-wool fill to insulate it.
>You ought to see the community ovens they run at Estrella. Next
>time I go, I want to hang out there.
I've heard about that. I need to get to Estrella, I still have not
been to it. I wanted to go this year but I had been so incredibly
sick I could not even get out of bed a few weeks before and burned
all my vacation time I had saved.
>I'm building a permanent brick bread oven in the new place actually.
>There's this half-finished brick BBQ that would convert pretty easily;
>just fill in the hollow inside, pour a slab then start building the
>dome. Booyah!
Spiffy. I want to do the same at my place but I am starting from
nothing, you at least have a head start.
I highly recommend getting refractory brick for the firebox, don't
use common red brick. The refractory is more expensive but will last
a LOT longer. You would be replacing the common brick in just a few
years if you fired the oven regularly. Common brick is fine for
everything else, the outside facing and any other part of the oven.
I also highly recommend this book if you are serious about this:
The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens by Daniel Wing
and Alan Scott
ISBN: 978-1890132057
http://www.amazon.com/Bread-Builders-Hearth-Loaves-Masonry/dp/1890132055/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214944001&sr=8-1
Dragon
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