[Sca-cooks] Groovy Camp oven

[Huette von Ahrens]

You can purchase terra cotta ovens on carts/wheels but they are very expensive, like $1900. See here:

http://www.surlatable.com/product/handcrafted+terra+cotta+oven.do?search=basic&keyword=oven&sortby=gsa&asc=true&page=1

Huette

--- On Tue, 7/1/08, Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Groovy Camp oven
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 1:15 PM
> Dragon wrote:
> > Michael Gunter wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, if we are throwing period cooking utensils
> to the
> >> wind and just looking for convenient camp cooking
> >> stuff, check this out!
> >>
> >>
> http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=421617
> >>
> >> Man, I want that.
> > ---------------- End original message.
> ---------------------
> >
> > Eh, personally I'll pass on that. I have yet to
> find something I can't 
> > bake in a sufficiently sized cast iron Dutch oven with
> an appropriate 
> > supply of hot coals available.
> >
> > My ultimate goal for an upcoming war is to build and
> operate a 
> > temporary on-site brick bread oven. Now that would
> rock. Which war and 
> > when is still up in the air right now.
> 
> 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.
> 
> You ought to see the community ovens they run at Estrella. 
> Next time I 
> go, I want to hang out there.
> 
> 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!
> 
> Selene
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