Earth Oven Drying Nicely

[wardj2010]

Just to share - used to think that these were all a bit too 'new earth hippy' but having been forced to use one during our trip to Sierra Nevada to cook chicken and pork just had to have one - can't figure out how to transport it though?

 

[vwalan]

ideal for cooking children in .
make sure you have a lock on the door .ha ha .

 

[magicsurfbus]

Presumably you could make one in situ as long as you had the right type of clay mixture (fire clay plus other bits?). Moving a large ceramic item like that would be a bloody nightmare.

 

[wardj2010]

vwalan - I do like children, couldn't eat a whole one though!

 

[vwalan]

we do here in cornwall. hee hee.
i had a mum ask me why i can get the local kids to sit quiet in a row crossed legs with their hands making a pointed slope above their heads .
i said its the tagine game . (morocco cooking . )
last one to stay quiet wins . first one to speak gets cooked in a tagine .
the kids love it .
they also play kneeling down with their hands by their ankles .
thats the roast chicken game .
if i get a broom handle out of the shed they run away . they dont like playing the spit roast game . ha ha .
she said i was cruel and shouldnt tell the kids we will eat them .
strange when my grand kids are here i always have a yard full of kids .
they tell me their parents dont play good games like this .
by the way have had lots of real nice morocan flat bread cooked in ovens like that one

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[Momo]

The roast lamb done in a clay oven is to die for!!

 

[Wildbill]

must have cost a fortune for the clay ?

 

[makems]

must have cost a fortune for the clay ?

I've got a garden full of it. Anybody wants some, come and get it!

 

[Wildbill]

can you use them for pizzas to

 

[DBK]

can you use them for pizzas to

They are the classic pizza oven - cook in a few minutes.

I would love one but don't really have the space in our new mini-garden.

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[DBK]

Just to share - used to think that these were all a bit too 'new earth hippy' but having been forced to use one during our trip to Sierra Nevada to cook chicken and pork just had to have one - can't figure out how to transport it though?

Did you mold it over a dome of sand with a fire brick floor? Did the clay not crank as it dried?

I'm interested to hear the details of how you made it.

 

[gus-lopez]

Presumably you could make one in situ as long as you had the right type of clay mixture (fire clay plus other bits?). Moving a large ceramic item like that would be a bloody nightmare.

All the old places around here usually have one. Mine used to. Most are mad using the clay earth along with straw ,etc; just as my house is built from Adobe bricks.

 

[jockaneezer]

I built one in my garden about 6 years ago. Cost me about £30 as I used recycled timber from work, fire bricks from old storage heaters and clay from the river behind our house. It cooks a pizza in about 90 seconds and the taste surpasses anything you will have tasted this side of Napoli ! My son has cooked chicken and venison in it and I dried a load of tomatoes from my greenhouse using the stored up heat the day after a pizza party.
There is a book called "Build Your Own Earth Oven" by a guy called Kiko Denzer, available on Amazon for £5.85 which will guide you through the process, well worth a read if you're contemplating one, and as for space, you can make it any size you want to suit your garden.

 

[Wildman]

lots of how to build vids on youtube. Built on a stand of bricks would have saved your back though.

 

[Wildbill]

any up dates on it first firing results
bill

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[Wildbill]

They are the classic pizza oven - cook in a few minutes.

I would love one but don't really have the space in our new mini-garden.

you can make them any size you want sume one I know has made one from a coal fire back and a sand stone slab plastered over with fire cement and quarry tiles and on a steel table on casters so he can put in any whar he wants
bill

 

[tofo]

in cyprus a few years back
saw one built on a wheelbarrow

 

[wardj2010]

jockaneezer has pretty much covered it - could not source SH fire bricks so bought new at £2 each but standard building bricks can be used - I followed Kiko Denzer online info by having inner clay/sand layer with external cobb insulating layer - as mentioned we have a terraced garden so just chose a tier and levelled a 4ft patch - my oven is 24 inch id followed online info for ratios
With the rubbish weather at present drying is slow - I do not want to hurry it too much and risk excessive cracks, although cracking seems to be the norm? - will post when first lighting
Trouble is with all the online stuff, you never know how it really turned out

 

[Wildbill]

this is the one I am making

 

[Momo]

Looking good Bill! How will you remove the wooden arching?

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[Wildbill]

Looking good Bill! How will you remove the wooden arching?

burn it out on first firing se her @Momo
http://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/threads/our-home-work-project.108513/page-2#post-1424935
bill