Earth Oven

Potters build an Earth Oven

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• bread
• Clay-oven
• pizza

[otahuna]

ISBN: 0967984602 (pbk.) You certainly can cook in this oven, especially good for bread, pizzas when it is very hot and then other dishes as it slowly cools.

Averil

[owly57]

Fantastic effort guys... what is the name of the music playing? I remember it as the soundtrack for a TV show called The Onedin line...

[otahuna]

@owly57 Thanks for your comments, the music is, Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia by Khachaturian. Apologies for the delay in replying. Averil

[ferdydek]

We are planing to make our first cob oven next spring, however we don't want to put any roof over it. Do you think adding some oil, water seal or even glazing the final layer would do the trick?

[otahuna]

@ferdydek. It is a lot of work to put in to make the oven so we considered it best to cover it to stop rain disolving the unfired layers. You can but try with an oil or water seal but if you mean by glazing, using a pottery glaze, the temperatures reached on the exterior of the oven are not sufficient to melt it. Best wishes, Averil

[ferdydek]

@otahuna I'm living in Portugal, since May till August there is almost no rain, and for protection of rain during building we would put a plastic cover on it. I was thinking to take a welding torch and melt the exterior layer from outside, my concern is if the external layer gets many cracks over time that would sugest that heat might create cracks in glazing ... Thanks !!!!

[otahuna]

@ferdydek I think I would be trying the melting of the exterior layer on a small test piece before doing it to the oven. Unless the whole oven is thorougly dry it might well explode off in pieces. This is what happens to clay in a kiln if it is subjected to fast increases in heat especially if it is not completely dry. Best of luck!. Averil

[willgoodwin15]

@2.16 "Hey Pattie,thats a nice fat ass"!!! :P

[avgurim]

hi,

at 0:35 the serious looking lady makes a stern moment of the mold making!!

is she the earth oven accuracy supervisor???

(-:

good job there, great vid,

thanks! Aavgurim

[MorpheusWasRight]

how do you cook? rap a potato up in tinfoil?

[theadvicemonkey]

Do you have the ISBN number for that book? Can you cook in this?