We started with the book "Build Your Own Earth Oven" by Kiko Denzer, 3rd edition, then 'made it our own'. Big stumbling block was the lack of clay here - almost only sand and sandstone, so we bought dry fire clay.
We have a lot of oak wood, but no place to use it, hated to just burn it to get rid of it, and my wife has liked this idea for a long time. It takes five to six hours to get it really hot. You use it to bake pizza, etc. first with live fire on one side, then roasting with a little less fire, then more higher heat cooking with the coals in the oven, then remove the coals and use the residual heat for several more baking's - we could probably bake three sets of bread. So it's a matter of heating once, then using for a lot of cooking. It takes two of us to keep up with preparing the food to be cooked to get the most use of the oven. Since we both like to 'play with fire', it's a lot of fun. we use the oak that would otherwise go to waste, and get a lot of really good food that can last for several days, and bread to freeze that lasts even longer. I added the smoker box to use the smoke/heat that was just going up while we were heating the oven - and it works great. I had to extend the chimney pipe that is directly above the oven door because the draw through the box was enough to force too much hot smoke into it for slow smoking. I ended up with dampers in both the vertical pipe and the pipe going to the smoker box to control the temp. We've been baking pizza in the gas grill with 'pizza stone' for years, so if we want to use gas, we'll continue to use that (a LOT faster for a quick pizza). http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own-Earth-Oven/dp/096798467X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442546266&sr=1-1&keywords=build+your+own+earth+oven On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < [email protected]> wrote: > Excellent build. Did you have plans or just have at it? I am thinking to > build one at some point. I like the smoker box. > > My buddy suggested looking into a gas fired oven as they heat up more > quickly and easier to use, you can throw some wood in to get the flavor if > you want, or just use wood. There is an outfit in Charlotte that sells a > burner you can use in any design. Makes some sense I guess if you want to > do a quick pizza without the time and hassle of the wood. How long does > yours take yo heat up with wood? > > -- > OK Don > > NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens! > > *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of > our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain > > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence > for themselves." > > WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens! *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
