The oven has been insulated (but not with as much perlite as I had wanted) and stuccoed with surface bonding cement. The next step is to make a fire door and a bake door, but the oven is now ready for pizza and all kinds of flat breads.
I enjoy your blog, thanks. It look to me the oven at the pond is a straight cylinder, i.e. the opening is the same height and width as the dome. Is it so? If yes - how will it work. I read everywhere, that the opening has to .63 of the dome height and about .5 of the dome width (at least for round/oval ones).
My fire door which I will soon build will constrict the heat in the oven so that I won't lose so much of it. The .63 percent rule comes from "The Bread Ovens Of Quebec and that works quite well for loaf breads, but if you're making flat breads primarily, then I would suggest an opening a little higher and wider.
Bread First is a book for beginners. Everything a beginner needs to know can be found here. You can expect to bake great bread the first time. The process is simple, and the ingredients are readily available. "No knead" baking is for everyone. No experience is required. Clear instructions with photos make everything extra easy.
Bread Earth And Fire: Earth Ovens And Artisan Breads
For the past couple of years I've been revising my book, Bread Earth And Fire. I've added the subtitle Earth Ovens And Artisan Breads because I feel this more fully explains what the book is about. Along with the photos, you'll now find drawings that better illustrate the oven building process, new ovens to build as well a history of bread from the "beginning of time."
Bread Earth And Fire: Earth Ovens And Artisan Breads is available as an ebook or print copy from Lulu.
Amazon's Createspace carries a print copy of the book.
Stu's Art Gallery
Dead River Rough Cut (the movie)
Walt feeds gorby bird. Most requested movie at the Maine State Prison
Dead River Rough Cut
For information about Stu Silverstein's and Richard Searls' backwoods movie, go to: www.deadriverroughcut.com.
I write about bread and wood-fired bread ovens. Sourdough bread baking is my specialty. While the dough is rising I have time to make art, lots of art. Each winter I travel to Guatemala to build energy efficient stoves for the Mayas.
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Stuart,
I enjoy your blog, thanks.
It look to me the oven at the pond is a straight cylinder, i.e. the opening is the same height and width as the dome. Is it so? If yes - how will it work. I read everywhere, that the opening has to .63 of the dome height and about .5 of the dome width (at least for round/oval ones).
My fire door which I will soon build will constrict the heat in the oven so that I won't lose so much of it. The .63 percent rule comes from "The Bread Ovens Of Quebec and that works quite well for loaf breads, but if you're making flat breads primarily, then I would suggest an opening a little higher and wider.
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