Outdoor Wood-fired Baking Oven Plan?

[sjdehner]

Hello!

We're wondering if anyone's built an outdoor wood-fired bake oven - or has plans for one. If you've got any pictures that would be great!

Thanks,

Shawn & Jamie

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Mother Earth News magazine ran a plan for one a few years back.  Go to their website and use the search engine to go through their archives.  You might also try Backwoods Home.

[pagan]

Kiko Denzer has a great book on this.

http://www.southtownsounds.com/kikodenzer.html

[NM_Shooter]

Here's another link.  I've never tried one, but I think it would be fun...

http://www.ca-missions.org/mccummins.html

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

This is one of those things on my list of things I'd like to do one of these days, of course that being after it finally quits raining and dries up and we can finish the chicken house and so forth.

[pagan]

Dig a well, plumb the house, build a bathroom, build a barn, fix the driveway....right there with you Homegrown.

[Ernest T. Bass]

Here's some alternative ideas: http://weblife.org/capturing_heat/

Mom wants the rocket bread oven...

[Redoverfarm]

Someone post either a site or the picture of one on CP.  Might try a search.

[Redoverfarm]

Here is a couple sites mentioned on CP

http://heatkit.com/html/bakeoven.htm

http://www.orchardovens.co.uk/gallery.html

[glenn kangiser]

Make mud.

[Ernest T. Bass]

That's an awesome oven Glenn (if you like cats, that is... ). Does that also have the concrete sealer on it?

[glenn kangiser]

Yes - it has a coat of Concrete cure and seal to make it shiny.  Clay ovens should be protected by a roof.

30%clay 70% sand and aggregate including any in the clay.  Straw to have it well mixed throughout the clay (actually cob)

The cat simply was the shape that emerged from the mud-- you'd be surprised what you find in a good batch of mud.

It was patterned after a very cool cat named Bandit - a Siamese mix.  The cat who loves me now is a pretty poor excuse for a cat but very loyal....

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

It looks like fun to build, and goodness knows that we have enough clay around here to build one.  However, I have a three page list of stuff that we have to do to the house before we can do extras like that (ok, so I might have actually knocked one or two of the things off the list by now, but there are other priorities before I can get to it.)  The cat looks like he should be wearing shades.  But from the pic, I'm not sure where the smoke escapes, etc... assuming that the opening in the front is the "oven", do you build the fire directly in the oven?

[glenn kangiser]

Since this one was to cover a rock in the front porch area I couldn't leave it like a true clay oven with no or little vent so the smoke goes out a buried stovepipe behind the back of its head.