Wednesday, June 10, 2009

There's an Oven in our backyard!







Beautiful! We finished up on Monday, capping off the top with drain slot, adding the marble shelves, and grout to the tiles. We of course had the inaugural fire and pizza, but as you can see the oven was not quite hot enough to burn off all the soot from the inside of the dome. There was still a lot of moisture in the fire bricks to dry out. Around 600 degrees will be a good start for the next firing! I just need to build some sort of door for baking bread. The party will be sometime after the STP ride in July, weekend of the 19th? Got any hardwood.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

An inch from the finish!




Monday we will fire up the oven so that the dome and insulation layer on top can expand a bit, then we will pour the concrete cap to seal the top. There is about three bags of perlite 4 cu. ft. ea mixed with portland cement and filled in around the dome as insulation. Got anything to roast?