The summer holidays are over and I'm back in work so my blogging & baking hasn't been as regular as before.
As requested a picture of the clay oven hubby made. He was inspired by a pizza oven Hugh F-W made on one of his TV progs. The clay was from his fathers garden, was left to dry for a day, then he lit a fire inside to completely dry the clay. To cook he then lit another fire in it, let the flames die down to embers, pushed the embers to the sides, places the bread dough in then put a piece of wood up agains
t the hole to keep the heat in.
t the hole to keep the heat in. It cooked really good bread and new potatoes. Our neighbour was so impressed he now wants to build one!
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That looks impressive :)
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness! Now he has built one oven, perhaps he would like to try his hand at building one for me!
ReplyDeleteI really want one of these, it looks really brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting these pictures, I was wondering what it looked like - and it looks great!
ReplyDeleteWhat holds this thing up??? Is there a wire frame or something??? Clever husband you have!!! Vida
ReplyDeletevida - He put a few pieces of wood in it to support it when it was drying, but before lighting it he took the wood out. Apart from that nothing is holding it up. Unfortunately the clay oven collapsed after heavy rainfall last week :(
ReplyDeleteyou are supposed to fill with sand and damp newspaper aint you when building this aint you?... then let dry and remove sand etc after????
ReplyDeleteMathewmadin - Hubby used a slightly different method. Because it was quite a bit smaller compared to the ones that Hugh F-W made, he got away with this method.
ReplyDeleteHubby is planning on making a bigger one this summer and will use the sand method.
This looks awesome. I'm inspired and can't wait to build one for myself!
ReplyDeleteNice little oven there. I went on the River Cottage make and bake course and have now built my own. I have written a blog to show people how to do it if you are interested. Cheers, Simon
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