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| The start of our oven. |
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| Walls mostly completed. |
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| Starting to balance the roof. |
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| Building the fire. Using grass and matches. Much harder than lighter fluid and a lighter. |
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| Bags 'o Beer Scum. And their lovely creator. |
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| A skull. Things you find in the forest while looking for sticks and dirt. |
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| Heating the water to add the barm to. |
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| Kneading the dough. |
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| First batch of bread, into the oven. |
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| The other bag of barm. |
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| It's a bun in the oven. Shortly after this, we discover our failure. There isn't a picture of that though. |
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| Mud. |
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| Lots of mud. |
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| Our good Samaritan. Piling cans of ash on the oven for better insulation. |
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| Starting to re-fire our baby. |
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| Grass. And logs to keep it from blowing away. |
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| The bread, the book, the axe. |
Very interesting. How long would it take to build an oven like this one ? How long would it last with the mud ? Days ? weeks ?
ReplyDeleteTotal construction time was pretty low. An hour maybe? With the mud, you would have to refresh it a fair bit. Had we access to clay, (which would have been much better) we would have used clay, and that would have lasted a lot longer.
ReplyDeleteAs to how long this would have lasted if we hadn't had to take it down? I have no idea. ;)