Outdoor Cob Oven

I have poured over different designs online and am using the 20 cob oven design with some twists.

Outdoor cob oven.

For the uninitiated cob is a combination of clay sand straw and water when dry cob is extremely hard and durable and highly capable of storing heat given enough insulation. The bigger the oven the more heat it holds and the larger pizzas you can fit into it. The cob oven project. I am building an outdoor oven for cooking and baking in the garden.

Then when the oven has dried you scoop the sand out which creates the oven cavity. As you can see there s a cavity in the middle of the oven just like a regular oven. In order to get this cavity you build your cob oven around a pile of sand. One is to make a mold of sand upon which the oven is built and after which the sand is removed through the oven door.

The smallest cob oven interior size that we ve heard of is 16 floor diameter. Dave and robin make pizza and bread in their oven which they built themselves using an ancient eco friendly natural green environmentally safe construction technique. This 20 cob oven article has been the most popular entry on my website since i originally posted it it s been 5 years since i wrote it and we ve made significant improvements to the original design resulting in a much better outdoor pizza oven. Examples of pure cob and adobe and refractory castable cement over bricks.

To design my own diy oven i read about construction in beth gilgun s book tidings from the eighteenth century and kiko denzer s build your own earth oven. Diy outdoor kitchen pizza oven how to build an outdoor pizza oven using clay sand adobe straw cob. I dug into the slope and to my surprise found red clay underneath 2 feet of topsoil. Summerset the oven outdoor large capacity gas oven with pizza stone and smoker box 304 stainless steel construction 27.

The better outdoor pizza oven plans. According to cob oven experts there are four key mathematical ratios involved in cob oven construction that help ensure that the fire burns well and heats the floor walls and ceiling efficiently and evenly. There are two common ways of building cob ovens. Any smaller and you won t have good heating.

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