Small outdoor stone or brick oven.

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Hello! I would like to find any information on building a small stone or brick oven. I have found large indoor models but very little on small outdoor. Any information would be helpful. Thank You! P.S. We recently built a solar oven and love it. I wish we would have had one years ago!

-- Christy (jbrown@ecinet2000.com), September 18, 1999

Answers

Go to: http://forums.cosmoaccess.net/forum/survival/prep for a plan on how to build it.

-- Guy Winton III (guyiii@home.com), September 18, 1999.

The above site address may not be correct but it will help you find the site. Here is the address again, hope it's more correct. The oven looked very doable, I even printed a copy.

http://forums.cosmoaccess.net/forum/survival/prep/stove.htm

Good luck.

-- Kathy (redfernfarm@lisco.com), September 21, 1999.


Don't know a whole lot about building outdoor ovens but wanted to share a insulation concept I first learned while building a "rocket stove". Seems that screened wood ash makes an excellent insulator thereby contributing to the overall efficiency of any stove. If you were not convinced, think about retrieving coals 36hrs old from your wood stove to start a new fire! :) For my first metal melting furnace (used for smelting non-ferrous metals for hobby castings),I used 2 clay flower pots stacked top-to-top for a firing chamber. Made two holes in chamber, 1 for the firing tube at bottom and a larger one at top of chamber (former pot base) for the exhaust. I put this whole settup in an old shopvac metal container then filled the space between the two with ash. I fire mine with auto junkyard gas and reach temperatures high enough to melt glass (@least 2,600F) but can still hold my hand to outside container! If you wish to try this for your stove, I suggest you build a support form of wood then cover it in cob as your inner chamber and let dry. Next build the outside layer spaced 2-3 inches larger than inner, filling the space between the two with ash as you build. (except at openings for firing, baking, & exhaust. Experiment around a little! Try incorporating a 5 gallon metal paint can or something simular as a baking chamber. regards, William

-- William Dysinger (william_dysinger@usa.net), January 29, 2001.

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