Books. How to make a backyard mud oven. Cheap, fun, and makes a professional qualtity pizza! Making a backyard mud or clay oven is a great family project, and once completed, you will be able to make fantastic hearth breads, and professional quality pizza.
A mud oven is a wood burning oven, which used the residual heat from the firing to cook with. A basic backyard oven can be made for next to nothing, and will be a very satisfying project for the whole family. There will be lots of mud and squishing and stuff; and kids will definitely enjoy the process. A cob or clay oven is vastly superior to your conventional oven for pizzas and bread. The massive radiant heat that is stored in thick mud walls will deliver deep crusts to your bread, and you can keep a live fire going to make fantastic pizzas in about 3 minutes!
Cob building - when clay isn't clay (green building forum at permies) LOL - the idea of a "cob expert" telling you, "They should have sent a sample off to a lab to be sure.
" They might, however, recommend building something small as a test case. Make a few bricks. Make an earthen oven, garden wall, or chicken-house. Adjust the mix to suit local soils.
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