Friday, 19 November 2010

Building a clay oven.

 Today we did a very nice thing. My two oldest kids did a project at school"how can we organize a pizzeria?" so the last 2 months we were busy building a clay oven. Not easy. Never done before. I got involved, even too much, so I spent a lot of free time with the kids at school. Building that oven.
The dome is ready. Inside is still filled with sand.

We built it in clay, mixed with sand, in three layers. Every layer needed drying time... But in october and November, in Belgium, there's not much drying. So we started to dry it out by firing it up, on the pic you can see we put a party tent over it.

The tent didn't make it... Beginning of November the wind decided to take it. Lost a tent, but it didn't collapse the oven.


Heating up to +325°C
Then we fired it up to do the real thing, bake pizza's in it. It was amazing. We reached a temperature insite beyond measurement (I had 2 thermometers, one going up to 300 °C, the other, an infrared, to 325°C Both went off limits.)



Three minutes baking time, slightly burned at the bottom and sides, but delicious.... I was tired as hell, after 6 hours of baking and 80 pizza's later. The whole school had pizza.


This was a project that will last long in the memories, I'm sure. Check out the building plans at:  clayoven.wordpress.com
I will set up a blog on wordpress with more pict on this. I'll keep you posted.


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16 comments:

  1. CAE.IIFriday, 19 November, 2010

    That is so cool! I bet the pizza tasted awesome! I can't beleive you guys built that, those pics are awesome!!

    Awesome job, and great post! Thanks for sharing! (:

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  2. VelkonFriday, 19 November, 2010

    :) go get some marshmallows!! :P pizza would burn in that oven

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  3. AnonymousSaturday, 20 November, 2010

    that is realy awesome! i want this too!!

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  4. enzoSaturday, 20 November, 2010

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  5. kushmanSaturday, 20 November, 2010

    I bet the pizza tasted awesome! It looks like that oven was a lot of work, but very well worth it!

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  6. Sam PeckSaturday, 20 November, 2010

    this looks unsafe to have around kids.

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  7. AnonymousSaturday, 20 November, 2010

    Hehehe, my grandfather built a house with clay, and it's still alive. I think I like clay. Good post, bro =) take a look to mine =)

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  8. enzoSaturday, 20 November, 2010

    awww my post got removed! :(

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  9. AKIBA-POP!Saturday, 20 November, 2010

    6 hours of baking and 80 pizza's?! Seems like hard work, but it's awesome.

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  10. David DavidsonSaturday, 20 November, 2010

    Holy shit that's awesome. I wish I could have done this kind of stuff in Elementary.

    Well done man!

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  11. jeremySaturday, 20 November, 2010

    dude i might actually make one hahahaha i was thinking about making one

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  12. Come At Me BroSaturday, 20 November, 2010

    I need pizza!

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  13. TeutorixSunday, 21 November, 2010

    the oven is great but... did you make pizza?

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  14. AnonymousSunday, 21 November, 2010

    amazing heat there

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  15. OmiSunday, 21 November, 2010

    Oh wow, that's really cool! I wish I did that as a kid

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  16. AmbercladMonday, 22 November, 2010

    whoa i think i'll build such a thing next summer :D

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