I made a brick bread oven using this guy's plans:
http://www.ovencrafters.net/
Some libraries have the book on the shelves, others can get it for you if you have a request system.
Mine ended up being a hybrid using his ideas but I used clay cement stucco exterior instead.
In retrospect I'd do the following different:
1.Build smaller-you get an amazing amount of food from one firing. My interior was 2 1/2' x 3' and just too big. You can cook one thing after another as the temperature slowly drops and even leave casseroles in overnight.
2.Cover my painted clay cement stucco with a roof or some protection. Our winters pitted it badly causing crumbling.
3.Build in a thermometer that goes to 700+ degrees.
4. Build it counter height- the bending gets tedious.
We built it for Y2K for about $60 by understanding his principles and changing where we could. Our purchases were a bag of cement, concrete blocks, firebrick and a small piece of concrete mesh to form the ceiling.
It makes the best french baguettes and pizza. One firing would bake enough bread for a month and freeze.
http://www.ovencrafters.net/
Some libraries have the book on the shelves, others can get it for you if you have a request system.
Mine ended up being a hybrid using his ideas but I used clay cement stucco exterior instead.
In retrospect I'd do the following different:
1.Build smaller-you get an amazing amount of food from one firing. My interior was 2 1/2' x 3' and just too big. You can cook one thing after another as the temperature slowly drops and even leave casseroles in overnight.
2.Cover my painted clay cement stucco with a roof or some protection. Our winters pitted it badly causing crumbling.
3.Build in a thermometer that goes to 700+ degrees.
4. Build it counter height- the bending gets tedious.
We built it for Y2K for about $60 by understanding his principles and changing where we could. Our purchases were a bag of cement, concrete blocks, firebrick and a small piece of concrete mesh to form the ceiling.
It makes the best french baguettes and pizza. One firing would bake enough bread for a month and freeze.
