My great grand parents built a house in Corsica in 1906.
They had a little convenient store in the village and outside in the shed they had a big bread oven.
When I was a kid I saw my grand father use it to burn papers and cardboard packaging.
A couple of years ago, the dome collapsed.
We started removing the firebricks. Some of the bonding material was still attached to the brick. It came off easily with a trowel. It felt like it was dried mud, very crumbly.
The width of the oven was approximately 8 feet, and the height could have been around 30in.
I took some pictures of what's left.
I plan to build a 42" pompeii when I get a chance.
Ultimately I would have liked to rebuild the original oven just the way it was, but I don't think cooking pizzas in a 8 feet oven is practical.
I will post pictures of another oven still intact in another thread.
They had a little convenient store in the village and outside in the shed they had a big bread oven.
When I was a kid I saw my grand father use it to burn papers and cardboard packaging.
A couple of years ago, the dome collapsed.
We started removing the firebricks. Some of the bonding material was still attached to the brick. It came off easily with a trowel. It felt like it was dried mud, very crumbly.
The width of the oven was approximately 8 feet, and the height could have been around 30in.
I took some pictures of what's left.
I plan to build a 42" pompeii when I get a chance.
Ultimately I would have liked to rebuild the original oven just the way it was, but I don't think cooking pizzas in a 8 feet oven is practical.
I will post pictures of another oven still intact in another thread.
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