Chip's 42 in Minnesota

[ggoose]

Re: Chip's 42 in Minnesota

The bread is definitely better looking that the baker

Where did you find your bread recipes?

gene

[mrchipster]

Re: Chip's 42 in Minnesota

Bread from last night.

Trying to do smaller batches as we cannot eat 7 loaves of bread before they get stale.

Placed a couple of hand fulls of lava rock into a bowl and put it in the oven an hour before bread bake. Put 6 oz of water on the lava rock just after putting in the bread. Oven was a little cool for bread 385F but it still baked up nice.

As you can see I am very happy with the result.

Chip

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[mrchipster]

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Baked some cookies "Snookerdoodles" two nights ago. Did some in the WFO and some in the home oven, Both on cookie sheets with parchment. The ones in the WFO were at about 525 dome temp for 8 minutes and the home gas oven 425 for 12 minutes - per recipe.

The first photo shows them midway thru the baking cycle in the WFO (looking thru my new door).

the next photos are WFO in front and Home oven in back.

Noticeable color and rise difference.

Next Thicker ones are WFO and thinner home oven. The WFO cookies were noticeably cakeier inside and crisper outside.

My wife was concerned about doing cookies and pies in the WFO and now is sold in a big way.

Chip

[mrchipster]

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Yumm! Taters look great.

Any concerns about thermal shock on the cast iron going form zero to seven hundred, as it were. Or did you preheat the cast iron a little?

-hoob

No preheat. it seems to tolerate it, I think the food tempers the heat change.

Chip

[Hoobie]

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Yumm! Taters look great.

Any concerns about thermal shock on the cast iron going form zero to seven hundred, as it were. Or did you preheat the cast iron a little?

-hoob

[mrchipster]

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I did some live fire cooking last night of ground beef meat loaf and baby red potatoes cut into quarters. Oven dome about 750 and floor 700.
Potatoes were drizzled with coconut oil (stands up to heat well), both were cooked on cast iron.

Another great meal.

Chip

[mrchipster]

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Nice oven...Just finished mine. need to work on door. I was recently in Minneapolis a few weeks ago for a Fierek wedding.

Next time you schedule a trip here give me a heads up maybe we can get together. I do not get to Indiana much but if I do I will send you a note.

Take a look at my two doors they work well. The 4 inch one is heavy but it does keep the heat in. I will be building a decorative weather door that will also function as a blast door sometime soon, no insulation just variable vent near the bottom and decorative brass handles is what I have in mind. I picked up an old brass bed and think I will use pieces of that for decorative handles, kind of like brass andirons for a fireplace, but mounted to the door.

We will see how it finally turns out.

Chip

[mrchipster]

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One more simple update, The grass has riz and the San Marzanos are in full production on top of the curved wall. Still need a hand rail going to pool deck and some finer details but I think things are shaping up; just in time for winter.

I added some weatherproof speakers under the eaves so I can listen to music while I work.

Chip

[mrchipster]

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PS - the bread looks fantastic@

And it tasted great too.

Chip

[MAD1]

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Nice oven...Just finished mine. need to work on door. I was recently in Minneapolis a few weeks ago for a Fierek wedding.

[Hoobie]

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D'Oh!

I was looking at your 'Join Date' of April 2010, not the current dates for your recent posts. My bad.

I like that you've incorporated your oven as part of what looks like a pretty massive landscaping project. No wonder you've still got some detail work to finish. Who wouldn't?

I haven't made it up to Minneapolis for a couple years, but when next I do, I'd love to drop by. I'll keep that in mind as I'm planning my build this winter

Best,

-hoobie

PS - the bread looks fantastic@

[mrchipster]

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Hi, Chip.

I'm in the initial stages of planning an oven and wanted to say I really appreciate and admire all the work you've done here - both on the oven itself and on this thread. Definitely, this is information that I'll be using as I go along!

It looks like it's been a couple few years since construction finished. Any developments to share after using your great outdoor kitchen for a while?

Thanks,

-hoobie

If you get to the Minneapolis area you need to stop by.

Hi and thanks for your kind words, as a mater of fact have not quite reached a year of cooking, Oct 13 will be the official anniversary date of cooking.

Funny you should say since I finished my oven. As with many on this forum I am still working on the finishing details and was cutting the granite slab for the prep table earlier today. Picked it up off Craigslist for $175

I still have a little brick work to do on the back side and also my entry to the oven still needs detailing.

I hope to set the granite tonight. But it will require 3 more strong guys so I will see if I can line them up.

I made up some nice batards today nice crust and crumb, 3 day cold ferment with 4 stretch and folds. The port hole door worked fantastic for viewing the bread as it cooked.

See the attached photos

Chip

[Hoobie]

Re: Chip's 42 in Minnesota

Hi, Chip.

I'm in the initial stages of planning an oven and wanted to say I really appreciate and admire all the work you've done here - both on the oven itself and on this thread. Definitely, this is information that I'll be using as I go along!

It looks like it's been a couple few years since construction finished. Any developments to share after using your great outdoor kitchen for a while?

Thanks,

-hoobie

[mrchipster]

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Did a few rolls from the left over dough from the 2 weekend pizza parties we had.

The floor of the oven was still a little to hot and I needed to take them out a little earlier than I wanted.

But using the window door allowed me to determine this without opening the door.

Successful flavor and nice texture. Not cut deep enough to get a nice rip.

Chip

[mrchipster]

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Thermometer down.

Well the door with the window had it's first failure.

The very fragile thermometer i had in the window got bent due to high winds; the door tipped over with the thermometer in place and bent the probe.

I will now be mounting a more heavy duty thermometer in the body of the door.

Back to the decorative nautical theme idea for filling the hole in the glass.

Chip