Continued Design Ideas

[SCChris]

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When Angus's time is at hand, remember Coq au Vin in the WFO, Angus will again make you proud!

Chris

[Aegis]

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I think I'm finished (famous last words). Here's a couple of pics.
Craig

Great Job! And you have just begun on a culinary experience of a lifetime!
Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy! You have earned it!
Beautiful Oven!
John

[Lonestar]

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I've been curing the oven this past week, today being the last curing. I also started adding another layer of perlcrete that you can see steaming in the photo.

To the OP, i know this is an older thread, but very informative. I too am fixing to build a barrel style brick oven, and was wondering where you got the 3 pieces in your front opening. That looks like precast firebrick of some sort??

[UtahBeehiver]

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I do not know if Clofgreen has seen this but I got the same surplus brick he did and they came from a old steel mill, now defunct, there were several builds in Ut that used this brick. I never needed the arch type bricks but used others from the mill. Last time I was there to pick up a few more bricks these arch bricks were gone (this Summer).

[clofgreen]

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Beehiver is right. It came from a cache of surplus fire bricks from a local steel mill. Bought three. Paid a buck each for them. I think I snagged the last one.

Since I haven't posted for a while I wanted to report on my oven and put to rest any worries anyone has about a barrel design. My oven performs fabulously. Cooked 24 pies awhile back for 36 guests and it just kept spitting them out. I really don't have any complaints about any aspect of this oven. These 2300 degree industrial bricks take a while to get hot - about three hours - but they retain their heat very well. Very little dip in temp when pies are put in.

- Craig

[clofgreen]

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I thought I'd mention how I built the door. But first, here's the old door design, made out of redwood, soaked in water all day then after pizzas, I cleaned out the coals and put the door in overnight so I could cook bread the next morning. About 2:00 I woke up to a heavy smoke smell coming in my bedroom window.



My new door is much better. I created a basket out of metal lath the shape of my oven opening then filled it with perlcrete made from a modified home brew by substituting sand with perlite. I finished it with a skim coat of home brew. So far it is holding up pretty well. The area where the mesh is showing is where I had to sand down the skim coat to fit in the opening.



Here's the door in place and my oven surrounded by squash.

[mrchipster]

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looks like the old door got a little warmish.

Chip

[UtahBeehiver]

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Yikes, still must of been plenty warm...those Geneva bricks.

[Bacterium]

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Yes that first ones kinda rustic looking. Like your revised version, interested to see how it goes