90cm (35-36 inch) Pompeii style oven in Slovenia

[kanoer54]

Re: 90cm (35-36 inch) Pompeii style oven in Slovenia

Beautiful oven build! You will be cooking in that oven shortly. I think i can smell it over here already. keep posting pictures.

Jon

[artman]

Re: 90cm (35-36 inch) Pompeii style oven in Slovenia

Hello, i was curing oven and in the last step of curing, big fire the dom has crack, from botom talmost to top, and in the top araund the dom. From outside i can see the flames in the oven. What to do? Can i fill crack with mortal or the dome is broken. I m so angry. I will post a picture when i com to home.
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[cobblerdave]

Re: 90cm (35-36 inch) Pompeii style oven in Slovenia

G'day
It's pretty hard to be the first to answer your post.
Your angry and disappointed , but you'll find that as that cools it will drop back to position. It will probably open up again when the oven is heated again.
Will it fall down ? No! Will it cook as it should. Yes !
Its a wood fired oven, some do crack but they still work as they should. You have built a dome, one of the strongest things on the planet . It will even stay together with the heat trying to push it apart cause gravity pushes it back.
They are others that will have had the same.

Regards dave

[gorazdr]

Re: 90cm (35-36 inch) Pompeii style oven in Slovenia

Artman sorry to hear about your crack, but it seams that is quite common. Thinking back perhaps you made a mistake mortaring first course to the ground?

Bye, Gorazd

[Greenman]

Re: 90cm (35-36 inch) Pompeii style oven in Slovenia

Artman, you were on a high speed roll as well. All is not lost. If you want to see/read the pics and wisdom offered for such a dilemma then have a look at this.

http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f8/share-your-crack-stories-18934.html

You will realise that you are not alone and in fact there are probably more ovens with some level of cracking than not.

[artman]

Re: 90cm (35-36 inch) Pompeii style oven in Slovenia

Hi,
long time no post, sorry.

My oven is finished, i insulating the dome (5cm of rock wool), cover it with cicken wire and stuco it. I installed the chimney.

The first pizza was perfect, taste of crispy crust, melted chess, and ham. Yust incredible, so incredeble that i forget to picture it. Floor was 320c or 640F and the dome was 420 c or 840F. Bake time 1 minute and half.
That day i bake 6 pizzas, and all was perfect and teasty.


Next day i bake in a ceramic pan a pork meat and the sliced potato, on top i put carot and onion. Potato was so soft and melty, and the pork, yust youuuhuhu. Njami. I youst forget to picture it. Sorry.

In saturday i have a party so i will post a pictures of pizzas.

Insulating in my oven is for mi ok, the oven stay hot 2 days. 1. day in morning 180 c or 360 F, 2.day 70c or 140 F.

The cold oven is prepered to cook pizza in 90 minutes of fire.

I also made from leftower wood a table and the bench.


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[GarnerAC]

Re: 90cm (35-36 inch) Pompeii style oven in Slovenia

Well done! Amazing what some good food can do to lift spirits. What size is your vent pipe? Looks a little too small. Is it too late to increase the size of it?

[artman]

Re: 90cm (35-36 inch) Pompeii style oven in Slovenia

Hi,

GarnerAc - vent size, do you mean chimney, its 13 cm or 5 inch. Yes is to small but that pipe i have at home. I can resize it to 16 cm or 6,3 inch (maybe later). But chimney is 2.5 m or 8.2 feet hight. So the draft is ok, but after the fire gone and ther is alot of smoke, some goes throu the openings. no big deal..

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