Pompeii oven in Switzerland: pics

[RCLake]

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Won't be long before you will be relating stories "Back when I built my oven, it was the middle of winter, seldom seen 40F, winds gusting to 60 mph, had to chop ice out of the wet saw tray; ah those were the days. "
Work on it, I'm sure it will get better.

I have gone back to my earlier threads looking for something and I've noticed all the great insight received from people that I now consider part of my WFO family. Back then I was overwhelmed!

Can't thank them enough.

I guess James with his membership level has adopted names for members that are like grandpa, uncles and nieces. Isn't that great

[Acoma]

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RC, this is a family indeed. Think about it, tons of Grandparents, uncles, aunts, and siblings. We are all those. It is up to each member to confess where they stand. Even though I am not done with mine, I feel like the Uncle to the forum, so, welcome nephews and nieces...

[RCLake]

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I love it when earlier threads get responded to, so many issues in the archives that I've missed. Didn't realize Frances started her cooking in Nov of last year, her cooking results would make me believe it was a long time before that. What an insperation.

[Marcel]

Re: Pompeii oven in Switzerland: pics & Hi to CanuckJim

Marcel,

You've been hiding. Very naughty. Glad to see you back.

Jim

(M) Thanks Jim. I doubt if I'll be nearly as active this year. It's time to do some serious baking!

Chow,

Marcel 03-06-08

[CanuckJim]

Re: Pompeii oven in Switzerland: pics

Marcel,

You've been hiding. Very naughty. Glad to see you back.

Jim

[Marcel]

Old Post from 9-27-07 Re: Angle Iron upside down

David,

Was it Marcel? The post at http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f8/f....html#post9483 has a photo of an upside down angle iron over the entry which I think comes from Marcel in a response to whocanitbenow. There is a link to Marcel's photobucket site, and on it the angle iron seems to be simply sitting freely on the vent sides.

Cheers, Paul.

(M) True, I used an angle iron which I filled with refractory mortar upon the advice of Louis Arrevalo, to reduce smoke turbulance.

Ciao,

Marcel March 06, 2008

[asudavew]

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Does anyone know of any other coating I could put on a wooden door to make it more heat resistant?

If you have any leftover thermal blanket, you can attach it to the inside of the door.

[Frances]

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...well, actuallly the doors got charred as well when I baked bread yesterday .

I thought it was probably because I left the fire inside, but I'll certainly try soaking the doors first, sounds like a good idea. I thought maybe the wood would get brittle if it were continually being soaked and dried out, but that hardly seems to matter now. No worries though, once I've got it all sorted out, I'll make a new door out of the remianing bit of wood

Does anyone know of any other coating I could put on a wooden door to make it more heat resistant?

[sarah h]

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I have just stopped laughing about the bellows and the peel so now I can say congratulations on the pizza and those fine doors - they both (food & doors) look terrific! And what a great idea to do two doors instead of one. I remember reading somewhere that to keep them from burning, you can just soak them before use, and the steam that's created is supposed to help in some way when cooking bread - I'd run that one by an experienced WFO baker though ... Jim??
Great to see you're having fun. I'll look forward to seeing what comes next!

Sarah

[asudavew]

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I have to agree with Frances. Forno Bravo is the best online community I've ever participated in.

Ditto

Congrats Frances!

[Ken524]

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I have to agree with Frances. Forno Bravo is the best online community I've ever participated in.

[Frances]

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Ha, too right! That made me laugh! I haven't been keeping track of how much this thing cost, because basically I'd rather not know...

After my big scary fire the weather has suddenly turned really bad here. Very wet, cold, windy and nasty.

The good news is that there in no longer any condensation on the tarp in the mornings. Seems the dome is fairly well dried out now - just in time, too So I feel safe not heating it anymore. After all the poor thing will have to learn to stand on its own two feet... er, its own foundation sooner or later.

The bad news is no more bakes until the weather clears up.

Six hours after my big fire, the top of dome on the outside was so hot I could just barely touch it and didn't dare put a tarp over it. So I covered it two hours later when it started raining

I'm thinking that if I get one or two days dry weather I could put one layer of insulation on, cover the oven really well with the tarp and cook with it for the rest of the winter like that.

Anyway I thought this is a good moment to wind up this thread here for the time being. And to say a big THANK YOU to all the peolpe (at home and on the forum) who have helped, encouraged, empathised and generally made it possible to build such a cool oven. These plans and this site are truely fantastic, and its been a wonderful experience building the oven, sharing progress updates with all of you and also watching other ovens take shape... I know I've been saying this a lot on this forum, but it is just soooo COOOOOOOOOL!!!!

[gjbingham]

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Hahahaha,
An exciting experience in cooking it sounds like. That first pizza cost a lot of money huh?
G.

[Frances]

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Thank you guys!

Two little details I forgot: we melted the bellows and at one point the peel caught fire....

[Ken524]

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Excellent door, Frances. As thick as it is, I'll bet it will hold heat in nicely over night for cooking the next day.