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  • egalecki
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    Yeah, the "still standing' part is pretty cool, I must say. I'm amazed every time I use it that it didn't fall down the first time! It's by far the coolest thing I've ever made.

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  • Bandrasco
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    I decided to make use of the wood fire last night and prepared some olive oil and roasted garlic chicken breast.

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ID:	273783 It was cool seeing the dome start turning white. And using the laser infrared thermometer is addicting!

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ID:	273784 Yummy! It took just around 30 mins.

    Later we roasted marshmallows and watched the fire. I'm very glad I made the archway/vent area flare out as much as I did. The view is awesome from a wide angle. The entire dome turned white and it was such a cool feeling. Especially since it's still standing

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  • Bandrasco
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    Originally posted by mfiore View Post
    Very cool chimney. I love the brick.
    Thanks Mike, I'm relieved that the hard part is done. I'm so ready to start cooking.

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  • Bandrasco
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    Thanks Christo,

    The insulation I used was made by Thermal Dynamics and has a very good rating; a lot better than most I've seen. I also was able to get 3 full inches of it along with an inch of vermicucrete so I'm assuming thats why it's holding temps so good. I just checked it and it's still at 375f with firebricks as a door. I let the fire go to small coals and then placed the brick in front of the door.

    This is way cool, thanks again!

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  • mfiore
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    Very cool chimney. I love the brick.

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  • christo
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    Wonderful! I really like the brick facade! -

    I honestly thought you'd be making pizzas for your friends in just a completed dome - not fully completed and washed oven!!!

    It would also appear that you did a fine job with your insulation - very nice heat retention - I keep wanting to try to dry friut on the third day, but have not tried it yet. And as your oven continues to dry out, performance could become even better.

    Take plenty of pics of the party!

    Christo

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  • Bandrasco
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    Hey Christo,

    Yes I made sure the thermo works ok. I took it out to check along with inserting a digital thermo afterwords and it's right on. Is what I'm seeing out of the norm? Below I have pics of my fist wood fire: I just got in and it's 12:15am...NOT ME!

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ID:	273771 The first fire

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ID:	273773 Nice flame! Inside temps were about 600f, top third of dome was white after a short while

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  • amber
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    And you have an even worse chance of getting to see yours in it than I do, I imagine!

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  • christo
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    Bill - Are you sure your thermometer is still alive? could you have gotten it too hot and damaged it?

    Amber - I like ovens in snow, too!

    Christo

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  • amber
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    Oops, posted that on the wrong thread. Sorry!

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  • amber
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    Elizabeth, your oven looks so pretty, in the snow or out! I'm hoping for snow this year, but I'm in Asheville so we've pretty much forgotten what snow feels like. It was cold yesterday, but today it's like 50 and drizzley. I can't wait to use my oven in the cold, though. It's a reason to get outside.

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  • mfiore
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    Bill,
    Just getting caught up. Your WFO has turned out great so far. I love the "little greek dude". Very original.

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  • Bandrasco
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    12-9-08

    Just a quick post. The oven temp is at 175-ish. It's been sitting with this make shift door since Sunday night with no additional fireing. I'm going to assume that it's doing it's job right?

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  • Bandrasco
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    A few more shots.

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ID:	273752 Vermiculite going on. Love getting my hands dirty.

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ID:	273754 Brick work is getting close to being done. Well at least what I want to get done by Saturday. Surprisingly, the vermiculite was not even warm when the oven was at 500f last night. Very impressed so far.

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ID:	273755 My daughter thought this was sooooo funny.

    No oven tonight, I'm wiped out. Too much work work to do.

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  • Bandrasco
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    12-6-08

    I spent the entire weekend sun up to sun down working on the oven. Friday I started to fire cure the oven with the propane and turkey fryer burner. It worked out perfectly. I was able to keep a flame going constantly until Saturday night. It steamed a small amount at first but then just started drying out. No cracks appeared anywhere except a few small shrinkage cracks in the added thermal mass I added on the top but they were there while it was curing, they just got a little bigger but then closed up after the steam went away. I wrapped the oven with the insulation I bought. I used Thermal Dynamics Cerablanket, 1" thick. 2 rolls gave me 3 full inches around the entire dome. The oven stayed at the desired temp all night, Saturday I opened it up a bit and got it to 350f very quickly. It was so simple, I didn't mess with it at all and just checked the temp now and then. Saturday night the bricks were dry and the mortar was white. The temp slowly climbed as the bricks got drier. Sunday I was feeling good when I woke up at 5:00am and the oven was at 425f and had a nice glow. I shut the gas off, took a high powered light and didn't see any cracks but managed to feel the intense heat coming off the bricks! I looked at the exterior shell, no cracks, no steam. I made the decision to go forward with Vermiculite/portland mix. I covered it with 1" of the mix all the while the oven was back on and was at 450f. By Sunday night I was very tired, got a lot done on the brick work, and the oven was at 500f. I decided to shut it down until tonight. At 5:45pm I checked it and the oven temp is at 250f and all I have is a stack of Chicago bricks for an oven door. I'm very happy with the performance so far and can't wait to get a real fire going in it to see what happens.

    Here is the progress so far.

    [ATTACH]10171[/ATTACH] Nice glow from the propane.

    [ATTACH]10170[/ATTACH] 3" of Cerablanket insulation with chicken wire

    [ATTACH]10172[/ATTACH] This was looking up the chimney from the floor

    [ATTACH]10173[/ATTACH] Here is the Greek dude ready for pizza! I have a small granite landing being made that he will stand on.

    I'm beat!

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