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I am posting this here as it seems the forum for firebuilding doesn't get many posts. Pardon the intrusion....
I have successfully cured my 42" oven and am ready to try my first cooking fire. My questions have to do with how to get a hot fire in the most economical amount of time. I noticed during my curing events it took a loooooong time to heat the outside of the dome. (not insulated as of yet)
Now granted I did not throw a ton of logs on it but did have a few 3" diameter split mesquite on it. The heat was naturally concentrate on the dome directly above the fire. But I was expecting it to radiate to other parts of the cooking floor and dome a bit more than it did. I have reached an opinion that feeding with 2 to 3" split logs is better than throwing larger wood like you may in a fireplace. The larger wood takes longer to develope coals.
So what do you experts do? And after you have a good coal bed do you cook on the floor next to the coals or sweep the coals to the side and cook where the fire was?
Merry Christmas everybody.
I have successfully cured my 42" oven and am ready to try my first cooking fire. My questions have to do with how to get a hot fire in the most economical amount of time. I noticed during my curing events it took a loooooong time to heat the outside of the dome. (not insulated as of yet)
Now granted I did not throw a ton of logs on it but did have a few 3" diameter split mesquite on it. The heat was naturally concentrate on the dome directly above the fire. But I was expecting it to radiate to other parts of the cooking floor and dome a bit more than it did. I have reached an opinion that feeding with 2 to 3" split logs is better than throwing larger wood like you may in a fireplace. The larger wood takes longer to develope coals.
So what do you experts do? And after you have a good coal bed do you cook on the floor next to the coals or sweep the coals to the side and cook where the fire was?
Merry Christmas everybody.
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