Karangi Dude's 48inch Oven

[Karangi Dude]

Thanks Dave

I remember you were the first to welcome me on board way back in 2010, yes I am still cooking, catering and some consulting on all things WFO

[Alomran]

Doug: Have you used lime in mortar in building oven before? What are your views on using lime ?

[Karangi Dude]

Alomran,

Yes I have used lime in the home brew mortar it works well, the lime is very hard on your hands so you may need to ware gloves

Cheers Doug

[Alomran]

Alomran,

Yes I have used lime in the home brew mortar it works well, the lime is very hard on your hands so you may need to ware gloves

Cheers Doug

If you recommend using it in building WFB, how long do you leave it for it to cure before you fire up the oven?

[Karangi Dude]

Thanks Zoolander that build was a few years ago now, to answer your questions about the Thermo couples and digital reader they come from a company here in Australia that make and supply thermo couples to commercial industries. I am sure if you do a search of your area you would find a similar company.
Zoolander in my opinion you do not need to put thermo couples in your oven they are a bit of an overkill I simply put them in because my friend runs the company and I was interested to find out how these ovens work, look through my thread you will see that I put up results of some tests that I ran and explain how to know the temperature of your oven using only a thermometer to measure the air temperature
Good Luck

Cheers Doug

[Karangi Dude]

Hi all, it's been a long time since I added to this thread
I was going over some old photos and found some of the large oven that I was working on for customer who had a special door made by a blacksmith for his oven.
This is a continuation of that build Date; 1-14-2013 Page No;229 Post 229
The Dome was completed by the owner who then commissioned me to design and build the flue arch with buttressing and outer decorative arch
Because the door was hinged I had to make the flue and decorative arches higher than first expected to allow for the door to open just past 90 degrees so I had to extend the hight of the door arch

[Karangi Dude]

Now that the sides of the flue arch were in place I had to build some buttress to handle the down force from the arch.
I built the buttress out of low cost concrete bricks to save money as they would not be seen anyway when the decorative arch was in place
I then built a form for the new size flue arch, I laid the arch bricks and made the flue gallery

[Neil.B]

How are you planning on exiting the roof as it's corrugated and not flat?
I have a shaped roof and not worked it out yet.

[Karangi Dude]

Hi Neil B,
This build was from a long time ago, my part was to get it to a stage that the owner could use it.
He removed the roof so that I could brick up the chimney a few courses above the roof line, he was then planning on making up some flashing to weather proof it.
The building was only temporary as he was planning on a new building that was going to used as an eatery come bakehouse

[Karangi Dude]

Once the flue gallery was finished I then started on the entrance, landing and decorative arch.
As noted above I bricked up the chimney a few courses above the roof line.
The owner was looking for a soft washed look for the final brick work so I acid washed it a couple of times
The last part of the build for me was to set a beautiful piece of Black Marble in place at the entrance, the piece is about 32" wide, it was very heavy it was a two man job, remembering that this oven is quite large at 60'' (1500mm) in diameter
I later went back and helped with the curing and then commissioned it (with the help of my wife) we catered for about 70 people at an opening day the oven performed perfectly we cooked about 100 pizzas that were enjoyed by all

[oasiscdm]

Hi Doug

As usual a work of art.