eBook Contents
- Building a clay oven – the basics
- What you will need – Materials and equipment
- The build order
- How long will a clay oven last?
- The plinth and brick oven floor
- Materials for plinth construction
- Plinth foundation construction
- Plinth construction
- Brick oven floor construction
- The clay-sand mixture and puddling technique
- Mixing or puddling
- The dome sand-former and first (oven) layer
- The first (oven) layer
- The oven entrance and chimney
- Cutting the entrance
- Drying the first layer – firing the oven
- Building the brick arch
- The chimney
- The insulation layer
- The final layer
- Firing the oven
- The best pizza ever!
Exclusive to this edition
To celebrate the launch of this edition of “How to Build a Traditional Wood-fired Clay Oven” I have added new, exclusive content, including:
- Clay – why and where?
- Mechanising the process of mixing
- Adding an earthen plaster finish
- An alternative chimney
- Cooking with the oven
- Repairing cracks
