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Backyard
adobe - We built
this simple oven at our neighbour's 15 years ago. It is based on the
traditional Québec oven shape, an elongated dome.
Click on image for assembly photos.
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Building
an Horno: the Adobe Bread Oven
by Michael Moquin - Detailed adobe instructions.
Greg's Earth Oven
Good adobe oven building instructions with illustrations.
Ben's
Art - nice selection of clay ovens modeled on "Bread
Ovens of Quebec"
Ovens by Rado Hand. He has an extensive Wood
Burning Oven Website, including oven plans,
pizza instructions, and more. Highly recommended for amateur oven builders.
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Ovencrafters
- simple, high efficiency insulated design developed by Alan Scott.
Proven in a range of sizes and applications including home, restaurants
and bakeries.
Click on Alan to join him for a seminar.
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Click
here to order.
by Daniel
Wing and Alan Scott
Definitive work on authentic hearth breads.
Includes instructions for building a backyard bake oven.
"Wing and Scott do more than get the details
right: they get the right details. It is difficult for me to imagine
any baker, amateur or professional, coming away from this book without
having learned something significant, even profound, about the art
of bread baking."
-Thom Leonard, author of The Bread Book
Retained Heat Oven Data - now
available in the book.
Brick
Oven Map on Google
August Vanderdonckt writes:
The map allows brick oven fans to find out if they are close to
somebody who already has one.
It enables people to upload pictures, communicate with each other
directly and locate ovens geographically.
August Vanderdonckt's detailed
photo record of building an Alan Scott oven.
Frankie
G's Pizza Oven Project - good photo record and pizza info.
Tom's oven.
Build Your Own Earth Oven
Click
here to order
A simple, fully-illustrated handbook for
making an oven from earthen materials (similar to adobe and cob).
Provides clear, step-by-step instructions for building and firing
the oven. Also complete directions for making sourdough bread in
the best (and simplest) artisan tradition.
Click
here to order
This unique study of the role of the bread
oven in rural Quebec society also gives complete instructions on
how to build a traditional outdoor bread oven. 115 pages, many illustrations.
More Books on Baking and Masonry
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Pat Manley recently built a kitchen
bake oven for Billy Joel
at his house on Long Island.
- Backyard Bakeoven Workshop with Norbert
Senf
step-by-step construction photos of a 32" X 36" oven.
Hikary Fukazawa, a participant at the 2003 French
bake oven workshop, returned to Japan and built his own oven. Hikari
writes:
Here is the picture of my bake oven.
Our bakery is going so well.
Last Saturday we sold out 30 pizza at the Saturday evening market.
Of course I baked by wood fire.
Every day my wife Shuko is baking 10kg wheat flour and selling out
in a short time.
We will increase products little by little.
But we will keep making hand made bread.
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Russian Bake Oven Drawings
30 pages
2Mb Word .doc file
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(above) Amish style "Squirrel Tail" oven at Old Salem,
NC- see MHA 2000 Meeting for some details.
on this, and on a backyard pizza oven workshop.
Ben Sotero and crew with the new teaching oven at the San Francisco
Baking Institute.
details
- BlackOven
Good site by a brick oven enthusiast, including recipes and baking info.
- Castable
Oven
step-by-step construction photos of a refractory concrete oven.
- Commercial
Castable Oven
good photos of the manufacturing process, including a unique safety
test
- Indian Tandoor
Pier's Thompson's excellent site on building and using a traditional
Indian Tandoor.
- Heat-Kit white oven - this oven
is an option on the Heat-Kit masonry heating system and is the most
developed masonry heater oven design. Check out oven testing at Lopez Labs
- Traditional
French Oven - from Gasogne region, southwest of Bordeaux.
Similar shape to Quebec oven, built from brick.
A well-illustrated CD (in French) on brick dome oven construction is
available from this web site.
- Cob
Oven - An Experiment in Progress
Interesting oven experiments, including a novel firing technique
- Prefab Ovens - examples of several
systems manufactured in Europe and North America.
- More Prefabs:
- Fayol -Excellent
oven made from a unique clay deposit in Provence, France, that has
been used for ovens since Roman times.
- Fornobravo: precast
and prefabricated brick ovens from Italy. The site includes a set
of
brick
oven plans
- EarthStone
- Good website.
- Renato Precast Ovens
- the oldest oven precaster in the United States.
- Mugnaini Imports
- California company importing high quality Italian ovens.
- Beech
- Australian dome shaped oven that appears to be very well engineered.
Excellent website.
- Superior Clay
- Clay oven manufactured in Ohio
- Backyard Gourmet
- lightweight, assembled
- Golden
Embers - Australia, South Africa
- Catamount
Brick Ovens - Peter Moore Masonry Inc. builds domestic beehive
ovens throughout the Northeast.
- Electric Brick Ovens
Fireplace/ Bakeoven Combo - Family
room fireplace preheats kitchen bakeoven. Rammed earth house, Saltspring
Island, BC. Technical design and custom refractory components by Masonry
Stove Builders. Phillip Van Horn, architect.
Richard Dakin, mason
- Kitchen Cooking Fireplace
with Bakeoven - by Biofire
- Custom white oven for a
Colonial fireplace - by Masonry Stove Builders.
- Masonry heater bakeoven feedback
from Bill Derrick
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Bakeoven by Doug Wood.
Click on image for more information
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Commercial Ovens
Traditional French commercial
ovens
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Spanish Llopis
oven with revolving hearth, Acme Bakery, Berkley.
The Farjas is
similar.
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- German 1930's Commercial
- this plan is from a German masonry textbook from the 1930's.
- 1900's American
- the oven at Black Diamond bakery in Washington state has been in continuous
use for over 90 years. It has a 10 foot by 12 foot hearth. Photos.
- Historical oven in Waterdown,
Ontario. We partially documented this recently unearthed 10 X 10 oven.
Our Excel spreadsheet template that simplifies "baker's percentage"
sourdough calculations
Interesting Links
Boulangerie Anna
Anna is my sister in law. She became a bread head about 10 years ago
after working at Terra
Breads in Vancouver. She now has her own bakery on the French Riviera,
and it is one of the best bakeries in France.
The
Bread Bakers' Forum
Comprehensive website maintained by Beth Hinkle . Includes
brick oven page, including list of builders, manufacturers, websites,
books, articles.
The Bread Bakers Guild of America
San Francisco Baking Institute
Bread baking classes and bakery consulting
Cafe Beaujolais
- great place, great website. They have an early
Alan Scott oven.
- Bread Art
by Henry Ruczynski, Vancouver
Click on image for large file of pictures
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