Wood fired bread oven

In June 2007, we built near the main house a wood fired clay bread oven, with the help of Veronica, a woofer who is used to working with clay as she is a potter. 

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The bread oven in use

 The finished bread oven

 Pizzas ready to go in
Pizza out
Baking pizza in the bread oven, March 2008

Here are a few pictures of the builing of the oven. 
The oven has been in regular use since. It bakes delicious pizzas, as well as bread.

sand form  
Veronica building the sandform over which the oven will be built. The base is made of dry stone (no mortar).

1st Clay layer

Sand form finished and covered with newspaper. Starting to build the oven.
The 1st layer is made of clay and sand

 2nd cob layer
The fist layer is finished, and we are mixing the cob for the 2nd layer.
As you can see, everyone's doing their share of work

Sculpting the door
Scupting the door		 Insulation layer
Starting the 3rd cob layer.
This is the insulation layer, and the cob contains a very high proportion of straw.
The insulation layer is then covered with 2 coats of clay plaster.

    Dry Stone buidling
Bob (from CELT), Christophe and Johannes buidling a stone retaining wall beside the oven, with Maud supervising

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