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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Home business---mud oven(s) on a trailer pizzas
  • Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:36:02 -0800

Home Business schtick again---food concessions always do well at flea markets, festivals, public beaches. They have to be portable of course---on a four-wheel farm wagon chassis is a good way to go---good idea to have e;ectric brakes on rear axle which set when a vehicle is disconnected.

Nothing---absolutely nothing is cheaper than mud---put a couple adobe ovens on the wagon, fire them up early so they are at baking temperature when you pull into your display area, and be ready to make pizzas. They only take about fifteen minutes to bake. Something to drink is probably a necessity too---maybe lemonade in an insulated barrel. If you make a bunch of money, you can branch out with some kind of softserve ice cream---like the Amish posting somewhere here, with a make-and-break engine for crowd-drawing noise as it turns an oversize White Mountain freezer---or several. Store your pre-packaged pizza ingredients in the ice cube/ice flake barrel you need to put in the White Mountain freezer---get dual use from the ice.

http://www.fogazzo.com/Ovens/Pizza_Recipes/Dough_Recipes/dough_recipes.html
(pizza dough recipes for woodfired oven)

http://www.justvegetablerecipes.com/veg-zucc0010.shtml
(nothing grows more profusely or cheaply as zucchini---fine as a pizza ingredient along with the obligatory cheeses, mozzarella the most common, thinly-sliced sausage for visual, not taste-effect, and forget about any reference to those nasty and too-expensive Kraft wrapped single-slice tasteless, poor-textured cheese.)

http://www.recipehound.com/Recipes/2544.html
(eggplant and tomato pizza---do add cheese(s). I like eggplant texture better than zucchine, but of course eggplants are not as quick to mature, or as productive as the wildly prolific zucchini plants.)

http://www.amishmaid.com/Equipment.htm
(repost of the Amish make-and-break engine-powered ice cream maker on a four-wheel trailer.
You would need an insulated bag or box to hold ice cubes or flakes, and a saltwater collection tank---flea markets, festivals etc., would not appreciate you allowing melted and salted icewater to run all over the street or grass.)

http://www.mikebrownsolutions.com/baxter.htm
(not in production, but great concept combining boiler with steam engine and all controls---from Mike Brown website.)

http://www.mikebrownsolutions.com/mbsteam.htm
(commercially availablw now from Mike Brown, compact two-cylinder steam engine puts out 1500 watts of electricity, or runs mechanical ice-cream maker---maybe smaoo softserve ice-cream machine---have to look them up on Internet)

http://www.mikebrownsolutions.com/steamart.htm
(small steam engines eminently practical on farm with woodlot)

http://www.greensteamengine.com/
(new, very powerful for low weight, steam engine---2003 patent)

http://ghlin2.greenhills.net/~apatter/boiler.html
(boiler theory, Doble popularized safest boiler, the monotube)

http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/genboiler.html
(how to make a monotube boiler from off-the-shelf parts)

http://www.firedragon.com/~kap/SteamTopics/vagg.html
(monotube boilers and steam-operated bicycles, automobiles, Graeme Vagg notes)

http://www.matteranenergy.us/progress_update.htm
(significant improvement, motorless working fluid injection and low-temp 160 degree working fluid---improves woodfired operation, and makes solar concentrator low cost)

http://www.lynxsteamengines.com/
(Lynx, a unified engine-monotube that looks promising, but not now available for sale)

http://www.lynxsteamengines.com/drawings.cfm
(Lynx steam engine drawings)

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=80812
(the old Audel books and ICS, International Correspondence School texts are still valid, clearly written, easy to understand on steam, other mechanical, electrical topics--available from e-Bay or Lindsay Publications,

http://www.keveney.com/Vstirling.html
(pictures showing entire power cycle of Stirling hot-air engine)

http://www.starspin.com/stirlings/jimd6.html
(2.5 hp. Jim Dandy #6 Stirling engine---one of the pictures shows the wood firebox beneath the engine. For larger engines you'd have to go to steam for external combustion, but 2.5 hp in Stirling configuration could be useful, and you can leave a Stirling unattended without worry. Not sure I would do that with a steam engine. A steam monotube boiler is safe compared to firetube type, but a leaky monotube can still kill you) Price not shown on the website, but I wrote for it, will post it when I get an answer.)

http://www.ambergriscaye.com/BzLibrary/trust393.html
(steam engines already a necessity in Belize---and cane juice ethanol or fermented cane juice turned to vinegar, mixed with cow patty soup to make methane---look up Peter Singfield on net and various energy groups to which he belongs.)
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/goebel43.html
(Tiny Power steam engines, kits, by Skip Goebel---great monotube diagram)





  • [Homestead] Home business---mud oven(s) on a trailer pizzas, Tvoivozhd, 11/13/2004

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