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[Tim Oppenheim <timopp AT gmail.com>]

Has anyone built a clay or cob oven like Kiko Denzer? I am pondering  
the possibilities as we expand our front porch to add one. Would you  
think it would have to be ducted?

Tim
On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Gene GeRue wrote:

> On Jan 14, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > Now you're talking!  The stack of beige fire brick just outside the
> > kitchen
> > window have been staring accusingly at me for three years now.  They
> > are for
> > the floor of the clay oven.  At the bottom of one of the creeks we
> > have a
> > deposit of some very fine kaolin like clay.
>
> Get on with it, man! That way I can learn from your mis . . ., um,
> efforts.
>
> It certainly does not require an advanced engineering degree. My
> greatest pause is that it would be a piece of work to take asunder if
> location choice is wrong. I actually have a near-perfect place, under
> the high and extended shed roof of the East Wing. It is close enough
> to serve the kitchen handily, but would require building over the fine
> ferrocement bed I built there.
>
> I keep losing my crystal ball.
>
> I was looking at old writings this morning and came across one about
> the importance of making a master plan before any building or
> permanent garden construction. Well, even with a good master plan, I
> have this clay oven example of how you just can't think of everything.
>
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