 FirstFire!
Having completed the dome, and dried it out for three days, I could now commence with the time-honored rite of passage, indite in the lore of ovenbuilders over the centuries: The Holy Sacrament of FirstFire! (Perhaps I have embellished the sanctity of this ritual in my own mind, but I was quite excited).
Here's where I wonder if I started screwing up. I am told to build a "small" fire. How small is small? I used newspaper and a few hunks of wood. The inside temperature near the floor reached about 200 degrees.
Subsequent fires grew larger - larger than I wanted, in some cases, and we'll see the effects.
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There is nothing quite so satisfying as drinking a cold beer, while tending a hot fire, in an oven that you built yourself, and making the best pizza that your friends have ever had. |