Elizabeth's oven

[mfiore]

The pizza looks inspiring! Thanks for posting!

[sarah h]

Gee, I turn my back for a few days and miss a mountain of stuff!
Great oven, great food! You (and just about everyone else) are putting me to shame in the cooking department but I actually cooked two chickens too, on Wednesday - just haven't had time to post a pic yet.
I'll look forward to seeing what you do next, whether it's more cooking or more exterior work.

Sarah

[egalecki]

Finally got the insulation finished. Boy did making the flat sides and rounded top make it look enormous! It also took a whole lot of vermiculite. I ran out and had to get more.

[egalecki]

I'm still trying to figure out the front- I need to cover the bricks from the vent with something. But then it will stick out beyond the arch. So I guess I need to add to the arch a bit. Maybe I should cut the ends of some of the old red bricks I have and use them like a facing? I could do vermicrete out to the edge then. What do you all think?

I'm going to fill in to the edge of the floor bricks and tile that- I could sit the brick facing right on the tile.

[egalecki]

Now I have to form up legs and the counter for the left hand side. That's going to be interesting...

[woods witch]

wonderful job!!

[Frances]

Building questions... well, your guess is as good as mine - probably better

But I do like the shape of your oven! It looks like a large beehive. What's coming over the vermcrete? You'll need to add the thickness of that to the extended arch way, too. Er, right?

[egalecki]

Originally Posted by Frances

Building questions... well, your guess is as good as mine - probably better

But I do like the shape of your oven! It looks like a large beehive. What's coming over the vermcrete? You'll need to add the thickness of that to the extended arch way, too. Er, right?

Yes, I'll have to add some for the stucco coating. I need to get on that soon too, since fall is here! Cool mornings with lots of fog.

Just need to get other people to stop cutting my day into pieces too short to use...I have an hour here and 45 minutes there far too often to get going really well on anything lately. Other than being online, which I can do just fine in that kind of time.

[krosskraft]

Its looking great.....I'm sure you will finish it just right. Good job.

[Frances]

Originally Posted by egalecki

Just need to get other people to stop cutting my day into pieces too short to use...I have an hour here and 45 minutes there far too often to get going really well on anything lately. Other than being online, which I can do just fine in that kind of time.

Tell me about it! That's exactly right.