Although it may seems that your oven is dry by the time you are finished with installation, there is still a great deal of water to work its way out. It is important at this point that you cure your oven slowly, by building a series of seven increasingly larger fires. If you begin building large fires in your oven right way, you could compromise your oven's longevity and ability to cook well, and even cause damage.
Your first fire should be the size of a daily news paper, then become a little larger every day, until you have a good size fire using 3"-4" wood by the end of the week.
Another approach to drying your oven would be to put an electric space heat in the oven for a week.
Congratulation. Your oven is complete, and ready for Cooking.
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