Our goal:
To make first rate pizza, bread and roasted mammal components
Our solution:
Build a 36" diameter wood burning oven
Why wood burning?
1) We live in a forest
2) Wood smoke tastes good
3) We had a boat load of bricks from a chimney we demolished when we remodeled the house
Our story...
So I made a brick box like this
Add Support structures
6 inch I-beam I had left over from a job Temporary supports for concrete pour
This concrete slab that holds the oven up is going to get hot and that will make the slab expand. I don't want it to push on the walls of the brick box and possibly break the box so.....
First we cover the top of the bricks with 2 layers of 6 mil plastic to start making a slip joint
Then add some spacers made from foam insulation to keep
the concrete 3/4 inch from the sides of the brick box
The foam will need to come out later so I tied mason line to some 1/4 inch
dowels so that I could pull it out after the concrete has set
* I'll let you know how this works
Update ( The foam spacers came out perfectly naturally...hehe)
And covered them with duct tape to keep the concrete out
Next I added 1/2 inch Hardie board to fill the space between
the I-beam and the blue spacers.
Next comes a mat of rebar
And a form for the concrete
