My Wife and I have been having lots of fun playing in the mud making this new wood fired pizza/bread oven!
Following intructions from the book entitled "Build your own earth oven" by Denzel and Field (hand print press) we used leftover adobe blocks from
the construction of our house soaked them and slowly built up the layers over a sand form.
The base underneath the oven is heavily insulated with empty wine bottles (we have LOTS of those:lol a layer of adobe mud, and then leftover saltillo tiles to act as a oven floor.
After the 1st mud layer is over the sand form a last layer 3-6 inches thick of adobe mud mixed with wood shavings act as a layer of insulation.
Finally to protect it from the elements a one inch thick layer of lime plaster will hopefully protect it!
Can hardly wait to bake in it!
Will take a few weeks to totally dry out with a series of small fires.
mmmmm pizza
astrobaja - 8-17-2010 at 03:57 PM
a pic of our new laja stones going in (from Erendira) and the sitting area with BBQ grill area! Just has to be plastered with a little pigment,
flagstones grouted and its ready to go!
BajaGeoff - 8-17-2010 at 04:15 PM
Mmmmmm....pizza indeed! I am sensing the need for a Baja Nomad Pizza Fiesta in the not-so-distant future!ELINVESTIG8R - 8-17-2010 at 04:35 PM
Astrobaja that oven looks nifty. I bet everything you bake in it will taste yummy.grace59 - 8-17-2010 at 05:30 PM
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Originally posted by astrobaja
a pic of our new laja stones going in (from Erendira) and the sitting area with BBQ grill area! Just has to be plastered with a little pigment,
flagstones grouted and its ready to go!
Wow, this is absolutely beautiful! So inviting! Let us know when the pizza will be ready! David K - 8-17-2010 at 05:59 PM
Wow... are we EVER looking forward to a visit with you guys!!!Russ - 8-17-2010 at 06:12 PM
New York Pizza in a Baja adobe oven. Even those arrogant New yorkers would drool.astrobaja - 8-17-2010 at 06:18 PM
I can hardly wait either! I'm betting it will take some practice getting the temp just right, but I have 2 nine inch pizza stones on the way from
amazon!
1st pizza will be -- light tomatoe sauce base, caramelized onions, baja goat cheese, and sun dried tomatoes and fresh basil from our garden!
I'll take pictures I promise!Mike99km - 8-17-2010 at 06:25 PM
That should hold the heat!
The ones I seen always have a stack on them,always figured it was to help the draft. Did you find the plans on line?irenemm - 8-18-2010 at 12:16 AM
wow that looks great. you can come over and build one for me please.
do you have the #of the person the floor came from? I love it. can you send it to me please.
Now I know where to go on a day trip.
when you have to come to town for banking stop by. I will show you were I want the oven.
enjoy and good job.
thanks for sharing the information.
Ireneshari - 8-18-2010 at 11:56 AM
Great new project paisanos!! Did you take pics of the mud oven building from the start...I would like to see how you did it from scratch and the wine
bottle part too.
I love the colour of your laja there. Ours here is a paler cream colour...here the laja floor going in on our patio. It's neat we are laying laja
patios at the same time but in very different locations!!
and here is the nearly finished patio from last week
oh how I would love a mud oven for pizzas!!!Mexitron - 8-18-2010 at 12:54 PM
Nice looking oven and patio setup!
Remember when you're done making pizzas there's still lots of heat left for cooking. We bake breads when the temp has cooled to 500-600, then put in
a pork shoulder (covered in foil in a baking pan), close up the openings, and let it cook all night long with the residual heat...mmmmm!
We built our oven with firebrick, concrete, and vermiculite/cement insulation, but the adobe/saltillo is a nice touch...will the flames eventually
vitrify the adobe?DENNIS - 8-18-2010 at 01:12 PM
Irene: if you get somebody to make a block base like we have the making of the oven is totally easy, hell if I can do it anyone can! Heres the
wonderful book we used as a guide:
Next time we are down in colonia guerrero we will stop by your place and bring you the 20 or so adobe blocks you will need to build the oven, all you
have to do is soak them in water overnight. I will u2u the no. of the guy in San Vicente that did our laja.astrobaja - 8-19-2010 at 07:56 AM
Fishabductor: excellent idea about the welding gloves! thanksastrobaja - 8-19-2010 at 08:07 AM
Shari: I like that you spell "colour" the proper way LOL! What a beautiful patio area that is WOW, we just have to get down your way maybe in the
spring!
Hey, apple time will be here in a few weeks, any chance of getting a box of organic apples to you? The trees are brimming with scads of apples!
We forgot to take pics of the bottle part, heres a pretty good youtube video on how to construct an oven. We used adobe mud to bury the 2 layers of
bottles we used as insulation instead.
Astrobaja, could you please post your contact info again. I know that you have posted it in the past, but I cannot find it. Looking forward to
camping there with our truck campers in the near future.astrobaja - 8-19-2010 at 08:18 AM
for sure GC heres our website, just go to the map and contct pages:
Originally posted by GC
Astrobaja, could you please post your contact info again. I know that you have posted it in the past, but I cannot find it. Looking forward to
camping there with our truck campers in the near future.
Your house is starting to look like CamperWorld, George. Nice collection of toys.
You know what they say about the guy with the most toys.......AmoPescar - 8-20-2010 at 12:50 AM
FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN BUILDING A PIZZA OVEN....
Here's a website with lots of information for you:
Has anyone ever seen fire-brick for sale down here? They build a lot of fire places, but I've never seen the fire-brick.AmoPescar - 8-21-2010 at 01:35 PM
DENNIS...
Glad you liked the site. It really does have a lot of very useful information on it!
I think these ovens are the perfect thing for Baja. Sure would keep the casa from heating up and there's almost always a good supply of fuel somewhere
nearby.
Mike irenemm - 8-23-2010 at 01:38 PM
astro baja
thanks hope to see you soon.
drive careful
how is the road up to you now? everything all fixed from the rains?
a layer of adobe mud, and then leftover saltillo tiles to act as a oven floor.
