Sourdough culture in easy steps w/ bread making formula
All anyone needs for an efficient and effective way of making high quality artisan breads – sourdough technique. Described is the way of preparing own sourdough culture, starter in easy steps, and the actual bread making formula. Artisan bread at the table & sourdough culture.
Category: baking, breads, Culinary Gold — Tags: baking, bread, dough, sourdough, sourdough starter —
Mike builds 3rd oven. Plus uses digital thermometers.
Mike built two ovens already and now he builds a third oven. His own, second for a church community. The 3rd he just started to supervise is at another church in the Minneapolis State. His ovens have extended roof also in the front.
Category: ovens, rectangular — Tags: backyard, garden project, oven, pizza oven, recycled material, slate stone, stone project —
Adjusting internal oven width to 36″ – instead of 34″
How to use an uncommon shapes of tapered firebricks, plus how to increase the total internal oven width by 2 inches. From 34 inches to 36 inches arch span calculation and how it all corresponds to the rest of the measurements – brick walls of the outside shell, slabs and space for thermal insulation.
Category: miscellaneous, ovens, rectangular — Tags: insulation, oven, pizza oven, recycled material, scaled —
Solid granite arches w/ brick walls
Solid granite arches were set into brick walls and most of the other material for building of this oven, such as bricks, was reclaimed, practically reused again.
Category: ovens, rectangular — Tags: backyard, garden project, pizza oven, recycled material, stone project —
Wales meets Italy and Greece
Owen built his half spherical dome shape pizza oven on the terrace using proper firebricks. He has ordered empty pizza boxes as he is planing to sell/deliver pizzas within the neighborhood.
Category: igloo round, ovens — Tags: pizza oven, pompeii oven —
Oven using heat vented in from fireplace below
This pizza oven, as it was designed, is being heated by venting the heat into the oven through one channel from the fireplace below. The adjacent pool uses fiber optics to deliver colors of light.
Category: ovens, rectangular — Tags: art work, backyard, chimney, pizza oven, roof, stone chimney, stone project —
I had no formal training in building trades
I had no previous training in building trades. Nor I would take a course to learn how to build with bricks or work with building tools. Still I built my oven and the surrounding area.
Category: ovens, rectangular — Tags: chimney, garden project, oven, pizza oven, roof, small oven, stone project —
Pizza oven – half-spherical
Half-spherical shape pizza oven with tiled outside job plus decorative tiles beautifying its chimney and also the base. Built in Florida by Bruce who is prepared to take more custom building oven jobs like this one for new customers.
Category: igloo round, ovens — Tags: art work, backyard, chimney, garden project, pizza oven, small oven —
Concrete over vermiculite – No roof
Instead of making roof, I spread a layer of concrete over the vermiculite insulation. Around the brick chimney I put expansion joint material which was sealed at the end with a flexible sealant.
Category: ovens, rectangular — Tags: backyard, chimney, garden project, oven, pizza oven, roof —
Oven built from free left-over heavy kiln fire bricks
I had a thought, if the 8*7*2 inch proper HEAVY fire bricks are supposed to be used to protect the industrial grade kiln steel shell, operated by a big cement company, I should be able to use them for building both the floor and the ceiling on my small in comparison brick oven.
Category: ovens, rectangular — Tags: pizza oven, recycled material —