Potato salad for Easter Holidays
Traditional Easter food made at home. Fresh potato salad for Easter Holidays season dining time, ingredients with making method. And how has the traditional Easter Bunny came into the nowadays Easter season celebrations.
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Cabbage Soup
Directions on how to make traditional cabbage soup with meat sausage or smoked meat, sauerkraut (finely sliced cabbage which was then fermented), potatoes, dried mushrooms and sour cream with spices. Here this cabbage soup can easily be made in various other volumes e.g. 2, 4, 6 gallons or 8, 16, 24 liters large cooking pots.
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Chipped off edges on fire-bricks ?
Firebricks having chipped edges or broken corners can be still used in construction of ovens, fireplaces, stoves or chimneys. There is no problem with firebrick seconds. Simply turn all bricks with their best sides inward into a visually accessible side.
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Saving money, Saving time, in building brick ovens.
For people without or with business or accounting degrees and such skills, here is my formula for how to save money on buying building material. Saving either time or money might be quite important also while building wood fired brick pizza ovens. It is a worthy project for the future therefore also an investment. Both in practical sense and in so many pleasing aspects. Thank you for subscribing to traditional oven com newsletter for updates and news. No need to be frugal. To be smart and weary of these ideas will do.
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Vermiculite based insulation
What is vermiculite and how to use it? Learn about the vermiculite lightweight concrete, thermal insulation for many heat resistant applications and fireproofing. Where to buy various grade sizes of loose vermiculite insulation for building not just wood fired ovens?
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What is fire clay and where to get it in nature
Fire clay. Where to collect fireclay in nature and how. Buying fire clay. What is fireclay? All refractory materials are based on fire clay, alumina and silica. In fact all firebricks are made from fire-clay. Like heat resistant mortars, insulation, many pottery clay’s, adobe ovens, fire clay can be found in them all and in the mud clay itself.
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Old red clay solids as firebrick alternative
Red clay solid bricks. Substitute for firebricks can be the old red clay brick solids, or else called as the reds. In ovens these alternative red clay bricks will heat up, retain heat, conduct heat, cool down, cook, re-fire like real fire bricks. But they have to be that right type.
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Stainless steel oven thermometer
Stainless steel analog gauge oven thermometers for measuring cooking temperature in ovens. These are my favorite thermometers. So simple, cheap and slow responding to the heat atmosphere inside the oven, still they are the most suitable tool for measuring temperature and for producing those very real gourmet quality meals with ease.
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Traditional Vs. Commercial for home and restaurants
Mick Bondoc from Philippines writes from his experience on the topic which oven, either commercial or traditional pizza ovens designs, must be as the best working and suitable for his restaurant in Philippines. Mick has been dreaming about soon being able to build himself the best and properly built or installed brick pizza ovens and then cook in them.
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Roasting coffee beens in wood fired ovens
How to roast coffee in a heat from the fire of wood burning ovens to achieve the best possible quality of roasted coffee. A very good and cheap source of fresh green coffee beans for this roasting is in Toronto Canada that ships North America wide. Find out more …
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