Hello from Malcolm and Manuela in South Africa

[malcolmp]

Hi all

We built our own wood fired oven, about 1.8 x 1.3 metres inside dimensions, dome shaped, some time ago. We are hoping to share ideas and get some on how to measure and control temperatures better.

so far we have cooked Christmas dinners, pizza, lots of bread etc in the oven. One of the favourites are the lamb shanks after a bread baking day, overnight when the oven is winding down.

cheers

[cannyfradock]

Hello Malcolm and manuela.....welcome to the forum.

We'd love to see some pics of your oven. Please shout out if you have problems with posting pics. Your interior dimensions of the oven oven are quite large so I'd be very interested to see what you have been achieving in your oven.

It sounds like you have a good idea of oven management, using the hot oven with the coals/embers still burning to have your pizza soirees or even have a communal meal with the oven used for flatbreads or fladenbrots/pitta breads to accompany your other dishes. Once the fun bit of pizza parties have died out, then a few extra logs thrown on the "flickering fire" ....then spread across the hearth for 30 mins or so, then cleaned out should give you a few batches of full oven bread baking.

After the bread has been baked there should be enough residual heat to put in your casseroles etc. Depending on what insulation you have beneath the hearth....and above the dome, there should be enough heat to bake a few cakes.....then the process starts over.

All the best with your oven...please post some pics if you can.

Terry

[malcolmp]

Thanks for the welcome Terry - and Wow your oven looks super neat! Congratulations.

Manuela and I were going through our pictures to find all of the Oven pictures and were shocked to find very very few - the two above give you some idea.

The continuation from this now I will take into the forum, otherwise it detracts from the power of a forum.

Will post some questions, pictures and stuff as I get to it. Glad to be able to be part of a forum like this.