Links:
This section is the only one I have touched since uploading the contents of the original El Horno. Not only did I have to get rid of the dead links, but there is so much more information out there than there used to be for me to include! Whereas I more or less flew by the seat of my pants when building my first oven, you don't have to. Read, read, watch, read some more, and when you can't stand it any more, get the materials and get your hands dirty!
This section is the only one I have touched since uploading the contents of the original El Horno. Not only did I have to get rid of the dead links, but there is so much more information out there than there used to be for me to include! Whereas I more or less flew by the seat of my pants when building my first oven, you don't have to. Read, read, watch, read some more, and when you can't stand it any more, get the materials and get your hands dirty!
* If you want a book, and you want to be inspired, your first port of call is Kiko Denzer's book, Build Your Own Earth Oven, which is the text behind many of the earth ovens you'll see online. Ovens meet art in this book, which is written for "any level, even the multi-thumbed". Kiko's technique is brilliant in that you can build your oven today, and bake in it tomorrow! While making such ovens is literally dirt cheap, he also shows how the ovens can be sculpted, or have furniture incorporated into them. Baking techniques too! Whattaguy. And if you still want to be inspired but don't necessarily want to buy a book, at least just yet, check out Kiko's blog, EARTH-ART.
* Sunset publications are always trustworthy, and the basic idea for my oven came from an old Sunset magazine. Comprehensive, easy instructions for the same oven, along with pictures, adobe oven recipes and heating guide, are now available online: Getting started on your own outdoor oven.
* Stu Silverstein has written a book, Earth Oven Adventure (print and download), but his Breadhunter's Blog is also packed full of information on just about everything you need to know to make an oven and bake sourdough and flatbreads. I've been poring through the last three years of blog entries and have barely scraped the surface!
* Stu Silverstein has written a book, Earth Oven Adventure (print and download), but his Breadhunter's Blog is also packed full of information on just about everything you need to know to make an oven and bake sourdough and flatbreads. I've been poring through the last three years of blog entries and have barely scraped the surface!
* The Brick Oven Page has been going for many years now, and just keeps getting more an more links, info, and photos of bakeovens, both brick and adobe.
* Pasqualino Marchese has instructions (in Spanish) for a good, standard horno de barro.
* Instructions (in French) for a brilliant, "four à pain" on wheels, so you can move it around.
* Useful text from a book called The Art of Natural Building, by Michael Moquin, on Building a horno: the adobe bread oven.
* Simple adobe oven plan.
* And now for something completely different: the 1-hour brick oven! Awwwriiiight! Super good fun.
* And now for something completely different: the 1-hour brick oven! Awwwriiiight! Super good fun.
* Alan and Susie Nielsen's Adobe Oven Page, tells the or the story of their oven, made from plans from Sunset Magazine.
* The fascinating saga of an experiment in building an Anglo-Saxon "ofn".
* Another interesting experiment in building a Medieval-style hemispherical bake oven.
* Info and plans from the authority on brick ovens, expat Allan Scott: Oven Crafters.
* My food blog, Yumbo McGillicutty!
* My food blog, Yumbo McGillicutty!
* And finally, something that wasn't around in 1999: YouTube. Click on the link for stacks of related videos on making your own earth oven.
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| "Baking bread" Hebrew manuscript, end of the fifteenth century. |
