Testing the Clay Oven | The Forest Kitchen | Earthen Oven

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I can't believe the amount of work I put into this thing, and it has failed.

I make a handle for the earthen oven door, I do fabricate a few items out of copper and galvanized sheet metal and give Cali a bath in the pond.

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everybody welcome back to the cabin so this is going to be my first hot fire in this up and I'm finally I think ready to fire it up to full temperature and see how it performs and up fall goes well then tomorrow I will do some baking in it so I started the fire with some cedar kindling that I use that I split from the shingles leftover shingles but it really is Sparky it's hot there and fast catching fast burning so it's good to get a fire starter but it's too Sparky so I'm not going to continue to do that generally so it's really hot today still too so don't really want to stand over the fire and bake all day so tomorrow or Friday looks like it's going to be down around 20 degrees Celsius finally so this looks like it's the last hot day of 2018 here at least this hot 30 degrees 40 degrees Celsius including the humidex that's what it feels like so it's unbearable so I'm actually going to fire this up it's been a couple hours just tinkering around getting a couple other projects done but not working too hard then I'll take Cali down to the stream and give her a bath and I'll go in for a bath and then probably maybe even go for a swim over at the lake so let's plan for today I'm really looking forward to this cool weather actually anyway let's see how this goes [Applause]

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well that's disappointing left the oven for 25 minutes went down to the water to bathe Callie came back and that ovens only had 150 175 degrees Fahrenheit so as soon as I took the fire out it cooled right down

actually that cobb still feels hot but it I guess it just isn't thick enough to retain and off heat again absorb enough heat to get it up to that high temperature I'm guessing that the cod material sagged too much to the bottom so to get thick thick walls near the bottom of the oven and maybe too thin on top because it's very warm on top of the stove very on top of the oven so this might be a fail that might have to start over or think probably I can recover this by raising that roof up and then covering another layer or putting it installing another layer of cob on top of the oven so another I don't know wouldn't hurt to put another four or five or six inches up there I'm assuming so I might have to do that I don't know if I'll get around to it this year now I've got too many other things on the girl so I'll just have to cook with the fire in the oven for now and deal with the smoke and then start over in the spring oh well it would not be complete without failures as well as successes so this is one of the failures that have to learn from and move on and make it successful next time

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