Posts within "In the Kitchen"

Brick Oven - v3.1

v3.1 came about the following weekend, a complete teardown and rebuild of v3.0 which worked fairly well, with some modifications based on lessons learned.
While things were broken down, I took the opportunity to make a couple improvements to the base. Adding 2×4s to the front back face solved the issue that the pallet was [...]

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Brick Oven - v3.0

After the disappointing flop of v2.0, I started thinking about whether or not I was designing the oven in the wrong direction. Instead of building it with a larger footprint and flater, would I be better in building it with a smaller footprint and taller? Heat rises after all, so the notion popped [...]

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Post Mortem - Brick Oven 2.0

While the photo makes the brick oven look really cool and all, unfortunately the results of the first firing were not nearly as good as I had expected or hoped for.
The biggest issue remains the temperature, which I suppose I should not be too surprised about considering everything I have read on the topic of [...]

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