Articles Comments

Panacea Ranch » Entries tagged with "Kiko"

Building a wood-fired oven out of earth by Scott Alexander

March 28th, 2010 | 5 Comments

Building a wood-fired oven out of earth by Scott Alexander

Ideally you would want to build a stem wall to raise your oven to about waist high. Your base bricks should sit on an insulation layer to reduce the heat loss out of the bottom of you oven. Insulation is air pockets. Think of heat as moving molecules. As the molecules get more excited, they move faster, creating more friction which produces heat. The closer your molecules are, the easier it is for them to … Read entire article »

Filed under: Natural Building