The Bread Oven

Last week i found photos of a Finnish house restoration Blip where they were dismantling the brick bread oven. How sad. It reminded me that there was work to do to complete mine so for the weekend I have been doing some of the brickwork which will be filled with a fireproof ceramic blanket and an infill of cement vermiculite insulation. I have considered knapping some flints to cover the dome from the present brickwork level after the insulation is complete.

The dome will be treated in the same way and after a suitable hardening off period it will be fired up for its first baking session. Bread, Pizzas, cooking nicely in the wood embers of the oven. My mouth is watering for that first batch of bread.

Next to the oven you can see the smokers wooden door which produces smoked fish and meat, cheese and hopefully smoked beef and ham joints to be later finished of in the oven in a suitable iron pot. *reminder make sure pot fits into the oven - I haven't checked yet??