This is a somewhat random list of sites and sources of information--mostly free. It also bounces around between earthen and brick ovens, traditional and modern, simple and complex. If you have any recommendations, let me know! -- Kiko The Masonry Heater Association's oven page: A goldmine! Le Four a pain de Jean-Marie: Mobile ovens ala Francaise Brick oven plans: free from Forno Bravo (vendor of hi-end modular ovens) "Nifty, easy-to-make (earth) oven": the quick and dirty version, as printed in Mother Earth News in 02 (before I got really serious about insulation!) Bread . . .
Dan Wing on Trailers for Mobile Ovens
Much as I try to discourage them (see pp 98-101 of Build Your Own Earth Oven, 3d ed.), lots of people want to put their oven on a trailer and tow it long distances at high speed. Dan Wing, co-author of The Bread Builders and builder of fine gypsy trailers, as well as the maker of a well-travelled oven, kindly wrote up a thoughtful and practical set of notes on the safe and proper construction of hi-speed auto-trailers suitable for heavy ovens. It's a downloadable word file that you can get by clicking here: Oven trailers. If you want to read the 2004 NY Times article that featured Dan and his . . .
Mural Video, student-made, Woodburn High, 2005
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