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Build Your Own Barrel Oven

Original price was: $20.00.Current price is: $18.00.

Buy the book, build the oven! Simple and versatile, especially for a high-volume outdoor kitchen that needs to be able to quickly adjust their oven to higher or lower temps

Description

The Barrel Oven is a practical, efficient, and affordable wood-fired oven that can be hot and ready to bake within 20 minutes of lighting a fire, and with minimal feeding, will easily maintain a constant temperature. Max and Eva Edleson’s comprehensive guide walks you through every step of the process, from planning to mixing mud and building and then firing and baking.

Barrel ovens transform local, low-cost materials and the sun’s energy into good food. They have anchored small-scale baking enterprises and community wood-fired cuisine, including bread, roasts, pizza, cookies, cakes, pies, casseroles and stews. 

Highlights:

  • Step-by-step instruction.
  • Photos and drawings, from process to completed ovens.
  • Siting/planning outdoor kitchens.
  • Guidance in deciding which kind of wood-fired oven is best for you.
  • Interviews with experienced Barrel Oven bakers.
  • Recipes!

Praise for Build Your Own Barrel Oven:

“Eva and Max Edleson are highly skilled both as builders and as bakers, but what really shines through in this book is their excellence as communicators. They clearly present varied methods and materials, with very helpful discussions of the pros and cons of each option. Other builder’s voices really round out the presentation. This is a book that will likely inspire you to build your own oven, and make you feel like you have experienced mentors walking you step-by-step through the process.”

–Sandor Ellix Katz, Author of Wild Fermentation, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, and The Art of Fermentation.

Max and Eva Edleson offer up this barrel oven as a marriage of native, natural materials with industrial waste. The result is a beautiful and useful appliance that combines the appeal and advantages of wood fire with the quick heat of an American industrialized kitchen.

What?! A wood-fired oven that can bake bread 20 minutes after you light the fire?

Yup. And it can be cheap, too, especially if you can do simple metal work yourself. And your kids can help you do the mud work.

The more people get interested in wood-fired cooking, sustainability, and traditional ways of eating, the more important it is to have options, examples, and choices. Here’s a great contribution for back-yard bakers serving family and friends, primitive out-back chefs cooking for large groups and gatherings, or a small, wood-fired business in need of a versatile oven. Good stuff!

— Kiko Denzer, author, Build Your Own Earth Oven: A Low-Cost, Wood-Fired Mud Oven, Simple Sourdough Bread, Perfect Loaves.

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from the publisher

Hand Print Press began in the early 90s, when I self-published Build Your Own Earth Oven. I was thinking of myself as a capital A  Artist. However, the garden and other teachers taught me that art merely means “to fit together” — it’s how the world works — flora, fauna, humans — all must fit themselves together, with each other, with the landscape, with wind and weather. In addition to the bookstore (which now includes a few other authors), the site contains stories and updates on ovens, heat, baking, beauty, agriculture, fire, community, culture, (spoon) carving, etc. It’s all art! Thanks for visiting.
— Kiko Denzer