|
Q-talk *ON TOPIC ONLY* QUALITY ON TOPIC discussion of Backyard BBQ, grilling, equipment and outdoor cookin' . ** Other cooking techniques are welcomed for when your cookin' in the kitchen. Post your hints, tips, tricks & techniques, success, failures, but stay on topic and watch for that hijacking. |
|
Thread Tools |
12-13-2012, 12:34 AM | #16 |
On the road to being a farker
Join Date: 03-25-11
Location: Nimitz Hill
|
Very Nice, I have a similar build but it is an over under cement pit. One thing, I learned from experience, is that your oven looks greatly insulated underneath, ( I like those bottles ! ) but as you know everything that counts is up above. I had to keep adding tricks to get enough insulation above the pit. My last trick which I really like, was to add the perlite, thermorock to the mortar on the dome. They sell it at home depot a large bag very cheap. It really helps insulate, its like mini volcanic light rocks. You mix it with the mortar / clay and it really insulates. I read about it here somewhere and if you can still add it I recommend it. It can be on the outer or middle layer, doesn't matter.
__________________
" Don't ask me who I am " CENTRIXS |
|
Thanks from:---> |
12-13-2012, 01:01 AM | #17 |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 01-13-10
Location: Houston, TX
|
cool beans man! Looks great.
How high is your entry/arch going to be, compared to the top of the dome? From what I read a while ago, the top of the arch should be 67% of the height of the dome for the best air/heat flow in the oven. Great build thread. I wish I had some of your skills (which explains why my WFO is not mortared!)
__________________
[FONT=Arial Narrow][B]EZ wood handled 3 wheeler | OTS | OTS mod to OTG | [COLOR=red]Ladybug[/COLOR] SS Performer | UglyDrumTandoor | UDS v1 | midi UDS with [COLOR=red]red[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]nipples[/COLOR] | SJG smoker mod | Simpsons SJS | [COLOR=black]Simpsons[/COLOR] OTG | WGA charcoal | SJP | Stacked brick WFO | Lodge Logic Sportsman's Grill cast iron hibachi/sigri | [COLOR=green]LBGE | sbge | [SIZE="1"]mini bge[/SIZE] [/COLOR] [/B][/FONT] |
|
Thanks from:---> |
12-13-2012, 01:25 AM | #18 |
On the road to being a farker
Join Date: 05-14-12
Location: Phoenix, AZ
|
@Guamaque - Thanks! That's actually what I have surrounding the bottles in the insulation layer. It's a mix of perlite with clay slip. Initially I was using sawdust with clay slip, but I found the perlite/clay mixture MUCH easier to work with. After the dome dries out and I cure it, I'm planning on going over the clay dome with the perlite/clay mixture out to the edges of the bricks. That should give me 4-5 inches of insulation around the outside of the dome...hopefully that'll be enough. I'd like to use this for baking/roasting too.
@caliking - The entry/arch is 10.5 inches tall, and the top of the inside of the dome is right at 16 inches. I've read everywhere from 63% - 67% entry to dome height, so I'm roughly 65%...hopefully that will work. If need be, I can close it off by building up clay inside the edges of the entry. Hopefully I don't need to open it up more!
__________________
Backwoods Party / Traeger Lone Star Pellet Cooker / Char-Griller Outlaw / Cob-Style Wood-Fired Pizza Oven Always remember that [COLOR=red][I]you[/I][/COLOR] are [COLOR=red]unique[/COLOR] and [COLOR=red]special[/COLOR], just like [COLOR=red][I]everybody else[/I][/COLOR]. :mrgreen: |
|
Thanks from:---> |
12-13-2012, 05:14 AM | #19 |
On the road to being a farker
Join Date: 03-25-11
Location: Nimitz Hill
|
I have 12 inches of mortar / clay / perlite on the top. And I'm cooking at 275' max. It gets warm , but is good enough. For a pizza oven, you need more for sure.
__________________
" Don't ask me who I am " CENTRIXS |
|
12-13-2012, 08:38 AM | #20 |
Babbling Farker
Join Date: 07-31-12
Location: St. Louis Missouri
|
That's cool. I really want to do that.
__________________
Truth, by definition is narrow and exclusive. -------------- "Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire." - Exodus 12:9 |
|
12-14-2012, 11:25 AM | #21 |
On the road to being a farker
Join Date: 05-14-12
Location: Phoenix, AZ
|
This is just the completion of the clay dome (finally!)
If nothing else, at least I get to take a break for a while, which my back will greatly appreciate. Now all there is to do is wait...wait for it to dry, empty the sand, and fire it a little at a time to cure it. Then insulation and finishing plaster. Hopefully I'll have good news and more photos in a couple of weeks. Thanks for looking!
__________________
Backwoods Party / Traeger Lone Star Pellet Cooker / Char-Griller Outlaw / Cob-Style Wood-Fired Pizza Oven Always remember that [COLOR=red][I]you[/I][/COLOR] are [COLOR=red]unique[/COLOR] and [COLOR=red]special[/COLOR], just like [COLOR=red][I]everybody else[/I][/COLOR]. :mrgreen: |
|
12-14-2012, 01:11 PM | #22 |
Wandering around with a bag of matchlight, looking for a match.
Join Date: 12-12-12
Location: long beach, ca
|
man i love it. been thinking about doing this too. i'm still a non searchable noob. I need to dig up some info. anyways it looks great, i can't wait to see some pics of pizza firing in there.
|
|
12-14-2012, 04:54 PM | #23 | |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 01-13-10
Location: Houston, TX
|
Quote:
still lookin' good! I think you should be okay. With my leaky non-mortared build, I can hit 900°+ with a few pieces of split wood. You may already know this from your research, but I think the clay needs to dry out slowly, so may need to be covered with wet burlap or newspaper as it dries, or even hosed down intermittently. I may not be 100% right, so you may want to check. would hate for you to find cracks as it dries.
__________________
[FONT=Arial Narrow][B]EZ wood handled 3 wheeler | OTS | OTS mod to OTG | [COLOR=red]Ladybug[/COLOR] SS Performer | UglyDrumTandoor | UDS v1 | midi UDS with [COLOR=red]red[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]nipples[/COLOR] | SJG smoker mod | Simpsons SJS | [COLOR=black]Simpsons[/COLOR] OTG | WGA charcoal | SJP | Stacked brick WFO | Lodge Logic Sportsman's Grill cast iron hibachi/sigri | [COLOR=green]LBGE | sbge | [SIZE="1"]mini bge[/SIZE] [/COLOR] [/B][/FONT] |
|
|
12-14-2012, 05:12 PM | #24 |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 08-24-08
Location: Los Angeles
|
Nice build! Looks to be efficient with the ideal entry/dome ceiling ratio.
I did the same thing on my build, used an angle iron instead of an arch for the entry.
__________________
....UDS....Mini-WSM....Midi-WSM....Mod-ECB....22.5-OTG....34"wood fired pizza oven.... Last edited by Carbon; 12-14-2012 at 05:32 PM.. |
|
Thread Tools | |
|
|