Category: Cob Oven

Most people recognize the cob oven as an excellent method of cooking pizza. While this is true, there are so many other things that these ovens are capable of, as you will see below. Cob…

When you first start using a cob oven, you see the heat stored in the oven wall as an opportunity. The list of things you can cook in them is massive. When oven days arrive,…

The cob oven operates in extreme conditions with intense fire in the oven chamber, while the external surface should only be warm to the touch. This temperature difference is no easy design feat, but the…

We generally associate the termite with trouble. Termites can be destructive little things, but they are also a great source of very useful building materials for us. Termite mound clay is a terrific ingredient that…

The cob oven is a wonderful technology that suits good times. There are two types to consider, and they offer different cooking methods to the user. This article details both styles’ good and bad points,…

All things intended to last a long time should have some design aspect integrated into the building of that thing. Cob ovens are no different. To design a cob oven, a list of desired attributes…

A cob oven base should be at least the thickness of the walls but will perform far better with 1.5 times the thickness of the oven walls. The base will perform well if it is…

No, cob ovens don’t require fire bricks at all. They are useful, but absolutely not a necessary component. There are methods of design that do the same thing as the fire brick at very little…

The whole concept of the cob oven relies on pushing heat into the cob oven wall with fire and holding that heat in the structure for as long as possible. It is logical to maximize…