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… Continue reading What can be dried in a Cob Oven?

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,… Continue reading Can a Cob Oven Dehydrate Food?

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… Continue reading What Straw is Best for a Cob Oven Mixture? (Will hay do?)

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… Continue reading Can Termite Mound be used in a Cob Oven Mixture?

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,… Continue reading Cob Oven vs Rocket Stove Cob Oven (what best suits you?)

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… Continue reading How do you Design a Cob Oven? (what’s important)

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… Continue reading How Thick does a Cob Oven base need to be?

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… Continue reading Does a Cob Oven need to use Fire Bricks?

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… Continue reading How Thick does a Cob Oven Wall need to be?

While researching how to make a cob oven 6-7 years ago, it took ages to come up with a final recipe that made sense to me. What I wanted was a cob oven mix that… Continue reading Can Scoria be used in a Cob mix?

We are very fortunate because we had the time and resources to build a cob oven from termite mounds in December 2014. The oven is now seven years old and is in its prime. Our… Continue reading Using Cob Ovens : 11 questions answered

We live in the wet tropics of far north Qld, Australia, and it gets hot up here in the wet season. Humidity can run at 90-100% for several months at a time, and the kitchen… Continue reading Building a Termite Cob Pizza Oven : simple DIY rocket stove build