After a lot of hard work we finally reached that milestone of lighting the first fire in our wood-fired oven last Saturday, July 24. Early May when we broke ground and were digging in very cold rain seems like such time ago now. I’ll be writing about more about what it took to get us [...]
Posts under ‘Wood-Fired Oven Project’
Building a Dome
The last time I updated you fair readers on the progress of our wood-fired oven progress was after the Victoria Day long weekend and we had poured the foundation slab that will support the oven. Since then the block stand has gone up, another reinforced concrete slab was poured on top of that, and we [...]
A Strong Foundation
In my April post about building a wood-fired oven I wrote about turning the corner from just talking about the project to actually doing it. As proof that we were getting serious about the endeavour I posted a picture of our ever-expanding resource library that included the plans we intended to use. We now have [...]
Building an Oven
Starting in the summer of 2007 I have been strongly considering the idea of building a wood-fired oven at my family’s cottage north of Toronto. I’ve engaged in a lot of talk and reading though not very much action but this year it has become a family-wide affair and looks like it’s going ahead. I [...]
