How to Build a Cob Oven

Interested in cooking your own pizza, flatbread and more outside in your woodlands?? Well here one of our Agents, David Alty assisted by some very helpful volunteers, will show you how to build a cob oven, for you to do just that. You will see all the different stages of production from creating the cooking floor using wine bottles as insulation to mixing clay and creating your correctly proportioned cob oven.
A film for woodlands.co.uk

[@buttonvalley]

I wish people would not think of cob ovens as only good for making pizza. Ovens like this were used for centuries before pizza was ever thought up. Loaves of bread are wonderful out of a clay oven, and were the main product baked in them.

[@saltybildo9448]

I'm in Florida and about to make one after KZbin research,same thing happened with my chicken shack. KZbin is amazing lol

[@saltybildo9448]

I think this is the only vid I've seen explaining the theory behind no chimney,I did know 63% though thnx man

[@resilientrecoveryministries]

Great explanation!

[@ponyrang]

Wow, Beautiful Upload friend. keep it up. Thank you for sharing this to us. Greetings from Korea

[@peetsnort]

What is interesting is the pioneer of the African continent of Dutch they'd find a suitable termite mound and just dig out the oven for bread. Sort of like a disposable oven. The termites might have rebuilt the mound but I'm not sure.

[@paulsullivan3549]

Brilliant. In all my years in the masonry craft I have never seen mud mixed with the tarp method you used! Loved the glass bottles as insulators.

[@winstonhackett]

Aren't the walls a bit thin?

[@liberty5565]

why not use the clay/sand for the cooking surface? looks like a fun project. Love using sand as a form for the dome. I was thinking of far more complicated than I needed to. KISS really is true. regardless, this opens up to tons of ideas.

[@robinchwan]

i'm guessing those other stones radiate heat better than simple concrete. ( meaning crispier yet soft inside crust )

[@SignatureEdits]

It's actually because the clay mix will break up and a high abrasion area like the floor will leave little bits of cobb in your pizzas! The bricks are harder and will stand the test of time much better. @@robinchwan

[@Tony-Blake]

Information starts at 1:17

[@vinny9988]

Did this oven survive?

[@behnodm1124]

goooood

[@sonofplato]

Pish!

[@maureenfernando4033]

Should we use a bit of cement with the clay for binding

[@nighttraveler9993]

don't cement cracks is not fire resistant, some uses dry grass

[@JBattler]

Why not put the chimney near the front to let the smoke out above the cook?

[@sonofplato]

A cob doesn't have a chimney, it all vents via the door. Simples. If you BBQ do you have a chimney ir share your stank with the neighbors? A cob at least recircs some fumes.

[@thegrumpyhorticulturist]

3:57

[@gaidroroganikora1384]

Kam raraba ibukin rabakumi aei ao akea te kanganga ba ea roko i Kiribati rabakaumi aei . Thank you

[@andrewprahst2529]

You don't use a chimney because cob isn't a good insulator? That sounds so inefficient.

[@georgevanhoose6333]

He's saying that if there were a chimney, all the hot air would simply escape out the back and there would be no good insulation to hold the heat. By building the door high enough, it provides an outlet for hot gas, which draws heat through the entire roof of the oven.

[@banyadas2143]

Donot even use bricks or rubbles and the results are similar

[@SHGRetro]

You use earth clay not manufactured clay and it should be wet when adding to the sand!

[@catbus9127]

With hay for added strength

[@kamifaye]

I was looking for something like this- though I am sure the manufactured clay could work, I was confused when he said you have to dry clay soil when making cob? I thought you used it just normally, no drying needed?

[@sonofplato]

My old Grandad could and did build cobs to cook and eat freshly caught fish into the 1970s when he was well into his seventies. We used riverbank materials for, granted, a single use cob but often shared by other fishers and could on occasion be there the next fishing weekend. Old school skills from a knowledgeable generation. Funny watching these new age hippy, greenistoviromentalists try to reinvent the the wheel. All our forefathers had access to newspapers, mostly the redtops of course to "make a lining" 😆🙄

[@thewalkingrob8840]

Why are these always build up high it seems like a huge unnecessary step but maybe there is a reason

[@Exploreasaurus]

To stop moisture from the ground affecting the stricture and causing moulding.

[@phildobson8705]

Why not use very thin ply board as a former? Sand in your pizza is not nice for your teeth and could cause permanent damage. Teeth are like pearls, take care of them

[@sonofplato]

@James Parker just as our sncestors did. News of the World was common in medieval times for cobs. 🙄 give me strength.

[@robertmoffattrob122]

Looked better with the brick look and then you smoothed it out .