A Weekend Project-Adobe Outdoor Oven

[Kathy]

Sunset's classic Adobe Oven
Your step-by-step guide to building and using your own backyard adobe oven

In response to reader requests, we decided to bring back one of our most popular projects: the adobe oven, first featured in our August 1971 issue. It's modeled after mud-brick ovens used around the world, from the Southwest to Mexico, Italy, and France.


Building it takes about two days of grubby work; it speeds up building to have two or three people making the thick-walled adobe shell, the mass of which stores the heat of the fire.

The reward: wonderfully rustic pizzas, roasts, vegetables, and crusty loaves of bread from your own backyard. To get started, click on the links below.

Materials & Tools

Step by Step Directions

Oven Heating Guide

Adobe Oven Overview & Recipes

[bostonlesley]

Terrific post..THANK YOU !!

[bergere]

Oh,, I love it. Wonder how it would hold up in this wet clime??

[Kathy]

Bergere, from everything I've read, it seems that cured adobe is a good substance in damp or wet areas.
There's a lot of houses in FL built of Adobe and that's about as damp as it gets. ;D

Here's a Q & A about adobe and greenbuilding that might help answer your questions.

www.greenhomebuilding.com/QandA/naturalbuildingQandA.htm#heat

[Deleted]

Kathy that's great. I've been wanting to make something like this for years. I have a bread book that has several plans for similar things.

[Kathy]

This adobe oven and the solar cooker are the first two projects on the new land! ;D

[auntieemu]

Kathy is going to have a patio and outdoor kitchen first. Then when she gets that the way she wants she will attach a house.............

[Kathy]

auntieemu said:

Kathy is going to have a patio and outdoor kitchen first. Then when she gets that the way she wants she will attach a house.............

Actually that's exactly what the plan is!! Is that weird or what?

Outdoor Kitchen, Gardens, Orchard, storm shelter, then a house. ;D

[chilipalmer]

admin said:

Outdoor Kitchen, Gardens, Orchard, storm shelter, then a house. ;D

I was posting to say you've got it as it should be, but then I noticed something. Where's the COOP?

[auntieemu]

She's waiting til she learns more about NAIS

[bobclark]

I have to have one of those

[Kathy]

I forgot to add, along the way we'll be fencing the perimeter both to keep my future critters in and hopefully every other marauding critter out.. Then the individual coops & runs will be built. For a change, I'm actually going to have things in place & built before I bring home poultry or livestock. ;D


btw, I have had fire baked pizza and it was awesome. I can't wait to bake that first loaf of hearth bread!. ;D

This is a book I'm really anxious to get

The Bread Builders