{"id":39,"date":"2008-02-19T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T19:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrenleecohen.com\/bread\/bread-ovens\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T17:17:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T01:17:29","slug":"bread-ovens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/bread\/bread-ovens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread ovens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are pictures from a August 2010 Bread Oven Building workshop in King City, Ontario. It was a perfect hot and sunny weekend. We had an inspiring crew of 16 participants who were easily able to build two bread ovens in two days. The first oven we built quickly and fired it up the next day to make delicious pizza. We took our time with the second, added a number of details and enjoyed the process of collaborative sculpting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-515\" title=\"laying fire bricks\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070267-450x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070267-450x298.jpg 450w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070267-299x198.jpg 299w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070267.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We began laying our fire bricks on an artistically designed river stone base.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-516\" title=\"mushing the clay\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070285-450x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070285-450x298.jpg 450w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070285-299x198.jpg 299w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070285.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Many feet make easy work of mixing recycled pottery clay,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">clay subsoil, sand and straw into homogeneous cob to build the ovens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-517\" title=\"making clay bricks\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070304-450x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070304-450x298.jpg 450w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070304-299x198.jpg 299w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070304.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We kneaded the cob into loaf size bricks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-518\" title=\"first layer of bricks\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070322-450x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070322-450x298.jpg 450w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070322-299x198.jpg 299w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070322.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We placed the bricks around a form made out of sand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We built it up like an igloo, molding the bricks tightly together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-519\" title=\"second layer of bricks\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070353-450x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070353-450x298.jpg 450w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070353-299x198.jpg 299w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070353.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We added a second layer of bricks for improved strength and heat retention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is essential that all the bricks of both layers are well kneaded together so that there are no air gaps. The structure becomes one monolithic dome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-520\" title=\"sculpting\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070366-450x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070366-450x298.jpg 450w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070366-299x198.jpg 299w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070366.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Artists at work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The forms were dynamic connecting and influencing one another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-514\" title=\"finished oven\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070394-450x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070394-450x298.jpg 450w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070394-299x198.jpg 299w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1070394.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here is our finished oven complete with its oven spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We removed the door and hollowed out the sand after all the sculpting was complete. This facilitated easy refinement of the doorway of the oven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you Leslie and Jamie for organizing the event. Enjoy your oven!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Anita&#8217;s bread oven, Nailsworth, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/P1000575.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/P1000575-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/P1000572.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/P1000572-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/P1000573.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/P1000573-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Emerson College, West Sussex, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/oven1.jpg\" alt=\"Bread oven at Emerson College\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My first two bread ovens were built at the Olympia Waldorf School with children (and parents) in class 3. We built a whole bakery in fact in the kindergarten playground for the children to fire their imaginative play when the oven was not being stoked. Perhaps I will find some photographs\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>I built my next bread oven with 10 Foundation Year Programme students at Emerson College in Sussex, England. We designed and built the oven, roof and patio in the winter which proved quite a challenge for our Ugandan students who had difficult time keeping warm in the process of playing with cob (clay subsoil, sand and straw) in the damp English winter. nevertheless, it was a fabulous creative process and led to many Art of Baking Bread workshops at Emerson, pizza parties and still serves the community at Emerson to this day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wynstones School, Gloucestershire, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dscn4955.JPG\" alt=\"Bread oven at Wynstones\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dscn4938.JPG\" alt=\"Bread oven at Wynstones - detail\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hereford School, Herefordshire, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/breadoven-007.jpg\" alt=\"Herefors bread oven 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/breadoven-008.jpg\" alt=\"Hereford bread oven 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/breadoven-019.jpg\" alt=\"Hereford bread oven 3\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/breadoven-030.jpg\" alt=\"Hereford bread oven 4\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/stonecarving2004-021.jpg\" alt=\"Hereford bread oven 5\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dcp_2546.JPG\" alt=\"Hereford bread oven 6\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Olympia, Washington, US<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/olympia2.jpg\" alt=\"Olympia Bread Oven\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/olympia1.jpg\" alt=\"Olympia Bread Oven\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">I used to have a lovely country home in Olympia Washington where I built a 6 loaf bread oven under two large fir trees. The oven blended in well in the transition between house and garden and added a lovely element of whimsy to the yard. This oven was crafted with the help of my house mates Elinor and Wes with assistance from Ruth Peterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third grade at the Olympia Waldorf School. I baked in this oven weekly and invited many friends to join in for pizza festivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are pictures from a August 2010 Bread Oven Building workshop in King City, Ontario. It was a perfect hot and sunny weekend. We had an inspiring crew of 16 participants who were easily able to build two bread ovens in two days. 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