How to Build a Cob Oven

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  • Опубліковано 28 лис 2019
  • 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
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  • @buttonvalley
    @buttonvalley 8 місяців тому +2

    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
      @saltybildo9448 4 місяці тому

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

  • @resilientrecoveryministries
    @resilientrecoveryministries 5 місяців тому +1

    Great explanation!

  • @saltybildo9448
    @saltybildo9448 4 місяці тому

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

  • @ponyrang
    @ponyrang Рік тому

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

  • @paulsullivan3549
    @paulsullivan3549 4 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @Tony-Blake
    @Tony-Blake 4 роки тому +12

    Information starts at 1:17

  • @winstonhackett
    @winstonhackett 4 роки тому +5

    Aren't the walls a bit thin?

  • @vinny9988
    @vinny9988 2 роки тому +1

    Did this oven survive?

  • @peetsnort
    @peetsnort Рік тому

    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.

  • @gaidroroganikora1384
    @gaidroroganikora1384 2 роки тому

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

  • @behnodm1124
    @behnodm1124 4 роки тому

    goooood

  • @liberty5565
    @liberty5565 Рік тому +1

    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
      @robinchwan Рік тому

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

    • @SignatureEdits
      @SignatureEdits 8 місяців тому

      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

  • @maureenfernando4033
    @maureenfernando4033 3 роки тому

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

    • @nighttraveler9993
      @nighttraveler9993 2 роки тому

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

  • @JBattler
    @JBattler 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @sonofplato
      @sonofplato 3 роки тому +1

      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
      @thegrumpyhorticulturist Рік тому

      3:57

  • @andrewprahst2529
    @andrewprahst2529 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @georgevanhoose6333
      @georgevanhoose6333 2 роки тому +2

      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
    @banyadas2143 2 роки тому

    Donot even use bricks or rubbles and the results are similar

  • @SHGRetro
    @SHGRetro 4 роки тому +6

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

    • @catbus9127
      @catbus9127 Рік тому

      With hay for added strength

    • @kamifaye
      @kamifaye 5 місяців тому

      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
    @sonofplato 3 роки тому

    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
    @thewalkingrob8840 9 місяців тому

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

    • @Exploreasaurus
      @Exploreasaurus 8 місяців тому

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

  • @phildobson8705
    @phildobson8705 4 роки тому

    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
      @sonofplato 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @robertmoffattrob122
    @robertmoffattrob122 Рік тому

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