Well campers, it has been another busy week in the meadow. Dogboy tried out the new oven last Sunday with mixed results. After several hours of firing, the oven only reached 450 degrees. Smoke was escaping from a fine crack in the top, and the vent hole wasn’t drawing air effectively. We could have probably figured out how to cook in there, but it certainly didn’t meet expectations.
You know Sequoia; he has to make it right. It’s that Boy Scout training.
Sequoia and Tom spent yesterday adding layers of mud to the top of the oven and installing a stove pipe in the vent. The theory is that the 3-4 additional inches of mud will provide enough mass to hold the heat. The stovepipe will control airflow, which should make firing more efficient. That’s the theory anyway. We are going to let the oven cure for two weeks and hope to try it out again on July 3. I’ll keep you posted on breaking developments.
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