This wood fired pizza/bread oven has its own hot water system. The crossvaulted base of the oven is made from bush stones and found half bricks. The floor and landing of the oven is made from fire bricks. The dome of the oven is made from halfbricks with an easily fabricated specialtool for forming the dome. The oven door was a found furnace door but it's easy to fabricate your own (see the Rosby oven below). The effectiveness of this type of oven relies on thermal mass. It is very well insulated. The hot water system consists of a spiral of 18 metres of 3/4'' (20mm) copper pipe, an old copper storage tank and copper header tank. Water comes from a high spring half a k away.

This oven was the first thing I built after being burnt out by a bush fire in 2013. The fire had taken out my 1976 handmade house. At the end of each day I was always black from soot and not only needed a place to cook but also wanted to be clean. The thermal mass meant that I only had to light the oven every 4 days. Once it was fired up properly, a process that took most of the day (at least 5 hours), there was so much thermal mass that the water would boil and stay hot for 4 days. This video combines several more detailed videos of the oven building process. Links to these other videos can be found here [http://duckdigital.net/Wheoh/] along with others relating to the process of building a small (offgrid) house in a remote part of Australia, the Warrumbungle mountains.

The next oven was made at a Mudgee winery (Rosby Wines) and the process is documented here:    • How we built the Rosby wood fired piz...  

You can also see the workshop about how to cook in the Rosby oven:    • Cooking in a Wood Fired Oven, with Da...  

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