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Stone Bake Ovens

Building an Horno: the Adobe Bread Oven
by Michael Moquin - Detailed adobe instructions.

Greg's Earth Oven
Good adobe oven building instructions with illustrations.

Ben's Art - nice selection of clay ovens modeled on "Bread Ovens of Quebec"

Ovens by Rado Hand. He has an extensive Wood Burning Oven Website, including oven plans,
pizza instructions, and more. Highly recommended for amateur oven builders.

Oven built by Mike Iapalucci from Rado Hand's plans. Detailed constructions photos.

Portable cob oven in France - detailed constuction photos, instructions en francais

Ovencrafters - simple, high efficiency insulated design developed by Alan Scott. Proven in a range of sizes and applications including home, restaurants and bakeries. Click on Alan to join him for a seminar.

Click here to order. by Daniel Wing and Alan Scott Definitive work on authentic hearth breads. Includes instructions for building a backyard bake oven. "Wing and Scott do more than get the details right: they get the right details. It is difficult for me to imagine any baker, amateur or professional, coming away from this book without having learned something significant, even profound, about the art of bread baking." -Thom Leonard, author of The Bread Book Woodfiredpizza.org Good site with instructions for an Alan Scott style oven. Brick Oven Map on Google August Vanderdonckt writes: The map allows brick oven fans to find out if they are close to somebody who already has one. It enables people to upload pictures, communicate with each other directly and locate ovens geographically. August Vanderdonckt's detailed photo record of building an Alan Scott oven. Frankie G's Pizza Oven Project - good photo record and pizza info. Tom's oven. Build Your Own Earth Oven (3rd Edition) Click here to order A simple, fully-illustrated handbook for making an oven from earthen materials (similar to adobe and cob). Provides clear, step-by-step instructions for building and firing the oven. Also complete directions for making sourdough bread in the best (and simplest) artisan tradition.  Click here to order This unique study of the role of the bread oven in rural Quebec society also gives complete instructions on how to build a traditional outdoor bread oven. 115 pages, many illustrations. More Books on Baking and Masonry

• Russian Bake Oven Drawings

30 pages
2Mb pdf file




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(above) Amish style "Squirrel Tail" oven at Old Salem, NC- see MHA 2000 Meeting for some details. on this, and on a backyard pizza oven workshop.

• BlackOven
  Good site by a brick oven enthusiast, including recipes and baking info.
• Castable Oven
  step-by-step construction photos of a refractory concrete oven.
  
  

(above) Backyard oven by Phil Connor, Britain.

• Traditional French Oven - from Gasogne region, southwest of Bordeaux. Similar shape to Quebec oven, built from brick. A well-illustrated CD (in French) on brick dome oven construction is available from this web site.
• Cob Oven - An Experiment in Progress
  Interesting oven experiments, including a novel firing technique
• Catamount Brick Ovens - Peter Moore Masonry Inc. builds domestic beehive ovens throughout the Northeast.
• Electric Brick Ovens
  • Small Domestic - by Breadstone
  • Large Domestic - at Masonry Stove Builders
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  Fireplace/ Bakeoven Combo - Family room fireplace preheats kitchen bakeoven. Rammed earth house, Saltspring Island, BC. Phillip Van Horn, architect. Richard Dakin, mason
• Kitchen Cooking Fireplace with Bakeoven - by Biofire
• Masonry heater bakeoven feedback from Bill Derrick

Bakeoven by Doug Wood. Click on image for more information

Commercial Ovens

Traditional French commercial ovens

• Little Stream - 4 foot by 6 foot hearth, this oven was producing 1800 loaves per week at Little Stream Bakery near Perth, Ontario.

• Montreal Matzoh Oven Rebuild - Rebuild of a large gas/wood hybrid oven
• Building Heather's Oven - construction sequence of an Alan Scott style 4' X 6' oven.
• drawings of a traditional French commercial design with a separate firebox.
• 1930's - 1950's Finnish Commercial - This double deck design was presented at the 1997 MHA meeting by Heikki Hyytiainen and is from a 1951 book from Finland.
• Oven by Pat Manley - construction photos.
• Catamount Brick Ovens - Peter Moore Masonry Inc. builds commercial restaurant ovens throughout the Northeast. Link to his website

Spanish Llopis oven with revolving hearth, Acme Bakery, Berkley. The Farjas is similar.

• German 1930's Commercial - this plan is from a German masonry textbook from the 1930's.
• 1900's American - the oven at Black Diamond bakery in Washington state has been in continuous use for over 90 years. It has a 10 foot by 12 foot hearth. Photos.

Sourdough Calculator

Excel spreadsheet template that simplifies "baker's percentage" sourdough calculations

Interesting Links

The Bread Bakers' Forum
Comprehensive website maintained by Beth Hinkle . Includes brick oven page, including list of builders, manufacturers, websites, books, articles.

The Bread Bakers Guild of America

San Francisco Baking Institute
Bread baking classes and bakery consulting

Cafe Beaujolais - great place, great website. They have an early Alan Scott oven.

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