I pay 24 bucks per 1x 100L bag (3.53 cu-ft), you will need more of them for insulating of the whole oven as per below described quantities.

What is Vermiculite? Insulation applications.

Where to buy vermiculite insulation? Best places to find vermiculite containing products, or most importantly dry loose-fill vermiculite insulation in bags, are large landscaping yards (because in horticulture the vermiculite, as well as Perlite, are used to prevent soil compaction or as soil conditioner/amendment after adding a composting matter.) Pool shops and businesses that build and install swimming pools also work with large quantities of vermiculite.

Then obviously those who work with different kinds of insulation materials. Such as; refractory firms (handling mostly refractory and high-temperature insulation) or factories producing (more…)

Hi All. I started and finished building this earth cob oven last year. I kept visiting a building site every day to get the clay/mud mix and then would spend 4-5 hours in the evening treading and mixing the sand with it. Article about how to use a local fire clay collected in the nature for building clay pizza ovens. So far we have cooked pizza’s, bread and roast potatoes, Mediterranean vegetables and roast lamb with garlic and rosemary. It’s amazing pizza’s cook in about two minutes when the oven is really hot. Gauging the temperature is a process of trial and error. I now wait until the outside gets warm before starting the (more…)

So now it’s winter.  That doesn’t mean you are going to stop cooking in your WFO does it ?  Of course not …. While cold weather can affect the fire in your oven, it can have an even bigger affect on the oven operator. Get a warm , non flammable coat that you can sacrifice … there will be soot! I draw my line in the snow at -20C , below that I prefer to (more…)

Hello to all, this oven design is FANTASTIC to say the least. Here’s a few shots of the oven, pizza, leg of lamb, YUMMY! I am SO glad I went with this, I fire up at 10:30 Sat. Morning after coffee, get things ready for pizza at noon, prep the bread for after pizza time while the wife gets going on what she wants to roast for dinner. Cooking time well organized. It is so easy, and the cooking time with all the insulation effort has been well worth it. After cooking dinner one Sat., I closed the oven door, Sunday, LATE afternoon, around 6 pm I went to the oven, opened the door to check the temp, it was still at (more…)

Simple pizza. It’s now Autumn here and we’ve just enjoyed a happy and successful day of fun with our oven (building progress). Family were coming over for lunch so I started the fire at around 8.15 in the morning. Because of the fairly large amount of mass to heat it does take a while for the soot to disappear from the inside of the oven. Possibly I was not adding enough mass of wood. A note on firewood. I have been using very dry Yellow Box Eucalypt which is very dense and gives very good heat. Belinda had been busy making dough and by midday we (more…)

The base slab as part of a long wall. After ordering the CD’s from Rado I started building with the slab in November 2009 and had the first firings in March 2010. Because this is part of a larger south-facing garden project we decided to build it into one of the walls. It’s been a stimulating and at times challenging project although now we’ve had the first pizzas it has been worth it. Now I’m onto the new learning curve not just of how the oven behaves but also (more…)

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