How to Build a Cob Oven

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  • čas přidán 28. 11. 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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Komentáře • 34

  • @buttonvalley
    @buttonvalley Před 10 měsíci +3

    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 Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @saltybildo9448
    @saltybildo9448 Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @resilientrecoveryministries
    @resilientrecoveryministries Před 7 měsíci +1

    Great explanation!

  • @ponyrang
    @ponyrang Před rokem

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

  • @peetsnort
    @peetsnort Před rokem +2

    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.

  • @paulsullivan3549
    @paulsullivan3549 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @winstonhackett
    @winstonhackett Před 4 lety +5

    Aren't the walls a bit thin?

  • @liberty5565
    @liberty5565 Před 2 lety +2

    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 Před rokem

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

    • @SignatureEdits
      @SignatureEdits Před 11 měsíci

      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

  • @Tony-Blake
    @Tony-Blake Před 4 lety +12

    Information starts at 1:17

  • @vinny9988
    @vinny9988 Před 2 lety +1

    Did this oven survive?

  • @behnodm1124
    @behnodm1124 Před 4 lety

    goooood

  • @maureenfernando4033
    @maureenfernando4033 Před 4 lety

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

    • @nighttraveler9993
      @nighttraveler9993 Před 2 lety

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

  • @JBattler
    @JBattler Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @sonofplato
      @sonofplato Před 3 lety +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 Před rokem

      3:57

  • @gaidroroganikora1384
    @gaidroroganikora1384 Před 2 lety

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

  • @andrewprahst2529
    @andrewprahst2529 Před 3 lety +3

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

    • @georgevanhoose6333
      @georgevanhoose6333 Před 2 lety +3

      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 Před 2 lety

    Donot even use bricks or rubbles and the results are similar

  • @SHGRetro
    @SHGRetro Před 4 lety +6

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

    • @catbus9127
      @catbus9127 Před rokem +1

      With hay for added strength

    • @kamifaye
      @kamifaye Před 7 měsíci

      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 Před 3 lety +1

    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 Před rokem

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

    • @Exploreasaurus
      @Exploreasaurus Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @phildobson8705
    @phildobson8705 Před 4 lety

    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 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @robertmoffattrob122
    @robertmoffattrob122 Před rokem

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