Build Your Own Earth Oven, 3rd Edition: A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves |  | Authors: Kiko Denzer, Hannah Field
Publisher: Hand Print Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 6,587
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3 Rev Exp
Pages: 132
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 096798467X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780967984674
ASIN: 096798467X
Publication Date: April 2007
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Product Description
Kiko Denzer and Hannah Field, maker and baker, invite you into the artisan tradition. First, build a masonry oven out of mud. Then mix flour and water for real bread better than anything you can buy. Total cost? Hardly more than a baking stone and it can cook everything else, from 2-minute pizza to holiday fowl, or a weeks meals.
Clear, abundant drawings and photos clarify every step of the process, from making oven mud, to fire, and to bread. Informative text puts it all into context with artisan traditions of many ages & cultures. Beautifully sculpted ovens (by the author and readers) will inspire the artist in anyone. And the simple, 4 step recipe (based on professional and homestead experience) promises authentic hearth loaves for anyone, on any schedule.
From weekend gardeners to "simple living," back-to-the-landers; Peace Corps volunteers to neighborhood community-builders; third-graders to earth-artists of all ages, this book feeds many hungers!
updated, expanded, re-written, & revised.
foreword by Alan Scott, the grandfather of wood-fired ovens and artisan bread.
super-insulated design holds heat longer with less wood burned.
8 pages of color photos.
Plus: mobile ovens, rocket mass heaters for the home, hay-box cookers, and more.
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 Summer Camp Hit January 12, 2003
54 out of 56 found this review helpful
I ran a summer family camp in July 2002 and built the smaller oven in one day. I had kids from age two to fifty two stomping the clay, sand, hay and water with thier feet. I set fire in the oven on day two and made our first loaf of bread. The directions are easy to follow and was a hit with my fourty campers. I would highly recommend this book. A great family or group activity! Loved it.
Bread, Beauty, and Integrity December 26, 2000
Catherine Knott (Corvallis, OR, USA)
50 out of 52 found this review helpful
Reading Kiko Denzer's book for the second time this December, as I thought about friends who would most enjoy a copy as a present, I was struck again by the artistic beauty and integrity of the book as a whole. Unlike most manuals, Denzer talks about life, not just bread, or ovens, or art. The sculptural ovens delight the eye; the color photos and flowing drawings inspire. The instructions are clear and suffused with a philosophy of simple, harmonious living. Quotes add an unexpected depth. Finally, the explanation of bread-making science and technique makes a full circle of the various experiences of making, eating, and living. The design and excellent presentation has drawn positive comments from friends, anthropologists, ecologists, as well as visitors and professional community workers from Mali, Tunisia, Japan, England, Ireland. Another friend, after seeing the book, went home with plans to build an oven for the intentional community where she lives. As a Peace Corps Volunteer, I helped people build improved cook stoves (out of earth) in West Africa. Now, as an anthropologist, professor, trainer, and returned Volunteer I especially appreciate instructional texts that respect traditions of living within material limits. I would highly recommend this book, not only to home bakers and builders, but particularly to teachers and others who work in community settings.
amazing! September 27, 2003
robi dawson (Budapest, Hungary)
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
I read the book, and immediately wanted to build an oven.Wonderfully written and easy to follow. It was so easy in fact that i was able to build my oven, with the help of my 10 year old son over the summer. Man hours totatled about 30. I will now build a friends oven as a surprsie next weekend! IT is that easy! Read this book and you too will realize that you can indeed built your own oven, easily, cheaply and with fun for all involved. *Build your own Earth Oven* is simply AMAZING!
The Book for Building an Earthen Oven!!! August 12, 2005
gemini_pearl (Backwoods, USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
A+++! This book is the perfect guide to building your own earthen oven, adding on a hand sculpted design, and it even shows you other design options. It has everything you need for the basics of making a working earthen oven and then leaves tons of room for your own creativity and design ideas. I really loved this book and we have already built a small prototype. The author combines logic and science with creativity and art, you have to love it!
For the adventurous do-it-yourself hobbyist April 5, 2001
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
34 out of 39 found this review helpful
In Build Your Own Earth Oven: A Low-Cost, Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves, Kiko Denzer offers readers clearly presented, step-by-step instructions for building a superbly effective, wood-fired oven out of common backyard soil. The informative, "reader friendly" text is profusely illustrated with drawings and photos. There is a simple presentation on the principles and procedure for making authentic sourdough bread, as well as directions for oven-firing and references on food, baking, and building. A unique "how to" manual, Build Your Own Earth Oven will prove to be of enormous interest for the environmentally resource conscious, the adventurous do-it-yourself hobbyists, and back-to-nature, simple life enthusiasts!
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