Build Your Own Earth Oven by Kiko Denzer

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"Build Your Own Earth Oven is the essential book for those who want to do just that....the ample and enjoyable illustrations are a great guide..." - Dan Wing, baker, builder, co-author, The Bread Builders, Hearth Loaves & Masonry Ovens

This is the book that's introduced thousands of people to the beauty of earthen building and the simplicity of making and baking in a wood-fired oven. Anyone who can make mud pies, can make a wood-fired oven out of earth. And they can use it to bake really good bread!

Even a quick oven built in an afternoon will work as well as a $4,000, custom-made brick or ceramic oven. Or take your time and take inspiration from the gallery of ovens; some made in the shape of birds and beasts, some doubling as benches for outdoor "rooms."

In-depth instructions include: locating and mixing materials, building foundations, firing the oven, and making traditional oven tools.

And, of course, bread: follow the simple ten-step procedure for real sourdough hearth loaves, then read on about the basic principles - how and why bread works - and develop a true baker's "feel" for the dough.

Over a hundred drawings by the author, as well as (color) photos of ovens made by many different hands, the author invites you "to be whole and wholly involved...to engage hands, head, and heart in the genesis of new form and relations, to celebrate and renew your self and the world...or just to make a mud oven so you can bake your own bread."