A quick run around the garden reveals that the black currants are still a week away from ready...
...and the first-of-the-season apples, 3 weeks off.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Pizza night
I've fired up the cob oven and we're ready to bake.
A quick run around the garden reveals that the black currants are still a week away from ready...
A quick run around the garden reveals that the black currants are still a week away from ready...
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How long do you fire up your oven? I have just built a brick one and now need to learn how to use it.
Ours takes 30 minutes to get to optimum temperature but uses very little wood. We cooked 5 pizzas last night. I use the ash to sprinkle around my fruit trees. I've a friend, Dave Clapp, who builds brick ovens and uses his regularly. I can put you in touch if you'd like.
I have had some small fires and now just need to crank things up to get it to maximum heat for pizzas. Its 4 inches of fire brick, 3 inches of insulating concrete and another 4 inches of concrete over the top. It seems to take about an hour but is still very warm next morning. I have some family who are wanting to put it to the test so will let you know. Travelled around Italy some time ago and the real pizzas are so different than what we get served in NZ.
Sounds massive!
We have visitors from countries that make great pizza so have been treated to some delicious examples of the true art.
Changed my profile pic to one I took of the Silbury Hill in Wiltshire in the UK in June. Extremely interesting area. Got the following info off the Internet.
Composed mainly of chalk and clay excavated from the surrounding area, the mound stands 40 metres (131 ft) high[4] and covers about 5 acres (2 ha). It is a display of immense technical skill and prolonged control over labour and resources. Archaeologists calculate that Silbury Hill was built about 4,750 years ago and that it took 18 million man-hours, or 500 men working for 15 years (Atkinson 1974:128) to deposit and shape 248,000 cubic metres (324,000 cu yd) of earth and fill on top of a natural hill. Euan W. Mackie asserts that no simple late Neolithic tribal structure as usually imagined could have sustained this and similar projects, and envisages an authoritarian theocratic power elite with broad-ranging control across southern Britain
I meant to ask you about your new avatar. It's astonishing! I'm left though wondering, why???
Was it needed as a watch-tower?
Does it contain a barrow?
Odd our blackcurrants are all ripe...
Hmmmmm.....
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