Our first loaf of sourdough in the new oven. Next up, pizza!

Here is the finished oven! Kent wanted the firebricks to stick out a bit so he could stick a metal dustpan underneath the lip to catch ash, which meant I couldn’t build the plaster out in the front. But I’m glad that I rubbed a super-thin coat of plaster onto the front of the “bricks” that the oven is built on, because it gives the stove a much more unified look now that it is all one color. Obviously, sawhorses aren’t the most aesthetically pleasing way to build an earth oven, but we are still REALLY happy with it! I put a picture of the stove before the plaster layer (and before the insulation layer) below this picture so that you could compare without having to go to the previous post. I think it makes a BIG difference!

You can follow our pizza oven adventures right HERE.