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Wood-Fired Ovens

Making Pizzas in a Masonry Heater

What a pleasure to help a family get to know their masonry heater by making pizzas with them! We want more people to know that masonry heaters are not only the best way to heat your home with wood but also offer many options for cooking food throughout the cold months of the year!

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The Pizza Farm Concept

Building an oven on a farm is a great way to generate business and create community! “Pizza Farms” are becoming popular venues where people can go to have excellent wood-fired pizzas topped with fresh farm-to-table ingredients and enjoy the country environment.

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Brick Choices

Your choice of brick for a project will have a big impact on the final feel. There are two principle suppliers of brick in the Willamette Valley. Willamette Graystone supplies brick from the following manufacturers: McNear H. C. Muddox Pacific Clay Belden Mutual Materials makes their own brick in the Pacific North West.    

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The Rocket-Fired Barrel Oven

Here is an exciting innovation combining the advantages of a rocket-fired combustion box with the practicality and efficiency of a wood-fired barrel oven.  This idea was developed by Flemming Abrahamsson of Fornyet Energi in Denmark.  See also his brilliant Rocket-Fired Griddle Oven Design, which further combines a cooktop griddle to the configuration. Download Plans as

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Local Artists We Work With

This is the beginning of a list of resources of people we like to (or would like to… )work with to help you in understanding the scope of possibility in working with us.  Contact us if you would be interested in working with us. Metolius Tile Artisan Tile Absolutely gorgeous artisan-made tile out of Bend,

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Additional Barrel Oven Construction Information

We have decided to focus on production of the barrel oven and backed off – for the moment – on production of doors, grates, and ash drawers sometimes used for the firebox below. As explained in our book, Build Your Own Barrel Oven, these are optional and a barrel oven can be built with a

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Rocket-Fired Griddle Oven

The new Rocket-Fired Griddle Oven was built during the Natural Building Colloquium at the Black Range Lodge in Kingston, NM. The Griddle Oven was designed by Flemming Abrahamson of Fornyet Energi and built in a workshop led by Flemming and Max Edleson of Firespeaking. The Griddle Oven features a rocket-style combustion box which offers clean

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Big Bear Camp Barrel Oven

We were very happy to get hired by our neighbors Hal and Tonia of Big Bear Camp to lead a workshop to build a Barrel Oven. We took the opportunity to make our first glass door for the Barrel Oven Kit and are thrilled by the result. We think it speaks for itself…. CHECK OUT

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Oven at Wise Acres Farm – Eugene, OR

We built this wood-fired earth oven at Wise Acres Farm, a beautiful place and home to Dr. Sharol Tilgner, author of Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth! The beautiful brick oven base was built by Max and the earth oven project was led and finished by Eva during a workshop. The clay, sand

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