River Cottage Treatment

HappyIdiotTalk

Currently on BBC2. They have just made a pizza oven from clay and made there own pizza's in it! Now that is proper OS!

Its got me thinking, how cool would it be to have a HM pizza oven in the garden! Has anyone tried this or know anyone else that has? I missed the actual building part as I was looking after the baby while mother had a quick 40 winks, so dont know how hard the building part was, or how they did it.

crispeater

from the bit i caught it was sand, water and paper lol it must be wrong coz i think thats a bit like a paper mache :rolleyes:

Coolhandluke

Looked dead easy,they first made a base from some fire bricks then put a mound of damp sand on it and shaped it to give the form of a pizza oven.
Then covered this with a layer of wet newspaper and then laid clay all over it and smoothed it off and marked the outline of where the door would be cut and left it for a day for the clay to set.

Once it was set just cut the door through and clear out all the sand from inside and thats it ready to start the wood fire inside.

Bambam

They made a dome shape out of damp sand, then covered the dome in a layer of wet paper. With the clay they dug up from the river bed they added sand and mixed the two together, with their feet. They then moulded the clay mixture around the sand dome, marked out where the 'door' would be and left to dry for 24 hours.

That's as much as we saw, but I assume when dry they lifted the clay mould away from the sand dome and cut away the door.

Hope I've explained that OK ?

Are you really going to have a go? I'm impressed!

pawpurrs

Damm missed it!

New house apparantly has an old bread oven hidden behind a wall, as it used to be a bakers, thinking of knowcking the wall down and having a bread oven/pizza oven in the kitchen, how cool is that.

HappyIdiotTalk

Bambam wrote:

They made a dome shape out of damp sand, then covered the dome in a layer of wet paper. With the clay they dug up from the river bed they added sand and mixed the two together, with their feet. They then moulded the clay mixture around the sand dome, marked out where the 'door' would be and left to dry for 24 hours.

That's as much as we saw, but I assume when dry they lifted the clay mould away from the sand dome and cut away the door.

Hope I've explained that OK ?

Are you really going to have a go? I'm impressed!

I'm defintely interested. Its a bit cold for anything like that at the moment, but it could be fun next summer! I already make loads of HM pizza's, so having a proper pizza oven would be a pretty cool thing to have. Just think of the kudos too!

HappyIdiotTalk

pawpurrs wrote:

Damm missed it!

New house apparantly has an old bread oven hidden behind a wall, as it used to be a bakers, thinking of knowcking the wall down and having a bread oven/pizza oven in the kitchen, how cool is that.

Sorry, just checked with the BBC its not on their downloads list: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/a-z/#R If you have Telewest, maybe you could check Teleport tomorrow and see if its on there.

Thats is pretty cool. I'm sure I heard somewhere that most houses used to have a bread oven... Or maybe I just dreamt it. If I were you I'd defintely have a look, what a feature!

JollyNolly

It was channel 4, I think.

JollyNolly

Try http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/R/rivercottage/oven_build.html

HappyIdiotTalk

JollyNolly wrote:

Try http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/R/rivercottage/oven_build.html

Brilliant, thanks!

Sorry Pawpurrs, wife told me it was BBC2!

tr3mor

Was the last in the series unfortunately.

They built a mound of damp sand. Covered this in wet newspaper. Then covered this in lumps of clay, filling in the gaps with wet clay and smoothing it down.

When dry they cut out the doorway and scooped out the sand.