A beautiful baking oven emerged out of mundane materials this past weekend. An enthusiastic group of workshop participants, guided by our teacher, Mark Krawcek, got their hands in the muck (literally) and learned first hand how to use simple materials to create the oven that is gorgeous to look at and functional too.
This type of construction is known as Cobb and can be used to build any kind of structure, including beautiful houses.
Materials included: native rock, stone, wine bottles (!), perlite, horse manure, straw and sand. Fire bricks and cement block were purchased too. I won't say it's easy to build one of these stoves. However, anyone can do it with very little prior training. It's a bit messy, at times, but if you don't mind getting mucky, it would be a lot of fun to do.
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