How to Build a Cob Oven

Interested in cooking your own pizza, flatbread and more outside in your woodlands?? Well here one of our Agents, David Alty assisted by some very helpful volunteers, will show you how to build a cob oven, for you to do just that. You will see all the different stages of production from creating the cooking floor using wine bottles as insulation to mixing clay and creating your correctly proportioned cob oven.

[buttonvalley]

I wish people would not think of cob ovens as only good for making pizza. Ovens like this were used for centuries before pizza was ever thought up. Loaves of bread are wonderful out of a clay oven, and were the main product baked in them.

[saltybildo]

I think this is the only vid I've seen explaining the theory behind no chimney, I did know 63% though thnx man

[ponyrang]

Wow, Beautiful Upload friend. keep it up. Thank you for sharing this to us. Greetings from Korea

[paulsullivan]

Brilliant.
In all my years in the masonry craft I have never seen mud mixed with the tarp method you used!
Loved the glass bottles as insulators.

[liberty]

why not use the clay/sand for the cooking surface?
looks like a fun project. Love using sand as a form for the dome. I was thinking of far more complicated than I needed to. KISS really is true.
regardless, this opens up to tons of ideas.

[peetsnort]

What is interesting is the pioneer of the African continent of Dutch they'd find a suitable termite mound and just dig out the oven for bread.
Sort of like a disposable oven. The termites might have rebuilt the mound but I'm not sure.

[gaidroroganikora]

Kam raraba ibukin rabakumi aei ao akea te kanganga ba ea roko i Kiribati rabakaumi aei . Thank you

[andrewprahst]

You don't use a chimney because cob isn't a good insulator? That sounds so inefficient.

[JBattler]

Why not put the chimney near the front to let the smoke out above the cook?

[SHGRetro]

You use earth clay not manufactured clay and it should be wet when adding to the sand!

[jacobbrozenick]

Always thought cob was essentially just mud and straw

[maureenfernando]

Should we use a bit of cement with the clay for binding

[banyadas]

Donot even use bricks or rubbles and the results are similar

[thewalkingrob]

Why are these always build up high it seems like a huge unnecessary step but maybe there is a reason

[sonofplato]

My old Grandad could and did build cobs to cook and eat freshly caught fish into the 1970s when he was well into his seventies. We used riverbank materials for, granted, a single use cob but often shared by other fishers and could on occasion be there the next fishing weekend.
Old school skills from a knowledgeable generation. Funny watching these new age hippy, greenistoviromentalists try to reinvent the the wheel.
All our forefathers had access to newspapers, mostly the redtops of course to "make a lining" 😆🙄

[phildobson]

Why not use very thin ply board as a former? Sand in your pizza is not nice for your teeth and could cause permanent damage. Teeth are like pearls, take care of them

[हरिःव्योम]

sorry.. this looks terrible from all aspects

[GeNeRuStPlayer]

Looked better with the brick look and then you smoothed it out .