SRM Bakeovens 2012 web update 2 [CD]

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Pizza baked on a soapstone slab in a masonry heaters black bakeoven. Slab is pre-heated in front of the door and placed in oven when only after fire is in coal stage.  There must be a 3x3” channel left open in the back of the oven for the hot gases to go thru the oven and into the chimney.

Masonry heater being fired thru a black bakeoven.

36”x32” squirrel tail oven core on Gunflint Lake.  Stone finishing by others.

Dick Smith, the Executive Director of the Masonry Heater Association helped build this squirrel tail oven for Gunflint Lodge in MN.

SR-18 Hybrid Masonry Heater Kit with a white bakeoven and old style 1 piece oven floor.

SR-18 white oven. Note: don’t use this style of oven thermometer, they are not accurate in a masonry bakeoven.  Buy a $100 laser thermometer at your local auto parts store.

Pat Manley baking pizza at the MHA’s annual meeting in 2011.

Pizza in a 24” round Forno Bravo Primavera 60 oven

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SR-18 with New 2011 white oven 2-piece floor design with floating kiln shelf and soapstone slab.

SR-18 Hybrid with rear facing white oven. Stone finish by others.

SR-18 hybrid core with new 2011 black oven design with sliding soapstone floor.  You can slide the soapstone slabs together so that you get one large 19” wide x 15” deep baking surface.  There is still a 3”x3” channel in the back of the oven to let hot gases from fire out of the oven.  Heater must be in coal stage before you slide the stones together.

SR-18 w/ black bakeoven.

Trailer mounted Forno Bravo Professional 110 wood fired oven build for Little “G’s’” Pizzeria.  Custom steel stand by Northern Welding in Duluth.

Trailer mounted FB Professional - 110 oven build - Peder Oase helping on base course

Trailer mounted FB Professional 110 oven build - Base course set in a bed of sand

Trailer mounted FB Professional 110 oven build. Core wedges are set dry together. A styrofoam shim...

...is used to temporarily hold each piece in place until the next interlocking piece is set, tying everything together  Trailer mounted FB Professional 110 oven build. A steel band is screwed in at the base to keep pieces from moving during transport. Refractory mortar is mudded into the outside seams only.

Trailer mounted FB Professional 110 oven build. - Showing the custom stainless steel smoke dome and chimney connection.

Trailer mounted FB Professional 110 oven build.  Ceramic insulation was secured around the oven and then 3/16” flat stock steel was welded to the frame to keep oven from bouncing but still leaving room for expansion.

Trailer mounted FB Professional 110 oven build. - Metal lathe was secured into insulation for a coat of stucco by the owner.

Shimek 36”x 32” Alan Scott style oven. Ready for the carpenters to build a roof.

Shimek oven with mortar cap over the insulation.

Utke’s bakeoven and Rumford fireplace combo up on Lake Vermilion.

Utke’s 36”x32” modified Allan Scott style brick oven faced in Corinthian granite trim stones.

Slate from the taconite mines in MN and local fieldstone. - Woodhall 36”x32” Modified Allan Scott style brick bakeoven. Finished with Soapstone countertops and local fieldstone. Roof is timberframed and covered with slate roofing tiles.

Hand-carved fish accent into timbers by SRM.

Another nice fire.

Tulikivi LU2820 bakeoven.

Custom Tulikivi bakeoven and cookstove combo with boulder faced soapstone.

Custom Tulikivi bakeoven with boulder faced soapstone.

Derek Lucchese of Both Hands Bread and Masonry co-teaching a oval Quebec style bakeoven workshop.  Derek is cleaning the lime mortar off the joints inside the oven.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Base course layout with herringbone pattern floor.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Oval marks were cut out on a saw & outside course of bricks were laid around hearth.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. View from behind showing lime mortar.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Chimney arch was built for the brick chimney.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Top chimney view.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Sawdust was installed in the oven and then moistened with water so that it could be molded into the oval oven shape. Top ht. of dome is ~ 16”.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Top view of firebrick courses being laid with lime mortar in the oval shape. Mortar joints on the inside of the oven are kept to a minimal.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Derek laying brick on the sawdust arch form.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Oval is getting smaller each time.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Oval is filled in with the last brick.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Mortar is leveled off to the chimney to support the brick on the chimney.  Temperature sensor probes where drilled into 3 different locations and wired were run to the outside of the stucco coating.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Insulation was laid over the brick and then metal lathe and 3 coats of stucco were applied to the outside at a later date.

Quebec style oval bake oven workshop. Inside of oven after a few curing fires.

Sunrise over the Grand Marais MN harbor highlighting the Allan Scott style bake oven built by students at the North House Folk School.

The new bake oven at the North House Folk School in Grand Marais MN that was built by students and taught by Derek Lucchese of South Ghilles ON. Stone was finished by others.

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