Sunday, July 20, 2008

First Bake


The oven burns real nice. I seem to have gotten door size and arch just right. We're still drying out all the layers of material, so it's not holding heat yet. But it sure produces incredible wood fired pizza!

2 comments:

pss999 said...

So why does it have to be dry to hold heat?? No comprendo.

Phil Merrick said...

Water is a tremendous heat sink. The heat required to convert liquid water to gas absorbs heat from the surrounding hot areas of the oven. So during a firing the inside of the oven will get very hot, but will quickly lose that heat to the moisture surrounding it. Once the moisture is all driven out, the oven will begin to act very differently. The change is dramatic, almost magical.