[Cob] My cob oven

[Amanda Peck]

Great!!

A roof would be BETTER than a tarp, IMHO.  A couple of people have had to 
put in spacers so that condensation on the under side of the tarp can drain 
off--or else they've regretted NOT doing that!  If it bothered you you could 
hang something--cute shower curtains?--from the sides of the roof.

Do make sure, though that you won't set your roof on fire.  Lots of space, 
metal roof, and/or even a (storebought?) chimney cap to spread the 
flame/heat/sparks coming out of the chimney.

The Indians I knew in Mexico always burned the first batch of rolls in their 
horno, it was a small test batch just for that reason.  But that oven was 
massive enough that they put the last piece--a six foot long tamale--in to 
cook about eight hours later, it was done but still quite warm when they 
took it out the next morning.


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Georgie wrote:

I finally got our oven pics up on the web: 
http://www.busygirl.ca/oven/index.htm . We finished the oven a couple of 
weeks ago, just in the nick of time before the weather really got cold. We 
hope to get a roof over it before it snows. My question is this: even with a 
roof, will the oven need to be tarped over the winter, or can it sit 
uncovered, with the door on to keep snow out of the interior? I hate the 
thought of looking out my back window at a big blue blob, so am hoping that 
a roof will suffice.