Build a Portable Wood Fired Oven at Home

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Build a Portable Wood Fired Oven at Home

Learn how to make and use your own Dutch oven from start to finish!

The Artisan Bakery School

5.0 (2)

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1.5 hours £30

Online Classes

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Food and Drink

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Baking and Desserts

What you'll do

If you're looking for new things to make at home, why not level up your carpentry skills and learn how to make a portable wood-fired oven from scratch?

This fun online class will turn your ideas about Dutch ovens upside down as you dust off that heavy old pot and turn it into a mobile wood-fired oven for baking bread, pizzas and other dishes outdoors!

From constructing an insulated board base and assembling a portable hearth to using your Dutch oven to bake brilliant handmade bread and pizzas, you'll get hands-on at every stage of the process and enjoy the delicious results.

Your finished base will take up very little room, so you can assemble your portable oven and light your cooking fire in the tiniest garden, on the wildest beach, or at your favourite campsite.

You'll learn how to:

Construct an insulated board base for the hearth.
Assemble a portable hearth using the board base and refractory bricks.
Choose the right cast iron Dutch oven to complete the portable wood-fired oven.
Build, light and control the appropriate fire for baking pizza or bread.
Take your portable wood-fired oven to the shore, the hills, the river or your own backyard.
Bake without leaving a trace on the environment.
Make professional bread and pizza dough and bake them both to perfection.
Use your Dutch oven to bake brilliant bread and pizzas in your domestic electric oven too!

Please note:
Recipes and print-outs on tips/techniques are included, but students are also welcome to photograph their work at various stages and send them to The Artisan Bakery School for review.

Knowledge required

Basic carpentry skills.

What to bring

Tools: power screwdriver, saw, tape measure.
Basic materials: vermiculite board, wood, refractory bricks.
Basic equipment: cast iron pot with lid (Dutch oven), baker's peel.

Your teacher

The Artisan Bakery School

5.0 (2)

In 2008, bakers Dragan and Penny were among the pioneers in teaching microbakery business courses and among the first to sell real bread in Oxford. Now based in Devon, UK, their mission is to teach people how to bake real bread, pastries and pizza. Sourdough, heritage and gluten-free breads are their specialities.

Dragan's fascination with breadmaking was born of necessity in the mid seventies, when he first arrived in the UK. The bread in England then was, and still largely is, fast to produce and chemically induced. Coming from a macho culture, barely able to fry an egg, he was forced to learn how to bake a decent loaf, just to survive. Dragan's greatest pleasure is when people come to them saying that they can finally eat bread again because properly fermented dough is easy to digest.

Penny was fortunate enough to have a mother and two grandmothers who were all great cooks, and happy to have their kids in the kitchen. The teaching came almost by osmosis. Penny’s lifelong passion for creating good food made it natural for her to bake bread, but it wasn’t until she met Dragan that she really developed those skills.

“We can only change the way people bake and think about bread one person at a time. But if we do it often enough, for long enough, we will contribute to positive change. That’s our reason for being."

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