Oven

An oven is a heated cavity primarily used in cooking, usually at lower temperatures than kilns or furnaces. Ovens can be made from mud, clay, bricks, metal, and other materials.

Crafting Instructions

Simple Earthen Oven

1. Create a base for the oven with large flat stones, it needn't be one piece but larger surfaces and more thermal mass are preferable.
2. Using mud or clay, make a complete circle on top of the base. No more than 6 inches (15 cm) tall and at least 6 inches thick.
3. Add more layers on top of previously, letting partially dry if not structurally sound. Each layer should be just as thick, but with a smaller diameter. The cross section should resemble a parabola.
4. When the full dome is complete, carve out a hole at the base, to access interior.
5. Optionally, an entry section may be extended out.

Brick Oven

1. Build a brick oven

To use

1. Light a fire inside the oven, if the oven is new, keep it smaller for longer to dry out the oven. Too rapid of heating may cause cracking.
2. When the fire has died down to mostly coals, either remove them or push them to one side or the back.
3. Food may now be cooked inside, heat will continue to be supplied by embers, if applicable, as well as the thermal mass of the walls and base.
4. Add small pieces of fuel at a time to control the temperature.

The door may or may not be blocked off

Uses

Ovens are primarily used to cook food.