It's a wrap

The classroom part of construction is complete. We will come back in about a month to take the oven home.

Only in grand marais

Can you see this on your way to the liquor store

Day 4

We arrived early to put some potatoes in the oven. They are done . Now it's back to work on the oven

End of day 3

These are fire bricks. Sam carefully cleaned it up for the photo

Brick by brick

Messy job

I thought that this was going to be the easy part of the class-but that was far from the truth. The bread baking has been exhausting. I had a sticky mess. The kitchen is hot and we have 9 big dirty bowls . We will end up with 10 loaves...if they aren't any good we will feed it to the chickens

Poolish

Starter for this peasant bread

Meanwhile

Back at the oven project, we are about to lay some bricks. Our bread doughs are fermenting and will bake later this afternoon . Here we are taking the forms off the concrete.

Peasant bread

We shall rise

Hopefully!

Good morning

Poolish and starter

Laying

Fire bricks for hearth. Sam cutting brick

A first

Sam baking bread--to be continued

Ready

To lay some fire bricks

Lighting the school stove

To bake our bread tomorrow

Foundation

Foam glass insulation then pouring concrete

Learning

How oven works

At the end of day one

The view from here