Cob: New earth oven page

[Amanda Peck]

Nice project--nice pictures, informative text, hope you're getting good 
stuff out of it.

They had huge horno's--earth ovens--where I spent the summer in 
Mexico--early 70's.  The family I lived with, along with a handful of 
families in the village, baked once a week.  But they were the only ones who 
used the cooling oven to make sacahuil (no idea how that's really spelled) 
which is a giant (maybe 4 ft long) tamale wrapped in banana leaves, with 
fresh masa, red mole sauce, and pork to sell at the market the next day.

I never saw one of the ovens made, no clear idea of how and of what it was 
made, but they were huge, five or six feet in diameter, with, I'm thinking, 
a chimney.


For those who want to get a feeling for what building
with cob is like, a small project like a playhouse or
a shed seems like a good idea.  I started even
smaller, with an earth oven.

Please check out my earth oven page at
http://www.geocities.com/mosesrocket



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