Baking with a Portable, Wood Fired Dutch Oven

Your cast-iron guarantee of amazing breads and pizzas, indoors or out.

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This course will turn your ideas about Dutch ovens upside down. Dust off that heavy old pot and turn it into a mobile wood fired oven for baking breads, pizzas and other dishes outdoors.  This course shows you how to make an insulated oven base that takes up very little room, so you can assemble your portable oven and light your cooking fire in the tiniest backyard, on the wildest beach, or at your favourite campsite.

What You'll Learn

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

Who is this course for?

  • Anyone who would love to bake in a wood fired oven, but doesn't have the budget/time/skills/space to build a full-scale one.
  • Anyone who loves cooking outdoors, with a wood fire.
  • Anyone with a sense of adventure!

Requirements

  • You will need basic carpentry skills.
  • Tools required: a power screwdriver, a saw and a tape measure.
  • Basic materials: vermiculite board, wood, refractory bricks.
  • Basic equipment: cast iron pot with lid (Dutch oven), baker's peel.

Section 1: Introduction

Welcome to a new way of baking!
Disclaimer. Please Read.

Section 2: Health & Safety

Safe, Smart and Sober!
Please Read This Too

Section 3: Hearth

List of Tools, Materials, Dimensions & Other Considerations
Making the Hearth Base
Adding Extra Insulation
Hearth Assembly

Section 4: Oven

The Pot! (Your Dutch Oven)
Additional Equipment: BBQ Chimney Starter & Propane Gas Torch

Section 5: Fire

Know Your Fire
Fire Tools, Fuel & Where to Site Your Hearth

Section 6: Making Pizza

Mixing, Rock & rolling & Autolysing
Making Tomato Sauce
Pre-shaping Dough Balls
Shaping Pizza
Topping & Baking Pizza

Section 7: Baking Pizza Outdoors

Baking Pizza Outdoors
Baking Pizza

Section 8: Making Bread

Basic White Bread

Section 9: Baking Bread Outdoors

Baking Breads
Baking Bread

Section 10: Using Your Domestic Oven

Pizza in your kitchen oven
Bread in your kitchen oven

Section 11: The Brick-nic!

The Brick-nic!

Section 12: And Finally…

Happy Baking!

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Sparkwell
Devon PL7 5DQ
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