How to Build a DIY Bread Oven

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Today we finish our three-part series with How to Build a DIY Bread Oven. The first week we gave you a Homemade Fire-Resistant Cement Recipe that was used to build a firebox. The second week we had How to Build a DIY Smokehouse.

The DIY Bread Oven is an addition to the firebox of week one. The DIY Bread Oven will be built on top of the firebox. The firebox will give the DIY Bread Oven the heat to cook the bread or pizza, or whatever you use it to cook.

How to Build a DIY Bread Oven

Again, it is a step-by-step process.

1. Build the firebox.

See part one, a Homemade Fire-Resistant Cement Recipe that was used to build a firebox.

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2. Start with a piece of thin plywood to form the top of the Bread Oven. The plywood was wet and then bent to form the top of the bread oven, kind of like a rainbow.

This picture shows a thin piece of plywood, rounded over the firebox to make the bread oven.

3. Place bricks on the plywood to cover it.

Popi used bricks lashed into place to hold the plywood while he cemented the bricks in place. Once the outside bricks were cemented in place, dry, and set the plywood form was removed.

This picture shows bricks being added on top of the plywood.

This picture shows the bricks formed into a round top bread oven.

4. Using the same Fire-Resistant Cement Recipe, cover the bricks. This will look similar to stucco when finished.

It is important that all the bricks are not only held in place but are covered with the Fire-Resistance Cement so they can withstand the heat.

This picture shows Fire-Resistant Cement being spread onto all the bricks.

This picture shows the stucco style cement finish on the bricks.

5. A metal plate is used as both the top of the firebox and the bottom of the bread oven. This makes the top like the stove oven in your kitchen. The heat comes from the bottom, in the firebox, and the heat rises to cook the food in the oven above it.

This picture shows a metal plate in the bread oven, on the top of the firebox.

6. The metal plate is sealed in with the Fire-Resistant Cement.

This picture shows a metal plate that makes the bottom of the bread oven, and the top of the firebox sealed with Fire-Resistant Cement.

7. All bricks are sealed into place with the Fire-Resistant Cement on the outside and the inside.

The inside of the DIY Bread Oven must be able to take the heat without cracking.

This picture shows the inside of the DIY Bread Oven covered and sealed with the Fire-Resistant Cement.

8. Popi made a thick wooden door for the DIY Bread Oven.

As there will not be any actual fire in the over, the wooded door should not burn. Likely the door will darken over time but it will not burn.

This picture shows a round top, wooden door

This picture shows the door on the DIY Bread Oven.

9. Large metal, spring clamps are made to swing up and down into place to hold the door closed.

This picture shows the door taken off of the bread oven so the inside is visible. The spring hinges are swung down out of the way so the door could be removed. The finished wooded door is on the ground in front of the bread oven.

This picture shows large black, spring hinges latched on the DIY Bread Oven to hold the wooden door in place.

10. The wooden rack between the DIY Smokehouse and the DIY Bread Oven is used to hold tools and fire wood.

This picture shows the wooden rack between the DYI Bread Oven and the DIY Smokehouse. The rack is holding fire wood.

And there you have the steps for How to Build a DIY Bread Oven.

There would be no fire in the DIY Bread Oven. The fire is started in the firebox below the oven. Once the fire is good and hot, the bread above it will be cooked by that heat. Popi started a small fire in the firebox to try it out and be sure it could stand the heat.

This picture shows a small fire was started inside the firebox. The top, bottom and all sides are covered in cement.

Popi could have bought parts and pieces to make this DIY Bread Oven but he made most of the needed parts himself.

As with the Homemade Fire-Resistant Cement Recipe and How to Build a DIY Smoke House there are other ways this can be made, other materials can be used, and other shapes it can be made into but this is how Popi made his DIY Bread Oven.

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We hope you have enjoyed this three-part series. In case you are considering making your own fire box, Smoke House, or Bread Oven, now you know how to do it. This is one more step toward self-sufficiency. We can now smoke foods, and make bread outside with no electricity.