Please pardon the low-fi cell phone pictures. (I’ll post more when I get them.)

This cob oven has lived under a tarp for more than two years, only being exposed for special pizza cooking events (usually held monthly on art night – 1st Thursdays).  The oven makes its home in Kentuck Art Park in Northport, AL, just north across the Black Warrior River from Tuscaloosa, AL.  Jeremy Crosby, Joseph Wright, myself, and a few other volunteers set out building this addition to the art park scene as a volunteer project in 2007.  After a series of unfortunate interruptions (to put it lightly)… a roof was finally erected over the oven just last week, just in time for another doosie of a gullywasher.

Cob ovens are an excellent way to enjoy cooking in the outdoors.  It takes a few hours with a fire in the belly of the oven for an optimal pizza cooking temperature to be reached.  After raking out the coals, a cooking temp can be maintained for an ample cooking session, and hot coals can always be repositioned to bring the heat back up to par.  The results are incredible and the experience of cooking something so delicious in something you built with your own two hands has no comparison.  For more on this consult Kiko Denzer’s book:

Build Your Own Earth Oven

 

 

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