THE PERFECT GIFT!

  Our first holiday promotion is exciting for us and I know we will have some surprised and happy Roundboy oven owners on Christmas morning! To make your shopping easy apply promo code 'holidaypromo' to your order of an oven kit, door and cap to receive the door and cap free! Remember shipping is always free when you buy a Roundboy oven and Karl 570-885-3269 and Harry 570-885-3268 are happy to answer your questions.

Karl has always been determined to buy "American made".  The kids and I have had many Christmas gift ideas for him crushed because we could not find the little "made in U.S.A." sticker.  I am writing this blog wishing I could surprise him Christmas morning with a Roundboy oven! What a great gift. The oven is made in Ashley, Pa. and we are a small business that cares about our product and our customer satisfaction.  A Roundboy oven is a gift that family and friends can enjoy. The oven is easy to put together and can be the focal point to your outdoor kitchen. Our promotion for the holiday is a nice deal and free shipping is a must when I buy on line.

I hope I gave you the ideal gift for your special person.  I can't buy Karl a Roundboy oven so if you have any suggestions for a "made in U.S.A." kinda guy I would love to hear from you. 

Happy Holiday Shopping....
 

I just saw a PBS show on the tube and now that I think about it I think it may of been a Gourmet Magazine show on PBS, about Tuscan cooking. A fellow was making a point of explaining why he used small brush twigs and small diameter wood for firing his oven. He filled the oven with this small wood. He explained that if you start the fire with what we would call kindling and then add larger wood, you end up with a very hot floor and not so hot roof in the oven. This makes perfect sense and reminds me of another show where a baker in England was saying how he fills the oven with what they call "Faggotts" which are again, small diameter brush like wood. It flashes quickly and burns down to ash in a short time leaving the roof hot and the floor appropriately evenly heated.

I thought I would mention this since quite a few Fresh Loafians are escaping to the outdoor oven recently. Using small hardwood brush would make it easier to find burnable materials I would think also.

Eric

This morning, I bicyled down to the Corvallis Winter Market (which is a lot of fun -- it's amazing what local farmers harvest here during thw winter -- greens of all sorts, leeks, potatoes, onions, squashes, spinach, sunchokes, beets, turnips, fresh eggs, stew hens ... it's fun), and I saw a booth with Kiko Denzer's books, among other things, for sale. Kiko's book, Build Your Own Earth Oven is a guide to building a cheap and easy wood fired oven out of cob. In fact, he's built his entire home from cob.

I asked the woman behind the table whether Kiko was teaching any classes, and she said, "Well, you can ask him. That's him behind you!" And so it was!

He's a very nice man, quiet, with the look of a college professor. He had an oven on display that was about the size of a small shipping box. He said it's big enough to bake in, though it's difficult to get the fire really roiling inside, due to the small size. But he got me thinking, "No need to build a big oven. I could just build a small earth oven, big enough for a pizza and a couple of loaves.

So, maybe I will. Anyway, it was fun meeting someone I'd admired from afar for quite some time.