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For the cover page of this folder go to the Alan Carlisle community garden oven
Contacts: alancarlisle1@gmail.com, aebwa.johnston@sympatico.ca
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2015:
From oven builder Alan Carlisle: "Fired it up a few times works like a charm..."
October 8 2015, we visit the oven
Alan shows Yo that this is an old industrial site
Yo Utano, who carried out the CELOS guest baker project in 2010 and 2011, moved back to her home in Japan three years ago. In order to do a follow-up on public ovens in Toronto, CELOS was able to bring Yo back for three weeks in October.
Alan Carlisle, who built the temporary oven in this community garden, is a very busy contractor. But he moved his schedule around so he could take the time for us to come and make some pizza with him.
The bricks for the oven came from an industrial site that had a lot of foundry bricks left over. Everything has been re-purposed in a most ingenious way. The pizzas baked up in minutes and were every bit as good as those we bake in Dufferin Grove Park's permanent oven.
they use a broom to clean out ashes
wood storage in old industrial steel bin
A rocket stove was there too, built in the same way by stacking old bricks. Alan says the stove works just as it should.
a temporary rocket stove
fire in the rocket stove
Alan says that the oven has been used maybe 5 times. Baking with fire takes so much longer than turning on an oven. The food may taste better, or -- if experience is still being built up -- it may be burnt. Lacking a kitchen, every baking is like taking a picnic, with all the possibilities of heavy hauling or forgetting something. But oh -- the enjoyment of simplicity, unmediated by a gas or electrical infrastucture! And when ingenuity, balance, and natural materials are so evident all around, as at this oven, the oven is a totally satisfying work of art. And food.
a fine social space
2016
October 22, 2016
The oven has been dismantled and rebuilt a slightly different way.
from the front
from the side -- a lot of mass!
they put some bricks in front of the fire
the oven vaults upwards beyond the entry
peppers from the garden
the view is a study in contrasts
Alan's temporary oven, to copy
front
foundation
gap under oven floor
oven floor: two layers of plywood plus cement board
left side of oven above hearth
right side of oven
rise of back wall
three step-ups from front to back
chimney partly closed
chimney open
Alan's temporary rocket stove
a temporary rocket stove
double burner with two-level wood chamber
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