Bench Plan

This is our bench plan for us to follow and build.

Mr. Kerr has given us a stainless steel sink bench and we will use the Hinuera stones we got from the farm.

Burning Ring of Fire

Burning Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lhf9U5Wf3Q

Lighting A Fire for Our Wood Fired Oven

Remember to keep your wood dry and in small pieces so that they catch fire easily and fit in side the oven.

The stainless steel door keeps the heat inside the fire and stops the fire burning too fast. We need a chain on it to stop it falling down.

Our oven needed a "flue" so that the oxygen can be sucked up through the fire via the entrance and out of the flue to keep it burning.

Your fire needs to fill the whole oven and burn for at least an hour to generate enough heat to cook your pizzas.

Our Instructions

First: Roll sheets of newspaper up really tight after folding them into quarters.

Second: Arrange the rolled paper in a triangular layer on top of each other.

Third: Sprinkle dry bark, wood chips, dried fern leaves (brown), or cabbage tree leaves over paper sticks.

Fourth: Add two slightly larger pieces of dry wood and then more paper sticks.

Fifth: Build up your stack in layers allowing plenty of room for air to flow through.

Six: Light the fire down low in three different spots with a BBQ lighter.

Seven: Stand back a safe distance and add more wood as the fire grows.

CAUTION: Do not use petrol or any other flammable liquids to start your fire.

Make sure there is always an adult supervising you.

Mind Mapping Our Next Steps

We met with Mr Ngatai and Mr Kerr to mind map our next steps now that the main job of building the pizza oven is completed.

We centred our thinking around the word "Organic" because that is what we wanted to create, something that looked like it had risen out of the earth.

Our Thoughts

A mountain rising out of the earth with a cave and water fall over it's entrance. Lots of native plants including ferns cloaking the base of the mountain that is filled with wood (our fuel) to feed the internal volcano (oven) that lives inside the cave.

The Paua shell will represent the water droplets from the waterfall which will cascade down from the mountain top.

Our Pizza Oven will include the natural elements of earth, wind, water and fire.

More Plastering

In this photograph Kayne and Uriah are making little dents to make the oven look more "organic".

In preparation for this photo we needed to have completed an excellent job in plastering our pizza oven.

When plastering our pizza oven we needed to make sure the plaster was even all over before we could move on.

Jaycob 24th September 2009

Levers

In this photograph, Clinton is slowly but carefully placing the pizza oven on the base that we had prepared one week before the arrival of the oven.

In preparation for this photograph we needed a hiab to lift the newly prepared pizza oven on to our fantastic base we made.

Jaycob 24th September 2009

Getting Plastered

In this photograph I am plastering the pizza oven. The plaster I am using for this is Clinton's secret plaster recipe. I am unable to tell you the ingredients.

Before this photograph was taken there was a lot of preparation that had to be done. We made runny mortar to brush onto the pizza oven. This is so the plaster had something to stick to.

We had to make sure that the mortar wasn't drying to fast by the time we had made the plaster, otherwise it would not have stuck. (A bit like glue)

Jaycob 24th September 2009