Los Angeles Horno (Earthen Oven) Workshop
June 6,7,13,14
Earthen ovens are cheap to build, fun to use, and provide a baking environment that is impossible to recreate in the kitchen.
Join adobeisnotsoftware in this 4-day hands-on workshop this June, and learn how to make your own earthen oven! You will leave the class with the knowledge necessary to build an oven of your own, with materials that you may already have in your yard.
It’s part of the Westchester Community Oven project. The 4-day class is suitable for bakers, building professionals and do-it-your-selfers, and is a great introduction to the adobe construction and earthen plasters (which are covered in more depth in AdobeIsNotSoftware’s other classes).
What Will I Learn?
- Local considerations and the siting for your earthen oven
- Soil and material selection, sourcing and testing
- Foundations and oven base design and materials
- Sizing
- Sand Form and Oven Domes
- Natural oven plasters and finishes
- Firing and baking in your oven
More Information about the Westchester Community Oven Project
Instructor:
Ben Loescher is a licensed architect, principal of Loescher Meachem Architects, and founder of AdobeIsNotSoftware, an organization which was founded in 2009 to inform, enable and advance adobe construction in California, and educate the public in the building and conservation of adobe structures.
The workshop:
The 4-day Cob Oven workshop will be June 6,7,13,14. On the two Saturdays, hours will be 9am-4pm. On the two Sundays, hours will be 1pm-4pm.
Questions?
Please do not hesitate to contact Ben by email at mud[at]adobeisnotsoftware.org or by phone at (760) 278-1134.
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