The PACT Food action group was invited by Nick Jones to
The Watermill, Little Salkeld for our July 2010 meeting. During a lively discussion we decided
that we should celebrate Lammas-Tide (loaf-mass) at the watermill by
building an outdoor wood-fired bread oven or ‘cob’, which we did under
Niall Wildewood’s direction.
Community Ovens topic items
The following pages, events, forum topics and blog entries have been tagged as Community Ovens:
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After a successful Birthday Party Outing, the portable oven is deemed fit4purpose, except....................that mk2 is now on the drawing board!
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Date: Tuesday, 11 October, 2011 - 00:00 to Saturday, 20 April, 2024 - 13:23Organisation: PACTVenue: The Watermill, Little SalkeldDo come along for some free cob oven training from Peter Dicken.Sarah Clarke will be one of the trainees - she's going to be creating pizzas for the Guild of Cornmillers shortly.Peter will be producing some bread using the cob oven and dough risen using beer barm yeast. A BBC producer will also be there as she wishes to include the oven in some future TV prog presented by Nigel Slater. The filming will be later in the month.
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Members of the Oven Group have been busy throughout the year with cob ovens built at Newton Rigg in the Forest Garden, by the watermill at Acorn Bank, behind the smokehouse at Castle Court, Shap, and a working “show” oven at The Watermill, Little Salkeld, where it attracted plenty of public attention during August 2011.
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Date: Saturday, 30 July, 2011 - 00:00 to Saturday, 20 April, 2024 - 13:23Organisation: PACT OvenistasVenue: The Watermill, Little SalkeldAs part of the Local Loaves for Lammas celebrations run by the Real Bread Campaign, The Watermill in Little Salkeld is having an open weekend to inaugurate it's new permanent cob oven, helped along by story-telling.Not that anyone needs an excuse, but Lammas is a perfect opportunity to eat and celebrate locally produced Real Bread.
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The portable oven's been on the rampage again, this time back at Crosby Ravensworth for their seasonal food market. I have felt over the past season that the oven could perform better than it has been doing and to try and improve its performance I thought I would try and increase its insulation efficiency - sand takes far too long to dry out before being useful and is very heavy to carry from venue to venue. I resolved to try something else - Perlite.
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The portable oven's been on the rampage again, this time back at Crosby Ravensworth for their seasonal food market. I have felt over the past season that the oven could perform better than it has been doing and to try and improve its performance I thought I would try and increase its insulation efficiency - sand takes far too long to dry out before being useful and is very heavy to carry from venue to venue. I resolved to try something else - Perlite.
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Date: Wednesday, 27 July, 2011 - 00:00 to Saturday, 20 April, 2024 - 13:23Organisation: PACTVenue: Crosby RavensworthThe portable oven arose from its own ashes (of a burnt out frontispiece) to make pizzas at the Crosby Ravensworth Food Fair.
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Date: Tuesday, 30 August, 2011 - 10:00 to Saturday, 20 April, 2024 - 13:23Organisation: PACTVenue: The Watermill, Little SalkeldOn Tuesday mornings throughout August fellow “ovenista” Peter Dicken will be firing up the Watermill’s outdoor cob oven to show how you can get the best baking from it...no charge, just turn up from 10.00am (firing up) to around 12.30pm (eating bread and pizzas).
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Date: Tuesday, 23 August, 2011 - 10:00 to Saturday, 20 April, 2024 - 13:23Organisation: PACTVenue: The Watermill, Little SalkeldOn Tuesday mornings throughout August fellow “ovenista” Peter Dicken will be firing up the Watermill’s outdoor cob oven to show how you can get the best baking from it...no charge, just turn up from 10.00am (firing up) to around 12.30pm (eating bread and pizzas).