Fireplace Transformation, Cast Iron Cooking | Wilderness Survival Shelter

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I complete the transformation of the fireplace, adding a DIY concrete mantel and a hand-formed copper heat reflector behind the stovepipe with copper left over from the kitchen sink and backsplash. In the evening, I grill duck breast with wild rice and simmer a maple syrup/blueberry reduction sauce in my cast iron skillet on the BBQ. I split some kindling for the outdoor kitchen and I sit by the campfire until dark before retiring to the log cabin for the night, Cali sleeping on the bench on the main floor and me back in the loft now that the night time temperatures are more comfortable.

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if you dug a big hole and I just dip this in the mud in the camera I can still see the moisture coming out of the cob up on the inside there notice over the last couple of days with all the rain and moisture in the air that this was actually well actually looks wet right now it looked completely dry like this earlier before the rain and then started sweating here once it got moist now it's sweating with the heat of the fire and inside I can see moisture on the inside of the walls as well so this still means time to cure it's been what two weeks I think two or three weeks now but I'm also curious and watching to see how the smoke behaves the fire behaves so it seems to get enough airflow apparently as long as this opening here is roughly sixty sixty-five percent of the height of the interior the highest part of the dome and the airflow will be good and it seems to be the case it's about exactly the ratio that I ended up with so it is drawing well the smoke clears out of the kitchen well and out through the back I think the peaked roof here so remains to be seen off to wait another week by the looks of it to start a fire that's long enough sustained heat enough to heat this whole thing up so the whole mass is hot before I remove the fire and then cook inside so this is different than a pizza oven that I'm even I've been aware which has a chimney typically but with a pizza you don't really need that high temperature or for that long so typically you just leave the fire burning stick the pits in there cook it and pull it out so you're trying to bake bread you need this thing up around 500 degrees first of all and you need to stay that temperature for quite a while and be fairly consistent so the cob releases that heat keeps the oven warm which is different than a pizza oven which because you have a fire burning typically has a chimney to expel the smoke so that's what's different about this is that's why there's no chimney when I research all the traditional methods of building anything around here one of the things that I focused on was this earthen oven to see how it was done traditionally and this is the traditional way it didn't have chimneys for I guess that mostly for like bread baking and actual baking not not making pizzas so I'm happy with it but still a little bit more time another week [Applause]

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he's forged rustic forest hooks were sad by a viewer was back in the winter I think it was because I was going to use them inside I remember and didn't and now I think they'd be perfect in the kitchen here see if I can find a spot to hang the pots [Applause]

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