New friends from Ohio

This past week, Mark and Sara Frommeyer, owners of Blue Oven Bakery visited us from Cincinnati with their little son Jack.

They are planning on having our oven built this spring and they were here for a test drive. It was a pleasure working with them and it was a great opportunity to exchange formulas/recipes and experience. We hope to visit their bakery in the near future...

Here are some pictures of the oven in use. We've retired our old Allen Scott, and have been baking with great success in the new one for one month today! For the time being with are loading it with a peel, but will soon begin building the automatic loader that the oven was designed to accomodate.

This is part of the loading door being built by our friend Brad Roberts, at his blacksmith shop, Iron Art in Stowe, Vermont.

We wanted to put a picture of the oven up in it's current state of progress. Our door system which consists of a plug that friction fits into the flange with three stainless steel flapper doors, and three insulated firing doors should be finished within the week. We've had a few very slow fires in the oven so far and will start really bringing it up to temp with the completion of the door system.

This evening after getting back from the Stowe Farmer's Market we built the first (very small) fire in the oven with temporary firing doors.

Oven Progress

Here are some more pictures of the oven's progress. We've just finished the roof and chimney and are hoping to have the building finished in the next few days. We are waiting on the fabrication of the firing doors, but as soon as they are complete we will build the first fire to start slowly curing the oven.

Its been tricky to photograph the oven face as the existing wall to the bakery is only 3 or so feet back from the oven.

As soon as the wall between the existing bakery and new space is down we will be able to have much better images. The facing was built with old recycled Drury bricks from Fairfax, with beautiful touches such as diffent courses of brick and a marble keystone above the door.

More to come soon.
















Carston Homstead, Antione Guerlain,

William Davenport & Ksenia Chumakova

Bake Oven aka (chuma-k--oven)