Build Your Own Earth Oven: A Low-Cost, Wood-Fired Mud Oven, Simple Sourdough Bread, Perfect Loaves. By Kiko Denzer, 2nd Ed.Why a wood-fired, earthen oven? Modern cookbooks make bread-baking seem complicated and difficult-- which it is not. Building and baking in a wood-fired earthen oven restores the simplicity of bread by returning you to essentials: earth, water, air, and fire. Plants transform the energy of the sun into woody material, fire transforms wood into energy, and the massive walls of an earthen oven absorb and concentrate that energy as heat. After a couple of hours, the oven is hot enough that you can remove the fire and bake bread. The hot, dense mud radiates its stored heat at a steady rate (like the sun!) Building and baking with a wood-fired earthen oven not only makes wonderful bread, it can also teach you things you'll never learn with a modern oven, bread machine, or book. Instead of turning switches, you will come to know the life they give to grain and yeast and bread, as well as the life they give to us. Books can explain why, but the best way to really understand is to do it yourself. We offer free shipping on all orders over $19.94. Orders under $19.95 will have a $2.50 handling fee added. To order by phone call Toll Free 866-596-9982