Build Your Own Barrel Oven: A Guide for Making a Versatile, Efficient, and Easy to Use Wood-Fired Oven Paperback – September 15, 2012

I recently watched an episode of Man, Food, Fire on the Cooking Channel titled "Outrageous Ovens". The first half featured a barrel oven in Oregon. I was fascinated by the oven which appeared to be highly fuel-efficient and seemingly inexpensive to build. I immediately began searching for information on barrel ovens and found this book.It is a great little book; clearly written, nicely organized, and well illustrated with a wealth of information and resources. I like the fact that it takes in to account the varying selection of materials and approaches, depending on budget, climate and locale. The book presents the techniques in a manner that is not at all intimidating to someone like me who has little knowledge of masonry techniques. The book makes the prospect of building a barrel oven both technically and financially doable.The other very appealing aspect of this book is the modesty of the authors. This book doesn't purport to be the definitive tome on barrel ovens. It presents barrel oven construction as a fairly recent and evolving subject and actively solicits participation and feedback by any and all.I highly recommend this to anyone who has ever considered building any kind of wood-fired oven. Even if you are considering something grander such as a domed or vaulted wood-fired oven, this would be a great starter and/or companion project.I will try to update my review when I finish building my own barrel oven!

This book is a wonderful starting point. You'll need to know something about materials and techniques or be willing to do some more reading for specifics, but it's hard to not get pretty excited by this fine book!

I guess I was hoping for few more instuctions, details and diagrams. Some of the stories that were given are nice stories and the artistic stuff is nice too, but I bought the book hoping to get a better idea of how exactly to build one of these ovens myself, and it didnt really do that for me.

Good barrel stove design book, but as the photos tell most of the story, authors likely had difficulty filling up the 'booklet' enough to make it into a book. Still, for serious builders probably worth the somewhat high price.

Disappointing. It was a very thin book that had many photos of people posing with the ovens but very little good informational descriptions or photos. The gist was that you could order the setup if it was too difficult to make one. This option is also contingent on whether or not they could get their production process established. Save your money for a possible better revision or, better, research other resources online. Concept is good but failed after that.

For those interested in building their own back yard barrel style oven, this is a great resource…In fact, it's the only resource I've seen in the natural building community.I've built several of these ovens over the years and this book synthesizes the process and materials into one easy to read and understand book.

Excellent book of instruction

Straight to the point with easy instructions nice pictures the book was well written and was an easy read. Fantastic