the other day I cooked on my Coleman oven using the silver fire rocket stove
silver fire survivor and while it was adequate I was able to make cupcakes and
I'm pretty sure you could make some cornbread brownies cake bread but I
wasn't able to get it hot enough to do you know roast a chicken or roast
meatloaf or a roast so what I'm gonna do is make an oven sort of like something
like Jane l0 has I'm gonna put mine right probably right here and I went by
Acme Brick in Bossier City and I told the guy what I wanted to do and I asked
him if he had any bricks that were chipped or you know a bus did or and he
said they have what they call filler bricks and they sell them for 25 cents
apiece and I said well I can't afford that I'll take 40 and he wrote the bill
out and I handed him the money and he said you know what he avoided the bill
and handed me the money back and he said I'm just gonna give you 40 I can't I
can't sell 40 bricks for you know 40 bricks just was enough they saw pallets
and pallets and pallets of bricks so anyway I got 40 free bricks and that's
what I'm going to use to build I hope I got enough I do have a few more bricks
around the corner there on my concrete where I keep my wood I hope it's enough
and I have some concrete pads over here right by my
humph I want to use them concrete pad stacked on top of each other full of
ants and mud so I'm gonna get him out here and wash them off and then stack
them up here for high and then start start with my brick so I don't have to
kneel down on the ground to feed the fire all right let me get going here let
me get started all right there's my my four blocks it
sure don't look like it's going to be enough bricks but we'll see I'll get
started on it and then have an idea how much I'm gonna need more all right
let me get get going here stacking the blocks up yeah I am not gonna have
enough enough bricks so uh let me finish what I got here and then cut me a piece
of metal to go across the top of that set my oven on it and then I'll measure
it and see how many more bricks I'm gonna need but I'm gonna show you how I
cut bricks to size this is a you know a bunch of different ways to do it I'm
gonna show you the way I do it alright here we go
all right I found 24 more bricks around the back of my shop there and that's
going to be plenty so I have put a brick on either side of the oven and measured
it just to see how wide I need to cut the metal that's gonna go across the top
here for the oven to set on and then I'm gonna come up around all three sides of
it with brick and that's 18 inches will give me about a probably gonna go about
eighteen and a half inches so I can slide this in and out if I have to all
right let me go find the metal I need to cut all right we are getting there now I
got to cut a piece of metal for the top and then I'm gonna weld like a 1-inch
border around the edge of it just set it over the top of these bricks sort of
hold them in together and then on the top of that metal I'm gonna lay all
those bricks there just hold heat in now let me go cut my other piece of metal be
right back all righty there we have it oh yeah cut this piece of metal here and
then I will there's this little flange around it to hold up so it'll fit over
the brick
you know they get backed up here get it far away from my from it as I can so you
can have a look from top to bottom
much well and that is just about cooking height right there and this I'm sure
some heat will get up here so you keep something warm up here if I had more
bricks I'd build this up just a little more so you'd have a a warm spot maybe
keep some bread warm or something all right tomorrow I'm gonna cook something
I guess the first thing I need to do is see how hot that I can get that oven
with just a normal fire and the silver fire survivor all right um I want to put
this up in the next video you see will be let me firing this thing up and
cooking in it thanks for watching hey y'all I took this back apart about half
way cuz uh overnight I thought of a minor design change I cut these slots
here above the rocket stove just so here's what I don't want I don't want
the flames to directly hit the bottom of this because I'm afraid at some points
this this gets so hot that it might affect this cheap thin I mean this ain't
much thicker than a coke can so I I just cut some slots in there to get most of
the heat through but not the flame is directly hitting the bottom of it so now
I'm fixing to put it back together and I have another minor design change that
I'll show you when I when I finish off the top it's gonna be sort of a capstone
actually what it's going to be is one of these blocks another one that I have on
the very top since I'm not mortaring these together I want some weight
pushing down on everything because the heat on this
metal is going to flex it and I don't want to knock bricks off I don't want it
to warp so bad that that these walls will you know be in danger of falling so
all right I'm fixing to put it all back together now and then fire it up there
we go and on the top of this I can put my
silver Fire Scout and cook up there on that well well this is cooking a roast
or whatever all right now the next thing is to fire it up and see what I'm not
sure that temperature gauge is right so I have a meat thermometer that I'm gonna
get and there's a hole up up here then I'm gonna stick it in anyway and just to
double-check that thermometer that's on there so all right that's the next thing
is to light this up well the thermometer I had that I had planned on sticking in
that hole up there it only goes up to 190 200 degrees and this is already up
to 325 or so let me tap on this it's almost 350 now and I this hasn't
been going very long I just started to DUP but already the bricks are warm on
the outside this this is warm to the touch so I really think this is gonna
work so I yes I already have two 350 here let
me tap on it again yeah it's over 350 now it's like 360 I'm very very happy
with this very happy so I'll tell you what I'm gonna put this video up and
this is it for me today it's afternoon I'm gonna go get probably a chicken and
I'm gonna roast the chicken in here tomorrow or maybe I'll make a meatloaf I
haven't decided yet hey you know what if you have a vote
what you'd like to see me cooking this oven yeah
chime in you know meatloaf or a roasted chicken it's up to you whoever I'll
tally up the votes and tonight and that's what I'll do tomorrow anyway this
has been a nice project I really enjoyed doing this and I feel better now having
a an extremely viable and capable option of cooking you know I can still pull
this out slides right out and I can cook on it so you know I still got that
option I can bake and now I have a flat place to put my silver Fire Scout and
cook on on top of that so I'm really glad I did this so thank you for
watching and we'll see you tomorrow don't forget to vote on Meat Loaf or
chicken all right last clip 450 degrees I'm very satisfied with that 450 degrees
I think that's pretty much higher than anything you don't want to cook at and
the the flame is starting to die down a little now so now at this point what I
would do is just put one stick at a time on them coals okay this time I really
mean it see you tomorrow
Update I forgot tomorrow my friend Duane is going in for surgery for a heart
bypass might be a triple bypass and could be a quadruple bypass they won't
know till they get in there and poke around
so I actually probably won't get to cook in this for a couple three days and so
in the meantime go ahead and throw your your vote in the Hat meat loaf or
roasted chicken anyway Duane's going in for surgery tomorrow so right before he
goes in I'm gonna put a video up using my phone asking y'all for prayers when
he's when he's in there so I will see you tomorrow briefly and I'll get back
to work in a couple days making something thanks y'all