Mud oven at Kongsi House 3.0
2 weeks ago, Kongsi Co-op invited Pop and Chee from Penang (check out Project M.A.R.S. ) to have a workshop guiding us to make our own mud oven. The workshop was quite well received, we were full with 20 participants. After some introductions of themselves, participants and the project, we started the hands on part right away. They brought along fire bricks, stalks and glass wool for the workshop. After laying a layer of red bricks on the oven table (we built it a year ago), following by fire bricks which will be the floor of the oven. Putting on sand as the mould of the mud oven. It will determine the size of the interior of the oven. The sand will be removed in 2 weeks time, or as soon as the mud dried. We need to pat the sand to be firmed so that it will stay in shape. Gotong-royong vibe. Because we have so many of us, we could finish making the oven within 4 hours. The mud "bread" -mixture of mud and dry stalks (mostly from rice) in ratio 1:1. Putting the mud onto the s...
