How to make a taboon oven

The taboon oven is one of the traditional ovens that humans have used for centuries, and it is still used today in places where traditional cooking methods are present. It was shaped like an arched cave, and food was inserted through its opening. These ovens were distinguished by their ability to produce extremely beautiful baked goods. The following is a method for making a taboon oven.

How to make a taboon oven

To implement the method of making a taboon oven, you must bring the tools that will help you in construction, including:

1. Taboon oven building materials

You will need construction sand, perlite, or even vermiculite (used in agriculture), clay, water, coarse crushed stone gravel, wood chips or some kind of vegetable fiber, building bricks, along with wooden poles or a wooden table for the base of the taboon oven, cement for the base bricks (you can do without it if you just use wood for the base), screws for the base wood, newspaper, and firewood for the inner oven.

2. How to make a taboon oven

First, you will build the oven base. You will use wood to make a base that is one meter high and has a diameter of up to 90 cm. Alternatively, you can make a table that can withstand heavy weights. Here, you can use bricks to make the base by placing them in a circular shape with the diameter and weight you desire. Place the stone gravel in the middle, and leave a small space on the surface for pouring the amount of construction sand.

Next, prepare the thermal insulation that is suitable for the oven. This is done by choosing a wooden base to make a wooden frame with a height of 14 cm and a thickness of 1.9 cm. You must mix sand with cement. The goal is to have a quantity of sand about 6 times the amount of cement. This is to pour a mixture with a height of 10 cm. A quantity of fine sand is placed on the mixture with a thickness of four centimeters to insulate the oven.
Then you move on to building the oven floor by placing the bricks that are used for the oven floor. You must adjust the bricks to the width of the oven base. It is best to use fire bricks because they are close to the fire.
Next, you start making the inner dome of the taboon oven. Here, you must mark its location on the floor by drawing a circle in the middle and leaving a small space from the front edge to serve as a threshold for the food to come out of. Place sand inside that circle to give you a bell shape with a height of 25 cm or more. You must make sure that the right and left sides are identical in terms of sand. Then, use newspaper over the dome.
The outer dome is made by mixing fine sand with clay, making sure the amount of sand is three times that of clay. All the dry ingredients are mixed together and water is gradually added to ensure a cohesive mixture.
The outer gate is made by cutting the front gate without letting the sand out, and then waiting for the outer dome to dry.
If there is water, use a low flame inside to evaporate the remaining water.
Thus, you can use the oven by lighting a fire for an hour, after which you put the wood inside so that you can place the food in the front part. Thus, you have learned how to make a taboon oven.

How to make a tandoor oven

The tandoor oven is made from loose clay, which is prepared by mixing the clay well and leaving it to ferment. The clay is made into rings with a diameter of 1 meter, a height of 20 cm, and a thickness of 3 cm, and is left to dry.

Then, the rings must be stacked on top of each other to form a skirt and left in the sun to dry.

It is worth noting that there are different sizes of these ovens. Some are large and intended for commercial production, while the smaller sizes are used for domestic purposes.

How to build a stone oven?

The base is built according to your desire in terms of need or size. It is preferable for the size to range from 100 cm to 120 cm. It is preferable for the base to be sturdy in order to withstand different weather factors.
You need a solid ground to build the oven on, and the weight of the stone oven ranges from 1 ton to 4 tons, and the size depends on your desire.
The mold is placed in the middle of the concrete so that the sides and bottom of the horn are equal in size.
It is better to use black basalt stone in the inner layer.
After the kiln is completed, red or yellow bricks must be used to build the outer wall of the kiln.

It is worth noting that the taboon oven has been used in the past for making bread and pastries, as well as for all cooking purposes. There are many sizes of ovens, and it is very easy to learn how to make a taboon oven and implement it in a simple way.