How to make a tandoor

Make-tandoor oven can be initially made of brick, which is described in our article "How to build a tandoor". In the embodiment, the inner part constructed tandyra clay daubed with a straw. And you can make a tandoor "reverse" - first to bring him inside, and then the top lined with brick. It did so in the old days the tandoor.

For tandoor old barrels need for old technology. Hoops that hold it back, it is necessary to weaken. The barrel is filled with water and left for five days, the tree swollen. Then water is poured, and barrel rolls over to dry. After drying the inside of the barrel thickly smeared with oil.

For as long as a barrel stands with water, and then dry and impregnated with oil, prepared and matured a special clay mixture. Take the 8 parts of clay and 2 parts of sheep or camel hair. Water is added so that the mass has become plastic. This mixture is stirred necessarily every day.

Then, from clay molded sausages long diameter of 6 cm - flattens them to a thickness of 2-3 cm from these flat ribbons clay-laid blanks entire inner barrel portion from the bottom.. Each upper workpiece should overlap the bottom half. Near the mouth of the barrel clay ribbons are superimposed in several layers, so that the upper diameter future tandyra was not more than 0.5 m Inner clay part carefully smoothed with a wet cloth -. So will not be visible seams and the entire surface becomes uniformly smooth. Barrel inside clay dried in the sun for one month. During this time, the clay starts to lag behind the tree, which has been treated with oil. After drying drums removed metal hoops. And wooden planks loosely disconnect from a large pitcher.

And now the foundation of the tandyard can be installed on the foundation and put the brick. How to do it correctly, you will see in the figure below, where the clay jug is drawn under the designation "1", which you did from the barrel.

Make a tandyard with your own hands - the thing is troublesome. But how much pleasure can then be obtained, aged fragrant fresh pellets, baked in a homely clay stove. In addition to the tortilla, in Tandara, you can fry any products if it is to provide mounted skewers or a removable grille.