Wood, gas and thermal mass

Q&A with with Daniel Young of Young & Foodish, Daniel asks the questions and I get carried away with the answers. How did Bertha’s get started?  Bertha’s what we christened our first oven, a Sheffield Steel, brick lined Garden Oven where we began the...

We’ve started smoking

Bertha’s been feeling a little left out since the Berthamobile came on the scene, so to make up for the lack of action we thought we’d experiment with some hot smoking. We had an event down in Dorset over the weekend and to link in with the local seafood festival we...

Building a Billy

Last weekend was my dad’s birthday and our family converged on the ‘Norf’ to celebrate. By conventional standards this was one of those ‘big birthdays’ although given my dad insists he stopped counting when he hit 40 we’ll call this...

Introductions – Part 1

Everyone meet Bertha, Bertha meet everyone. Here she is, our outdoor oven, handmade in the UK from Sheffield Steel and a bit of a looker even if we do say so ourselves. I was originally planning to build myself an outdoor oven, I’d even downloaded plans from the...