Firing Your Oven Once you‚Äôve properly cured your oven, you’re ready to fire it for cooking.
	Always start with dry kindling placed at the front of the oven. Never use chemicals or starter fluids; you will not need them. Once the fire is going, add small pieces of wood to build the fire. You want to raise the temperature slowly, so avoid building a huge fire that pours out of the mouth of the oven. We recommend adding large chunks of wood (see photo below, left) to the fire once it’s going strong. Add these chunks and start moving the fire to the back of the oven—about 20 minutes after the fire is going. You’ll notice the oven Dome turning black. As the temperatures rise and more heat is stored in the Dome, it will turn a whitish grey. Your goal is to heat the oven in a way that the entire Dome turns whitish grey.