I just finished building my 36" Mattone Cupola and am starting the curing process.
I had a question on preparing the cooking surface. I remember seeing in a PDF instructions on using a whole bag of flour to fill in all the small spaces between the fire bricks and then lighting several fires to bake it in, but I can’t find any reference to that right now and am curious as to how to fill in the small gaps between the fire bricks.
Should I do the slow curing process by lighting a small fire every day and then once finished with that dump a whole bag of flour in there to fill in the spaces between the bricks?
I took those out of the instructions - The ash from the curing fires is going to fill those loose joints and after the final / 6th curing fire, tap those hearth firebrick w/ a rubber mallet and lock them all into place. But make sure the fire is out first! Only do this once the oven has cooled down.
