Basic Question About a New Oven

Chris Crawford

Chris Crawford

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Hey everybody. I just bought an Evenheat KF 18, and as I was reading the manual I noticed that it said not to place the oven on a combustible surface. This may be a dumb question, but would a wooden workbench be considered a combustible surface?

The surface of my bench is chipboard. Should I place some other surface between the chipboard and the oven? If so, what would you recommend.

Thanks! -Chris
 
The best place for a HT oven is on a metal rolling shop cart. When not in use, just roll it to a corner. A lot of folks use the one from HF. Store the HT foil, tongs, gloves, and other stuff on the shelves underneath it.

If you place it on a bench top, the back should be at least 6" from the wall and the bench top should be covered with a sheet of fire-board or a layer of fire bricks. HT ovens get pretty darn hot. At a minimum, I would put a piece of sheet metal under and behind it.

Another trick that helps a lot is to wrap the HT oven with a layer of the foil faced insulation often called "water heater jacket". Leave plenty of room around the controller for airflow, but the sides and back will benefit from an extra layer.
 
I just got the 22.5 and like Stacy said above, planned on using a HF shop cart. I vastly underestimated the size of this thing.
I ended up building an extention off the front of my workbench to hold it with about 10 inches of of space on each side. My bench is just plywood, but I have some leftover cement board out at my cabin that I'm picking up this weekend to cover the bench top and wall.
 
I put it on a wooden rolling cart, but lined the top of the cart with steel flashing so anything hot that falls out of the oven will not land directly on the wood.
 
Thanks guys! That's just what I needed to know. I had no idea that the oven would get so hot on the outside. I went to Harbor Freight and picked up a small metal rolling cart that the oven will fit on. Thanks again.
 
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