flickr.com/photos/I really like this photo of a woman making flat breads on a steel plate over an open fire. I have baked many, many flat breads this way, but I've also skipped the steel plate and placed the flat bread in a barbecue basket and held it over the flame. That works really well. I have a photo of this, and I'll search for it.
www.whats4eats.com/Making pitas, also known as Syrian bread or pocket bread is quite easy. Just make sure your oven is hot, and if your flat bread is uniformly shaped and about 1/4" thick, it will miraculously fulfill its destiny in the oven. Looks like there is a firebox below the oven proper.
commons.wikimedia.org/Making flat breads is much more leisurely than making raised loaves in an earth oven. More about this later.
www.touregypt.net/Old style Egyptian bread oven. Certainly looks enormous
Note how the oven is being fired from below the floor with brush and dried grasses
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Ancient oven design, yet oven is being fired with propane.
3 comments:
This post is great. Yum, I'm going to try pita bread soon! And wow, that Egyptian bread oven is ginormous. I have a blog called "Todo Masa", which to me means it's all dough...or all one as someone once said. I am in the process of building an oven right now...check it out! :)
I still love this post. The images are great. Thank you Breadhunter.
I too, am very fond of these images. These are not the images we're used to seeing that come out of the Middle East.
Stu
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