Matza

www.kumah.org/archives/2007_03_01_index.html

Photos by Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times

An Orthodox man is employed to inspect the process of baking of unleavened bread (Matza) for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover in a religious community near Kiryat Gat April 13, 2008.

Women at a bakery near Kiryat Gat kneaded dough for unleavened bread for Passover. A judge has ruled that leavened bread can be sold during Passover.
To read the article, go here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/world/middleeast/18israel.html

Note how the bottom of the oven opening is expanded, allowing ample room to slide the matzas in and out. These matzas look nothing like the packaged stuff found in U.S. stores.

The yellow photo shows matzas being made in Chicago.

Yehonaton Levy removes baked matzo from the oven at Chicago’s Shmura Matzah Factory in Skokie, Ill.
Knight Ridder Tribune photo
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Yukon Oven

No matter how obscure the place, in fact the more obscure the better, you're sure to find an earth oven.
Date: ca. 1930
Fonds/Collection: Claude and Mary Tidd fonds
Photographer: Claude Tidd
Format: b&w print
Original Size: 7 x 10 cm
Subject Headings:
Camp - Pelly River area

Flatbreads

Here's a baker in Amman taking a flatbread from the side of the oven where it has baked.
The golden looking flatbreads are from Khotan, and the flatbreads with tea pots are from Uyghur.
How's your geography?

Timbuktu, Mali Mud Oven

www.britannica.com/ebc/art-17334/Woman-baking...

Note how beautifully this astonishing landscape is integrated. The oven, the peel, the woman, the breads. It would be hard for one to improve upon the tableau.

tabisite.com/gallery_af/mali/tben.shtml

As long as we're in exotic areas of the world, here are some oven photos in
Timbuktu Mali
http://www.britannica.com/ebc/art-17334

Gas Oven?

Here are three photos from a bakery in Uzbekistan. I couldn't figure out who took the photos, but here's what the photographer said: They basically mold out the non (I think it's a typo and he or she means "nan." into a disc and slap it up into the inside of a beehive shaped oven, where it sticks until it is done. Then you collect your fresh hot bread!
I think the masonry oven is fired with gas, not wood. If you look closely you should be able to see gas tubes. I don't see any ashes or any trace of wood.

Oven Bases

Oven bases can be made from rock, block, brick, mud, or as we have seen, ovens can be built directly on the earth. In these photos you'll see two ovens, one built on logs and the other built on saw horses.
Unless your oven floor is well insulated, it is possible to char oven bases made of wood.

Jamestown Oven

In this oven a Jamestown woman baked bread over 300 years ago. It appears to have been in use between 1650 and 1690.

Oven height #4

This low oven looks like it contributes to back strain.

Correct Baking Height #3

Who says there is a "correct" baking height.
This oven could be built in a couple of hours.

Correct Baking Height #2

Quick improvisation to get young lady up high enough to bake.