Earth Oven Vulnerability

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Earth ovens tend to get beat up a lot right around the opening. This happens when wood is tossed into the oven or the peel scrapes against the side. The photos show three earth ovens, two reinforced with brick, the other without.

Sisters Bake Bread

Sisters Aloysia and Margareta prepare to remove bread from the wood-fired oven.
The sisters may be contacted at their website www.stemma.org

Tandoors

Turkmenistan Mud Oven (Tandoor). Note the branding. Photo by Ekahau

Excellent video of tandoor bread baking. Very, very atmospheric.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=moWvUYh2T5o&feature=related

And still another video of tandoor baking. Sometimes you see two, long metal chop sticks ( I have no idea what they're called) inserted into the oven to remove the bread, but in this video, the baker stabs the bread to remove it with one hooked chop stick. Watch and listen to the woman slapping the dough. It's done the very same way in Guatemala except in Guatemala they're using corn masa. In a previous post you can see a Guatemalan making tortillas.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YbBiB6rF-oE&feature=related

Ghana Mud Oven

A bakery in Koforidua. This is the largest bakery in the city; all of the baking is done outdoors in clay ovens.
Looks to me like they're baking pullman type loaves.
Photo from the Holy Spirit Missionary Assoc.
mail@hsma.net

Acoma Pueblo Mud Oven

Note how beautifully the oven integrates with the building.
http://www.smu.edu/isem/Hummingbird/July22/july22.html

The photo that shows the oven door is from:
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1498197544077997123EcPCFA

Navajo bread oven
cfannewmexico.org/navajo.htm

Not sure where these hornos are from

Bread Ovens Iraq

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Najaf Mud Oven

A displaced Iraqi woman cooks in a mud oven in a camp for displaced people in the central Shiite holy city of Najaf, 20 July 2007. About 9000 Iraqi families fled to the central city most of them from Baghdad, where they search for safety in camps for displaced people according to official sources from Najaf. The sources said that the increasing numbers of displaced people who are converging to the city's camps will soon suffer from a shortage of food and water supplies.

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

Baghdad Mud Oven

A woman bakes bread known locally as "Khobez" using a traditional mud oven in a village in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad August 20, 2007.
Photo from Reuters Pictures.

Iraqi woman and her bread oven

Posted by Brian Jones, Wednesday, October 15, 2003

thecompassedge.net/archives/archive-102003.shtml

"Bread is eaten every day in Iraq. In cities people either buy it directly from bakers or mix their own dough and take it to the baker for cooking. In the villages you have to make your own bread every day. People use the tanour, the traditional bread oven, to make their bread. It's fired up with dried cow dung called Mutaal and the dough is slapped between the hands until it becomes a wide round flat pancake before being slapped onto the inside wall of the tanour where it's cooked. It's incredibly good and there is nothing quite like the taste of fresh bread anywhere but particularly here."

New Zealand Masonry Oven

It's impossible to not be stunned by the contrast between these ovens and, for example, the one in Timbuktu.


Oven by Ben Woollcombe
bensart1.homestead.com/breadovens.html

London Mud Ovens

Here are some temporary, very funky, mud ovens that were made in
Brockwell Park, South London for an urban green fair in 2007.
Note how the ovens are sitting on plywood supported by concrete block. Even the ubiquitous blue tarp is present to protect the grass.
Urban Green Fair 2007

Pakistan Mud Oven

Girl makes nan bread in mud oven. Maybe the rooster has it all figured out, but it appears that the oven is just beneath a culvert pipe. Not a very good arrangement, but perhaps that was the only possibility.
"Omaha Rapid Response sent a team in March to the northwest tribal areas of Pakistan, up in the mountains, to continue the ongoing relief effort we have been supporting there. Our primary efforts included the purchasing and distributing of over 6,000 fruit trees, chickens and chicken cages, which allow these people to grow food and generate income. ORR isn't just giving food, we are helping these people grow their own." Apparently this photo was taken by someone from Omaha Rapid Response.

Moroccan Mud Oven - Outside of Casablanca

Interesting video of Moroccan woman firing her oven with hay and making flatbreads.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9qJbengCdk