Truck Exhaust Pipe

Note the truck exhaust pipe used as an oven chimney, but even more interesting, the support that the oven rests on is also the oven floor. Definitely not an efficient oven, but certainly a curiosity piece.
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Bread Oven Brittany

A very old bread oven in the Brittany region of France that I'm sure has not been used for a long time. Note the vegetation growing on top. www.kervor.com/prices.htm

Bread oven in Brittany with tree on top. www.selectcottages.com/brittany-lachaumiere.asp

Rounded Oven Base

Some very clear photos of earth oven construction. Note the rounded base, made with blocks readily available at Big Box or small suppliers.
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/4313/earth-oven-construction-part-2
This link should show part 1 as well. Note the lava rocks used for insulating the base. In Guatemala we used something we called "puma," but I think that's how you say mountain lion in Spanish. Anyway, the material was volcanic in origin.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/breadninja/1443314822/in/set-72157602168287743/
Here's a little bit of commentary from the person who built the oven. Breadnerd.
http://www.flickr.com/gp/7541655@N03/aX31kR

A rounded base made with unmortared bricks. www.eriding.net/media/romans.shtml

Mud Oven Morocco

Note the absolute attention the baker is giving to a single flatbread. The bread is baked, not on the floor, but on an elevated platform. The oven is fired with twigs and grass and a bellows is used to intensify the flame. See the video on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_fMWRs_NgIo&feature=related

Pizza Ovens

Here's a video of a fairly elaborate Alan Scott style pizza oven. The video makes the construction process look a lot easier than it actually is. A simple earth oven is so much easier to construct.
The builder in the video is a very organized person, and his organizational skills manifest themselves in the beautiful way he keeps his pizza dough. Watch the video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qnMOf9zlrs&feature=related

If you watch this video, you'll see a very handy ash dump. YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTWGeyew5oI&feature=related

Bread From The Sun

Solar ovens are a whole new area for me, and some of the contraptions look like alien creations. Not to be taken lightly, solar ovens are being made by some very serious people.

Apparently it really is possible to bake bread inside a solar oven. Check out this video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BIDYQfRVL6s

Check out this homemade solar oven that will also bake bread.
photo of man next to his oven. Making A Solar Oven


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Earth Oven Vulnerability

www.flickr.com/.../in/set-72157594304951199/

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.
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