This is part 6 of a multi-part video by Kurt Gardella. Kurt is affiliated with the Northern New Mexico College adobe construction program. He offers workshops in building a traditional New Mexican horno. Kurt also offers online workshops. This is a brilliant video. Anyone interested in building an earth oven (clay, cob, adobe, argile) will…
Category: Bread
Roundboy Outdoor Products
Roundboy sells oven kits for ovens that sit on a metal stand. I provide the link to the dimensions page for one of their barrel-shaped models. What I want to point out is the 14″ roof height. When looking at oven kits be aware that the roof height tells you what the oven is designed…
Kiko Denzer Earth Oven Book
No matter what kind of an oven you decide on in the end, you must purchase Kiko Denzer’s book on clay ovens. Kiko brings a level of imagination to building ovens that is second to none. He offers you easy instructions for making an oven out of the earth — an oven that can cost…
English Horse-breads circa 1600 to 1800
Download the PDF to my article in Gastronomica on the breads fed to race horses in England beginning in the 1590s. It turns out that for centuries the most detailed instructions for making bread published in English were written for horses. Gervase Markham, who is well known amongst culinary historians as the author of the…
A Simple Moroccan Oven
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fMWRs_NgIo&feature=related This is one of the most extraordinary baking videos posted on You Tube. The baker, a Moroccan woman, is sitting in front of small oven fired with brush. The bread is baked on a griddle within the oven. She crisps the puffed up bread by building up flames to radiate heat down on to…
Saj Bread with Recipe
The sound track is awful — a solo piano piece that grates on my nerves — and the baker is a professional from an odd kind of restaurant where he wears latex gloves while baking. This said, there is a recipe (modern, it includes sugar and is made with the whitest of white flour), and…
Extensible Dough — Shraq
What I find remarkable about this Bedouin bread is the rolling out — or pushing out — by hand and then the stretching by tossing. The tossing is the basic pizza dough technique but this bread is incredibly thin. Note that the griddle is not evenly hot, it is cooler at the top, and so…
Introduction to Baking Bread in Hot Sand
httpv://youtu.be/Yq7blWjmnFg This video offers an introduction to baking bread in sand heated by a fire of brushwood. This particular version is made by a Berber but it is a technique that is widespread in desert regions. The YouTube videos documenting the method tend not to offer much information on the dough and how one version…
2 Vidoes Bread Baked in Hot Sand
These two videos offer a good look at what the bread looks like while other videos offer more detail on how to handle the fire and heat the sand. httpv://youtu.be/QogjISQxcr0 This video starts towards the end of the process of creating an oven of hot embers and sand. We first see the bread after it…
Scraping Sand from Sand-baked Bread
This video is in two parts. The first video offers a particularly clear look at exactly how the fire is scraped away from the flatbread and clarifies that the bread is baked in hot sand, not on embers or even in this case a mixture of embers and sand. The tourist who is filming asks…
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