[Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol 52, Issue 11

[ajheggie at gmail.com]

[Default] On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:56:07 -0000,neiltm at uwclub.net wrote:

>On 11 Dec 2014 at 12:00, stoves-request at lists.bioenergylists.org wrote:
>
>> Traditionally in UK bread was baked by indirect heat, typically in
>> bread ovens which were first fired with bundles of twigs and then once
>> the brickwork was hot enough the ashes were raked out and the loaves
>> sealed into the hot oven until cooked by the residual heat. 
>
>Or pushed to one side once pyrolysis was complete as a continuing source 
>of heat from the char, and the oven admitting just enough air to sustain 
>it.  A lower heat retaining body mass can be utilised then.

This makes good sense Neil, although my wife's family had an inglenook
with a bread oven on the side (and a smoking chamber above) I never
did see it used.

AJH